IN southern Africa, townships were built as segregated urban zones for black people. They were created under colonial and white minority rule policies that controlled movement, confined opportunity, ...

wrote of African art as “social life, goodness, beauty, happiness, and the ‘knowledge of the world’”. By denying that the artworks carried knowledge they brought with them, the colonial ...

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

Johannesburg — Much of Africa's cultural treasure was looted during colonial times and has remained ... Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art, told CBS News. She added, however, that ...

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 ...

The world’s most famous collection of African art arrived in Britain after a spectacular act of colonial violence. In February 1897, an expeditionary force of 1,200 British soldiers and African ...

adds to the growing literature on the history of the colonial looting of African art and heritage and the issue of restitution, reappropriation and return. Published by Pluto, the book is edited ...

How do I describe my cultural identity: African American or ... He is taking ownership of the colonial era chests and using them to showcase the great statuary art of his mother's homeland.

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

Crossing the Red Sea, Bruce Onobrakpeya, linocut print,1968 High Museum of Art / National Museum of African Art In the ... extent of accommodating all the colonial masters.” ...

Africa Fashion, now showing at the Portland Art Museum after much-heralded runs ... of Africa” (1960), when 17 African Nations bucked colonial occupation and, as a result, amplified the African ...