The earliest photography in Africa can be traced back to the colonial cultural anthropologists of the mid-nineteenth century. The intention at the time was to shock the Western world with imagery of savages. More than a century later and not much has changed.
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A Pioneering African-American Art Force Changes Houston and Museums Everywhere: Why Isn’t She Better Known?
Alvia Wardlaw, a Wellesley grad and UT’s First African-American Phd In Art History, and is Director of the University Museum at TSU. Why is she still one of America’s most under-known Curators?
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A ‘Sex and the City’ for African Viewers
Let’s get this out of the way up front: “An African City,” the steamy Ghanaian web series about five young women looking for love in Accra, is an unabashed rip-off of “Sex and the City.”
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South Africa’s Boldest Women in Music on the Ultimate ‘Girl Power’ Anthems
Women’s Month is officially underway in South Africa. It’s a time to reflect on the phenomenal, kick-ass women in our lives and throughout history.
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Celebrating 8 of the Most Influential Black South African Women Writers
We’re just a few days away from Women’s Month in South Africa––a time to reflect on the strong, courageous and brilliant women of South Africa’s past and present.
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Ugandan Photographer Sarah Waiswa Wins Prestigious Recontres d’Arles 2016 Discovery Award
Ugandan-born, Nairobi-based photographer Sarah Waiswa recently won the Recontres d’Arles 2016 Discovery Award for her photography project: “ Stranger in Familiar Land.”
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Who’s to Blame in South Sudan?
Colonial rule ended in Sudan in 1956. As the British and Egyptian flags were lowered, a struggle for power between rival factions was already under way. Fifty-five years later Sudan was partitioned and a new nation came into existence: South Sudan, whose population had spent decades waging a succession of wars against the regime in Khartoum, was now an independent country, the world’s most recent, recognized by the UN, the African Union (AU), and Sudan itself.
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Meet Osborne Macharia’s Club of Elite Little People Fighters
Kenyan architect by trade-turned-digital conceptual photographer Osborne Macharia has quite the imagination.
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