The buzzing excitement around 43-year-old Taofick Okoya’s newly developed Queens of Africa –Black Nigerian/African Dolls is rapidly growing. Okoya tells the story of how in 2007, while shopping to buy Read More..
Slideshow
The Art of Calligraphy: Faiza Bayou’s Eternity Series
The elegantly rich art of calligraphy has its place in the Arabic and/ Islamic culture. As stated by historians, the art of calligraphy, including its trade, was born in the Read More..
Letter from Senegal: bowled over
By 3pm in the sandy lanes of Kaolack the heat is unforgiving. It is hard to tell if it is more uncomfortable to move or to remain still. Pigs, chickens Read More..
The Ivory Trade Kills People Too
Behind every ivory trinket made and sold is a trail of human suffering and exploitation in Africa. If you buy ivory, you kill people. This is the new reality in Read More..
Selam Festival Addis
In its fourth year, Selam Festival Addis [Selam: meaning peace in Ethiopia’s official language] on January 17 and 18 opened its 2015 festival to a packed Floral Tropical Garden, in Read More..
Keyezua’s Stone Orgasms: A Visual Exploration of the Ritual of Mutilating the Female Body
Women, for centuries, have been living under societal pressure as doctrines and external agents define their bodies, outside of their own claim. Women have been made strangers to their own Read More..