Category: AFRICA
Contemporary African Art through a Different Lens
1:54 is one of the largest celebrations of contemporary African art in the world today. Held now in three cities: New York, Marrakech with the largest in London, at the capital’s Somerset house.
African Fashion
V&A – London | The curators have gone to great lengths to make sure the show spans the entire continent with pieces displayed from Morocco to Ghana to South Africa, making it a truly pan African showcase.
Black Queer Voices
By Beverly Andrews June traditionally is the month to celebrate Gay pride but with parts of the world still ravaged by COVID, these celebrations have had to be put on hold for […]
Africa Finds its Cinematic Voice
Africa Finds its Cinematic Voice By Beverly Andrews A contemporary Buddhist leader, Daisaku Ikeda of the lay Buddhist organisation the Soka Gakkai International, once said that the 21st century would be the […]
Palais de Lomé, Togo’s Guggenheim
Palais de Lomé By Beverly Andrews | @BeverlyAAndrews African contemporary art, is now perhaps the most collectable art in the world. Contemporary African art fairs, such as 1-54 and Mali’s capital […]
A Lagos State of Mind…
By Maurice Caldera Maurice Caldera is a British screenwriter/director. He was one of the writers selected by the British Council to participate in the Script Junction programme, a cultural exchange between a […]