Friday, September 3, 2010

The Arts of Africa

The Creative Arts of Continental Africa and the Diaspora

Peace House Africa

Peace House Africa

October 2009: Students at Peace House Secondary School (PHS) in Tanzania have been working hard to write articles for their first ever STUDENT NEWSLETTER,Peace House Drum. This informative publication details life at PHS and in Tanzania from the perspective of the students and volunteers. Thank you to the students, staff and volunteers at PHS for contributing [...]

Iba Ndiaye, Senaglese Modernist Painter, Is Dead at 80

The Senaglese artist Iba Ndiaye, one of the most important painters of 20th-century African modernism, died on Oct. 5 in Paris, where he had lived for many years. He was 80. 

The cause was heart failure after a long illness, said Susan Vogel, the founder of the Museum for African Art in New York, which showed [...]

Fela Live performing – Power Show

 

FELA Live – Power Show

Fela Anikulapo-Kuti's afrobeat occupies a pivotal position in Nigeria's musical continuum and socio-political discourse. Through Fela, a new medium of social and political criticism was unearthed for the critical mass of Nigerians in the 1970s. Although Nigeria was experiencing what would turn out to be a brief respite of oil-boom prosperity [...]

Peace House Africa

Peace House Africa

October 2009: Students at Peace House Secondary School (PHS) in Tanzania have been working hard to write articles for their first ever STUDENT NEWSLETTER,Peace House Drum. This informative publication details life at PHS and in Tanzania from the perspective of the students and volunteers. Thank you to the students, staff and volunteers at PHS for contributing [...]

FELA - Power Show video

 

FELA Live – Power Show

Fela Anikulapo-Kuti's afrobeat occupies a pivotal position in Nigeria's musical continuum and socio-political discourse. Through Fela, a new medium of social and political criticism was unearthed for the critical mass of Nigerians in the 1970s. Although Nigeria was experiencing what would turn out to be a brief respite of oil-boom prosperity after the bitter Biafran civil war, Fela used his music to remind the society to be critical of and cautious about the military dictatorship and the impact of neocolonialism on the psyche of the Nigerian people.

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