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The Mbhashe area of South Africa’s Eastern Cape province is a landscape of hills, fields and river valleys leading to the Indian Ocean. All along the ridges are the homesteads of the Xhosa people who ...

When the Second Anglo-Boer War broke out in October 1899, few in London expected a long conflict. The British Empire, then at its height, assumed that a ...

Helen Tilley, Africa as a Living Laboratory: Empire, Development, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge 1870–1950 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011), 3. Saul Dubow, “South Africa: ...

For Abidjan-based artist Saint-Étienne Yéanzi, the continent’s social and political reality has sparked a creative evolution for contemporary African artists, he says, giving them confidence to work ...

A new exhibition, “Deep Roots, New Shoots: Modern and Contemporary African Art from the KAM Collection,” will open at the Hope College Kruizenga Art Museum on Friday, Jan. 12, and run through Saturday ...

As the era of European colonial rule in Africa came to an end during the 1950s and 60s, African artists in newly independent countries across the continent grappled with the question of how to make ...