Art & Culture Magazines In Africa

 If we widen the scope, I We looked at the east African based magazine: Tangaza. Now I'd like to look at the magazines in Africa that are based on Art&Culture, although the one I want to discuss is arts Africa magazine which you can find here.

I will be doing specifically an analysis on codes and conventions as well as elements on the covers of the Arts Africa magazine monthly issues.

ISSUE 05 (find here)

 

• The use of colour seems to be the most prominent thing  that is seen first although the masthead is in black and white perhaps to draw attention to the main image.
• there is a barcode present 
• there is a price bar
• there is an issue date present
• the main image seems to have a meaning towards it and has some cultural undertones aswell
• The Masthead is a good looking font for this genre

ISSUE 10 (find here)

• There is clearly a motif being pushed here the conotations are many
• the lack of colour and the use of B&W seems to be an intentional choice perhaps to show how the life and colour has been drained out of the subject in the main image
• the magazine description mentions the "Western Civilisation’s rise to global dominance may be considered as the single most important phenomenon of the past five centuries"
• the use of the money or currency tangled in the hair could connotate the entanglement of African countries in debt toward western and foreign nations this is apart of composition.
• there is an accent colour pink used in the mast head as well as the text on the bottom
• there is the presence of the barcode,price,issue date
• there is the buzzword "US" perhaps demanding a collective call to action
• Use of the Masthead to accentute the accent colour also on the page numbers is nice