Culture, Arts & Identity
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Meet Disney’s First African-American Animator, Floyd Norman
If no one ever told you no, would you think to limit yourself? Floyd Norman's peers were surprised when he…
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Lagos, City of Hustle, Builds an Art ‘Ecosystem
West Africa’s new art destination is a sprawling megacity with a generation of artists, gallerists and collectors powering the scene.…
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The devastating effects of Aids in Botswana
The media wrote about the disease Aids in 1985, for the first time in Botswana. One man was tested HIV…
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Africa’s forgotten empires
Africa’s relationship with the wider world continues to be understood largely through colonialism. But before this came centuries of contact…
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Horror and hope: paintings from Zaïre
An exhibition from a few years ago gathered rarely seen works by leading Congolese artist Tshibumba Kanda-Matulu, who depicted the country’s brutal…
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Berbers
Berbers or Amazighs are an ethnic group indigenous to North Africa, primarily inhabiting Algeria, northern Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, northern Niger, Tunisia, Libya and a part of western Egypt. Berbers are distributed in an area…
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‘A white family raised me – I learned to love being black’
Gina Atinuke Knight’s white mum loved her, but her childhood in a white family meant it took her years to…
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Prada Is the Latest Perpetrator to Peddle Blackface
Here we are, on the cusp of 2019, and major retailers are still playing dumb about racial stereotypes and caricatures.…
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Christianity Originated From Ancient Egyptian Mystic Sect
Professor Godini G. Darah of Department of English and Literary Studies, Delta State University, Abraka, has argued that Egyptian Mystery…
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Turning Junk into Art
John Kasongo is a Congolese scrap metal artist and art dealer based in the tourist town of Hartbeespoort, in the…
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Why are you not ready to say we found love online?
“There is not a morsel of me that wants to say we met online.” This is the sentiment of a…
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South African Actress to Star in First African Netflix Series
Pearl Thusi will star in Queen Sono, Netflix’s first original series from Africa, Channel24 reports. “This was a dream of mine…
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What My Life-Threatening Battle With Fibroids Taught Me
For most women, the chance of developing uterine fibroids at some point in their life is very likely. In fact,…
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Ujamaa Books
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Aretha Franklin: Close-Up (1968)
https://youtu.be/vp-onYykNOg 1968 TV news special chronicling the extraordinary rise of Soul singer Aretha Franklin. Features tons of candid footage at…
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