Description
The chart is an interactive lineage map. Dakar School sits at the center, on a timeline that runs from older movements at the top to newer ones at the bottom. The movements that influenced it appear above it, any parallel movements it developed alongside sit on its own row, and the movements it later influenced appear below. Every line is a real, cited connection between two movements: a solid line is an influence historians broadly agree on, and a dashed line is an indirect, parallel, or contested link.
For Dakar School (1960s – 1980s), it traces one movement that shaped it, a well-established link: Modernism.
The Dakar School (French: École de Dakar, lit. 'School of Dakar') is an art movement in Senegal at the dawn of independence, between 1960 and 1974. It was supported by the first Senegalese President Léopold Sédar Senghor and was associated with his cultural policies informed by the larger Négritude movement from the 1930s, which emphasized Black cultural identity and heritage within a modernist framework.
Founding figures commonly associated with this movement included Papa Ibra Tall, Iba N'Diaye, and Pierre Lods. Read more ↗