The Activist Collector: An African American Woman in Pre-Apartheid South Africa, is a collection formed by Newark resident Lida Clanton Broner during her extraordinary nine-month journey and its exhibitionary afterlives in the US.

Christa Clarke is an independent curator/art historian and Senior Advisor at the Center for Curatorial Leadership. Previously she was Senior Curator, Arts of Global Africa at the Newark Museum of Art, where her work was supported with major grants from the Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment of Humanities. During her sixteen-year tenure at Newark, she organized numerous exhibitions on topics ranging from men’s fashion to Nigerian modernism and established Newark’s significant collection of modern and contemporary African art, including major commissions by Yinka Shonibare CBE, Simone Leigh and Odili Odita. Clarke was curator of African art at the Neuberger Museum of Art from 1999-2002 and has also served as consulting curator at Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Smith College Museum of Art, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Williams College Museum of Art, and the Memphis Brooks Museum.