Arts/Culture
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Art collection returns to Zimbabwe after 70 years
For the first time in his life, Gift Livingstone Sango, 65, saw a painting by his father depicting Jesus as…
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Jollof Festival 2022: Senegal, Sierra Leone won a tie in Washington D.C
The jollof festival held at Dew Drop Inn, Northeast Washington, D.C., on July 30 ended in a tie between Senegal,…
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Ghana-Fest-New-York takes on its 13th edition with bolder plans
New York will host another edition of the Ghana-Fest-New-York (Ghana-Fest) come August 13 from 12pm – 6pm for the 13th…
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Ghanaian artist, Ibrahim Mahama transform planes into community learning space
Hundreds of meters above the village of Jenakpeng in northern Ghana, a small drone locked its sights on six airplanes…
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Book Review — Threads of Me: Kente for Show and Tell by Erica Asante
The book Threads of Me: Kente for Show and Tell written by Erica Asante is a children’s book about culture. It…
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The Woman King: Viola Davis on Playing Historical Dahomey War General
Originally published on VanityFair by Kristal Brent Zook. An exclusive talk with Davis and director Gina Prince-Bythewood about making a…
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Nigerian historian Toyin Falola discusses the decolonisation of African education
In an interview with Olayinka Oyegbile, a communications scholar at Trinity University in Lagos, Nigeria, Toyin Falola, a historian and…
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Book Bunk Trust led by two women is restoring Kenya’s historical libraries
By modernising everything from the physical infrastructure to the book collections, Book Bunk Trust , a non-profit organisation created in…
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Germany returns to Nigeria first 2 of over 1,100 stolen Benin artifacts
German authorities on Friday, July 1, returned to Nigeria the first two of more than 1,100 priceless sculptures known as…
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Ghana’s Pan African Heritage Museum seeks to reclaim Africa’s history
In a series of letters from African writers to BBC, media consultant and trainer Joseph Warungu writes about plans to…
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