As decolonial scholar Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o argues, the struggle for liberation must begin with the re-Africanisation of the mind ...

The repatriation of African art is gaining momentum, but a number of highly important and symbolic pieces remain in the hands of the continent’s former colonisers. Europe is re-evaluating its colonial ...

These artefacts were not merely art pieces; they held deep ... artefacts but still retains thousands of African cultural objects taken during colonial times. Most recently, despite the Netherlands ...

Each one of these beautiful South African museums not only offer aesthetic value, but also incredible cultural depth. Take a ...

As a scholar of literature and visual cultures, I am fascinated with this epic engagement with colonial archives and the history of big game hunting in Africa since the 1700s. Even though the show ...

Known collectively as the Benin Bronzes, the objects — on display in several museums in the US and Europe — are often viewed as a case study in colonial ... in its Art of Africa Gallery.

Especially focused on the period from the mid-eighteenth century on, his interests extend to the colonial and contemporary ... and difficulties of art and culture with a certain but often anxious ...

He deconstructed what he called “the colonial library”: the accounts of Africa by Europeans whose aim, he said, was to further colonialism. By Adam Nossiter Valentin-Yves Mudimbe, a Congolese ...

If the colonial state used maps, borders, and violence to control African bodies and minds, African art has long been the counter-force an archive of freedom, cosmology, and critique. And within ...