the Museum of West African Art (MOWAA) is set to redefine and spur critical conversations and reflection on museum practice, cultural engagement and scholarship, as well as stimulate interest in the ...

The wake of slavery impacted all Americans, said Diana Baird N’Diaye, the show's curator. She is based between the U.S. and ...

it is widely believed to have roots in African culture. Some West African communities incorporated brooms into rituals for cleansing spaces or warding off evil spirits. This symbolic use of the ...

Like this work from the Cameroon Grassfields in West Africa ... Glass" at the New Orleans Museum of Art alongside examples of beading traditions from other African, Indigenous North American ...

In the heart of Benin City, the Museum of West African Arts , MOWAA, is rising as a cultural beacon, reclaiming the ancient ...

The diversity within West African cuisine speaks to the varied ... by UNESCO — has its roots among the Wolof people. By oral tradition, broken rice is the base of more modern versions because ...

Its art and religion influenced the culture of Benin ... This photograph shows an Asante chief at a durbar. Most West African kingdoms slowly came to an end. Then new African kingdoms grew ...

EXPLORING the interconnectedness of culture, security and Democracy’s future in Nigeria was critically examined at the 2023 Annual Lecture of the Centre for Black and African Arts and ...

ART X Lagos, West Africa’s leading international art fair, returns for its highly anticipated ninth edition from October 31st to November 3rd, 2024. Since ...

The much talked about Museum of West African Art (MOWAA) Institute, r a preview event of its first purpose-built building, the MOWAA Institute, on Monday, 4 November, 2024, in Benin, Edo State, titled ...

A Greensboro hairstylist makes her stage debut with a dozen wigs she designed for Three Bone Theatre's "Jaja's African Hair ...