The importance of cultural preservation
The multimedia artist Tunde Owolabi brings Aso-Oke weaving to gallery spaces.
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Kathleen Bomani
Kathleen Bomani is a visual artist and historian from Tanzania.
Feel the Rainbow
Designer Akosua Afriye-Kumi: “A lot of designers take or find inspiration from Africa, I want to do the same but actually be in Africa doing it.”
Africa and World War I
The story of Africans’ involvement in World War I is largely unheard of outside of academia.
Leather from Human Skin
In the 1880s, in Philadelphia, “birthplace of America,” some white locals used the skin of black people to make clothes, including shoes.
RIP Bi Kidude, Empress of East Africa
Bi Kidude, who died on April 17, 2013, was probably Tanzania’s foremost singer and performer of Taarab music.
Vice and Albinos in Tanzania
Vice.com’s reductive and alarmist style of writing about the continent is not only outdated, but deplorable and contravenes responsible journalism.