The wealthy donor who pledged them to the museum asked they be returned to him amid talks to transfer ownership to their African land of origin ...

Over the past 20 years, the Nigerian-born Nkanga, 50, has explored the idea of rock, and by extension the land that sheds it, ...

The museum had sought to transfer ownership of 30 historic bronzes, originally plundered in a bloody colonial raid, to the ...

Zimbabwe is the house of stone, both literally and figuratively, with its very name derived from the ancient stone city of ...

On April 15, the College of Fine Arts hosted a lecture by Dr. Joan Kee, the director of the New York University Institute of Fine Arts.

Fried crickets are among the meagre provisions available at the Touloum refugee camp in Chad on Friday. At least 13 million ...

The Mint Museum Randolph’s African art galleries are open again after closing for an extensive, multi-year renovation. The ...

Mohamed Khalifa Al Mubarak, chairman of the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi, highlights Abu Dhabi's growing role as a key centre for promoting African art and culture and shaping the ...

Visitors will marvel at the vividness of the royal drapes with the emblems of the kings of Dahomey (today Benin) and see the ...

In 2021, 2022 and 2023, popular coups in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger yielded new leaders in these former French colonies. Subsequently, they exited one of Africa’s biggest regional blocs, the ...

West African bloc ECOWAS on Wednesday expressed "deep concern" over a row between Algeria and its southern neighbour Mali. On Monday, the two countries closed their airspace to each others ...

Notably, African artists are slowly but surely getting their due for their efforts in bringing back lost art techniques to the contemporary global art scene. Not only are they preserving culture ...