Culture
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Meet Hamonia Rosales, The Artist Who Painted God As a Black Woman
“The Creation of Adam” is one of the most famous works of art ever created — and one of the…
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Bisi Silva, 56, Bold Curator of Contemporary African Art, Dies
Bisi Silva, an adventurous curator who, with her own money, founded a nonprofit art gallery and education center in Lagos,…
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Renaming South Africa: Es’kia Mphahlele with Zim Ngqawana and Lefifi Tladi
THE debate on renaming South Africa, a geographical description and not a name, has been one raging for years. Here…
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Happy Birthday Bob Marley, Born 6 February 1945
February 6, 2019 marks what would been the 74th birthday of Bob Marley. Nearly 38 years after his cancer-related death…
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DECOLONIZING OUR CULTURE: WHY PAN-AFRICANISM NEEDS ONE LANGUAGE
Author and African intellectual Ngugi wa Thiong’o says focus should be placed on decolonising the language of education. Africans can…
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Using the Beauty of Beads to Raise Issues Such as Violence and Racism
Byby VICTORIA L. VALENTINE via http://www.culturetype.com IN THE HANDS of Joyce J. Scott, the possibilities of glass beads are endless. She uses beads…
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Your Ancestry Had It’s Own Book
Your Ancestry Had It’s Own Book It just wasn’t written down, and given a name, sold, and expressed as the…
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We Remember Vuyisile Mini Hanged on November 6th, 1964.
By Pinky Khoabane Jazz vocalist and composer Sathima Bea Benjamin pays tribute to Winnie Mandela MUSIC has always been a…
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History Of African Fabrics And Textiles
Very often, Africans are depicted on old pictures as naked people, walking around without any clothing. This seems to be quite…
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The First Sound
The first sound we hear as embryos in our mothers’ wombs, incredibly forming into humans, is the sound of the…
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