A Survey of African Arts deals with three primary ideas: Africa (the place), Art (human expression, its creation, use and interpretation) and History (over time). The course will look at the forms, ...

Nigeria to open MOWAA in Benin City in Nov. 2025, showcasing West African art and repatriated Benin Bronzes in a world-class ...

Al Jazeera. Dakar Biennale turns abandoned colonial courthouse into a venue for contemporary art and reflection. Posted: November 14, 2024 | Last updated: November 14, 2024 ...

French MPs have unanimously adopted legislation allowing Paris to return to Cote d'Ivoire the Djidji Ayôkwé talking drum, ...

The return of the Benin Bronzes, looted by British colonial forces in 1897, has become a rallying cry for Nigeria’s cultural restitution movement. Despite promises from Western institutions to ...

Station VI: Veronica wipes the face of Jesus, Bruce Onobrakpeya, linoleum block print on rice paper, 1969 High Museum of Art / National Museum of African Art. From medieval frescoes to ...

As French art historian Bénédicte Savoy argues in Africa’s Struggle for Its Art: History of a Postcolonial Defeat, the idea that African countries cannot care for their own cultural treasures ...

Object Details editor Richard, François G. 1976-Contents Materializing Colonial pasts: African archaeological perspectives ... / François G. Richard -- Part 1: Circulations: Scale, Value, Entanglement ...

Tefaf has always shown classical African art, ... Modernism, celebrating those artists “working before and after the decade of national independence from British colonial rule in 1960”.

The museum had sought to transfer ownership of 30 historic bronzes, originally plundered in a bloody colonial raid, to the Kingdom of Benin. The donor asked they be returned to him instead.

With Relooted, the restitution of African art enters the language of video games, as the global debate takes shape in ...

But as is to be expected, in colonial times, ... the Dikan Center, in 2022 further cemented Accra’s status as Africa’s go-to art destination.