A loan of 20 million euros ($22.5 million) from the French Development Agency will fund a new museum in Benin’s city of Abomey. The aim is to make the 47-hectare (116-acre) UNESCO World Heritage Site more attractive for visitors once France restitutes 26 royal statues taken by French troops over a century ago
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Arts, Culture and Sport Pictures: Mr Eazi, Efya and Blinky Bill perform at the Central Park SummerStage Festival
On a warm summer evening, Africans came out in huge numbers to SummerStage at Central Park to see performances from Nigerian singer Mr Eazi, Ghanaian singer Efya, and Kenyan singer Blinky Bill, the frontman for Just a Band. It was […]
Arts, Culture and Sport Resistance and collaboration: Asameni and the keys to Christiansborg Castle in Accra
The story of Asameni and Christiansborg Castle’s keys reveals the complexities of decisions taken during the transatlantic slave trade.
Arts, Culture and Sport Is Osita Iheme’s meme used by Fenty Beauty and 50 Cent a win for Nollywood?
Osita Iheme is popular actor across Africa but after Fenty Beauty tweeted a meme of him, he has gone global. The Nigerian actor known by many as PawPaw has earned new audiences with his meme going viral on Twitter, and across other social media platforms.
Arts, Culture and Sport Nigerian writer Lesley Nneka Arimah wins 2019 Caine Prize
Nigerian writer Lesley Nneka Arimah is the winner of the 2019 Caine Prize for African Writing. The £10,000 prize is the most prestigious literary award for a short story on the continent.
Arts, Culture and Sport I went on a Voodoo pilgrimage in Haiti
A scholar went on a Voodoo pilgrimage in Haiti and learned how an oppressive slave past has shaped its religious present.
Arts, Culture and Sport Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror: Fluid identities – life beyond virtual reality
Virtual sex, techno-paranoia, the cyber city, second life, social media culture, sexual identity politics and debating the online self – these themes are a sure indication that Black Mirror, the anthology television series created by Charlie Brooker, highlights key themes pertinent to our 21st century psyche and merits scholarly attention, writes Andrew Chatora
Arts, Culture and Sport Zambian teens can’t talk about sex or contraception, even with their friends
There isn’t much space in Zambia’s rural areas for open, judgement-free communication with friends and parents about sexual matters.
Arts, Culture and Sport Kenya is creating a database of plundered cultural artefacts and their current locations
While other African countries have been petitioning for decades and are actively moving towards the repatriation of cultural artefacts that were plundered during the colonial era, Kenya has only recently launched an investigation into which objects were removed from the East African nation, where in the West they are housed and who holds the agency to demand their repatriation.