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Greatest AfricansAfricaJoburgSouth AfricaGreatest AfricansCities all over the world are facing major crises – from failing services and mounting inequalities, to climate emergencies. And arts and culture have a surprisingly critical role in tackling these kind of urban challenges. Festivals create exciting spaces to experience art, music, culture and film. At their best, they perform a transf...
Towards the end of the 19th century, Britain, Germany, France and other European nations set about dividing and sharing Africa to their ominous tastes in the iconoclastic Berlin Conference. Britain, though their Imperial British East Africa Company had their sights firmly on a rich plain of land we now know as Kenya.
Mike Katihabuga and Djamal Ntagara are two visual artists who met in Rwanda in 2017. Katihabuga had escaped Burundi at the height of the conflict in 2015. He found refuge in Rwanda and lived in a refugee camp before moving to the capital a year later, to pursue art. The 25-year-old met Djamal, a painter based in Kigali and they bonded ...
“I like to go out and communicate with the common folk of Ethiopia; the peasant, the patriot, the soldier, the traitor, the housewife, the priest, the sheik… it is from the that I learn about my country and people.” Tsegaye Gebre-Medhin was a prominent Ethiopian poet and playwright who sat with a deep sense of duty towards people. His ...
Street art has always been a means of documenting events, dreams, ambitions, and messages. In Egypt, it has spread widely, especially after the revolution, when the art represented the images that the new generation wanted for the future. It was largely influenced by the history and the intense political situation. Despite the continu...
Kenya’s constantly evolving art scene revolves around a number of emerging and world-acclaimed artists predominantly from Kenya and the surrounding East African region, with art spaces clustered around Nairobi and Mombasa. Despite the hi...
A short exhibit about the leading figures who contributed to the development of art in Nigeria during the last century.Ben EnwonwuBen Enwonwu (MBE, NNOM) is a first generation Nigerian painter and sculptor who, being the first Nigerian a...