Testaments to the Beautyful Ones brings together eight photographers and six writers to bear witness and pay tribute to the unflinching insistences on life on the African continent. Situated within the discursive tensions between the enduring postcolonial disappointments registered in Ayi Kwei Armah’s iconic 1968 novel The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born and the assertive hopefulness of Njideka Akunyili Crosby’s series of photographic transfer-based paintings The Beautyful Ones , this…