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We spoke with six photographers from the continent’s recent vanguard of image-making about their visions of Africa past, present and future As its title suggests, the scope of A World In Common: Contemporary African Photography is vast. The expansive recent exhibition at Tate Modern brings together 36 multigenerational artists whose work explicates, shapes, and reinterprets Africa’s diverse cultures and historical narratives. Tracing these threads across photography, film, and audio, the show spans the continent’s many geographies, cultures and time zones to present a vision of Africa past, present and future that's as nuanced because it is prodigious.  “Given the vast number of nations on the African continent, the aim wasn’t necessarily to ‘represent’ each...