The World

The world, through its artists.

At FNB Art Joburg the banners read Own history now. Fifteen African countries shared one floor, and at the BKhz booth Zandile Tshabalala's Black figures sat at ease, in full command of the frame. A continent saying, out loud and in paint, that its history is its own to keep. The week's news, in the hands of the people who make its images.

• The World · Khethiwe Tracy Gumede Own history now: a continent telling its own story At one fair in Johannesburg, fifteen African countries made the same argument: the record of a place belongs to the people who live it.