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By Akinbola Esther Hair! Hair played a major Role in the Ancient African Culture and Civilisation. A Glamorous Hairdo came …
The mummified remains of 22 kings and queens from ancient Egypt go on display at their new resting place south …
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Our species, Homo sapiens, rose in Africa some 300,000 years ago. The objects that early humans made and used, known …
Olaudah Equiano (c.1745–March 31, 1797), was a writer and abolitionist from the Eboe (Igbo) region of what is today South-Eastern …
Egyptian archaeologists have made a stunning discovery of a lost city that dates back more than 3,400 years to the …
The National Museum of Egyptian Civilization has been fully opened to the public. The facility was opened just a day …
Queen Hatshepsut, Egypt’s only woman pharaoh, began the journey along with 21 others to their new resting place: the country’s …
Crowds of curious Egyptians are expected to line the streets to witness an historic procession of their country’s ancient rulers …
Goulfey, a town located about fifty kilometers from Kousseri in the northern region of Cameroon, is experiencing a new captivating …
The Yaa Asantewaa Art Prize—the first ever dedicated award for female African artists living and working in Africa—launches in Accra, …
The University of Aberdeen says it will return a Benin Bronze to Nigeria within weeks, the first institution to do …
Cascadia Art Museum is reopening with a new exhibition ‘The Sculpture of Charles W. Smith’. Originally from Woodside, N.Y., Smith …
Angelina Jolie has just put the painting “Tower of the Koutoubia Mosque” up for sale. This painting has particular historical …
The NOK culture is an early Iron Age population whose material remains are named after the Ham village of NOK …
When the black Brazilian rapper Emicida imagines his country’s whitewashed history, he sees a textbook missing a succession of key …
Etymologically, the word Abstract was adaptation from the Romans and it literally and originally meant to ‘drag’ or ‘draw’ something …
As the Prussian Palace made its grand opening of a museum on Wednesday, the debate on the return of artifacts …
One of only three artefacts ever recovered from inside Egypt’s Great Pyramid has been found in a misplaced cigar tin …
An online bidder has paid 80,000 euros ($98,000) to get up close and personal with the “Mona Lisa,” after the Louvre museum in …
Nigeria has received a “priceless” terracotta head believed to be at least 600 years old which was smuggled to the …
German media group Bertelsmann will acquire U.S. publisher Simon & Schuster from ViacomCBS for more than $2 billion, a source …
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel, Half of a Yellow Sun, has won the Women’s Prize For Fiction “Winner of Winners” award following …
Meet Nyornuwofia Agorsor better known ‘Agorsor’. The brown skin diva is quite gifted hard working and multi-talented painter/musician (Vocalist, instrumentalist, …
Isata Funma sees me eyeing up the beaded West African head in the double living room of her arctic London …
A great, hulking edifice looms large as you enter Dub London: Bassline of a City. It’s a humongous speaker …
The Olojo Festival is a culture festival in the calendar of the Ile-Ife, Osun State which is located in the …
This April marks the 150th anniversary of the Civil War’s first battle, at Fort Sumter in South Carolina. For the …
The Afrika Museum in Nijmegen, Netherlands houses historic and contemporary from across Africa A group that says it was recovering …
Plaques that form part of the Benin Bronzes are displayed at The British Museum in London. The Bronzes were stolen …
Diarra Bousso I’ve shared with you before the incredible resilience and creativity of Diarra Bousso, the Senegal-born, catastrophic-injury, amnesia-survivor and …
Kerry Washington is officially an Emmy winner! The 43-year-old actress won her first ever Emmy honor for Live in Front …
Decorating can be one of the most exciting times during your experience as a homeowner. Not only are you creating …
Money is hard to get for most people. Money can be easy to get for other people. Why is that? …
“The way you think, not only affects your own life, but others around you – it affects your world. You …
All artists have one thing in common — they start with a blank canvas.In the case of George Sosnak, a …
No one was supposed to get too close to each other over the weekend during a drive-by exhibition of works …
With the 2020 Venice Architecture Biennale postponed to August 29 because of the novel coronavirus pandemic, concerns are still swirling over whether the outbreak …
While some traditions have a way to outlast centuries of changes, the very same changes often demand the creation of …
“It’s so hard to give vocal lessons by Skype. It’s terrible!” Lusine Arakelyan is an opera singer who teaches at …
Tiny eyes peer out from enigmatic, otherworldly creatures. Their contorted bodies are shimmering in colorful metallic hues, endowed with appendages …
Sotheby’s, one of the world’s largest brokers of fine art, jewelry, real estate, and collectibles, ran an online auction from …
