Jean M. Borgatti, Guest Editor : Portraiture in Africa

Margaret Thompson Drewal : Portraiture and the construction of reality in Yourubaland and Beyond

Marla C. Berns : Pots as people. Yungur Ancestral portraits

Barbara Winston Blackmun : Obas' portraits in Benin

George Nelson Preston : People making portraits making people : living icons of the Akan

Robert T. Soppelsa : A MMA in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (research note)