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Museums

Phoka Nyokong and the fight for Africa’s stolen artefacts
Friday
/ 11 February 2025

Phoka Nyokong and the fight for Africa’s stolen artefacts

The artist’s exhibition challenges colonial looting and the fight to reclaim Africa’s stolen cultural heritage

By Kibo Ngowi
Please do not sit on the graves: Lessons from the Rwanda genocide
Friday
/ 16 November 2022

Please do not sit on the graves: Lessons from the Rwanda genocide

28 years after the killing of more than 250 000 during the Rwanda genocide, Lulam Njapa visits the Kigali Genocide Memorial.

By Lulama Njapa
Shonibare celebrates Africa’s contribution to modernism
Friday
/ 30 September 2022

Shonibare celebrates Africa’s contribution to modernism

British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare offers us a mongrelised vision for the future with his new hybrid forms

By Alexandra Dodd
Finding Alkebulan in Africa’s best museums
Friday
/ 18 May 2022

Finding Alkebulan in Africa’s best museums

To celebrate International Museum Day, we look at10 culturally-relevant museums in African

By Eli Osei
What lies in between? Musings on the Joburg Contemporary Art Foundation
Friday
/ 15 December 2021

What lies in between? Musings on the Joburg Contemporary Art Foundation

‘Liminality’ is a buzz word in art speak, but does the current Johannesburg Contemporary Art Foundation exhibition go far enough in meaningfully unpacking it?

By Thabang Monoa
How the Joburg Contemporary Art Foundation promotes ‘slow’ looking
Friday
/ 27 November 2020

How the Joburg Contemporary Art Foundation promotes ‘slow’ looking

The new Joburg Contemporary Art Foundation compels visitors to contemplate and luxuriate in art, writes Mary Corrigall

By Mary Corrigall
Emery Mwazulu Diyabanza: Liberating Africa from land of liberté
Africa
/ 25 October 2020

Emery Mwazulu Diyabanza: Liberating Africa from land of liberté

The cultural and political activist is on a quest to bring looted treasures back home

By Samira Sawlani
Museum in a Box tells our stories
Africa
/ 12 March 2020

Museum in a Box tells our stories

As efforts to repatriate Africa’s artefacts continue, a Zulu collective has hit upon a digital solution

By Laura Kate Gibson
Decolonisation can’t just be a metaphor
Article
/ 14 November 2019

Decolonisation can’t just be a metaphor

Decolonising museums requires more than knowledge exchange and lending back stolen artefacts

By Greer Valley
SA’s disconnect from Africa limits cultural landscape
Article
/ 16 May 2019

SA’s disconnect from Africa limits cultural landscape

South Africa’s identity issues are reflected in its lack of appreciation for pan-African art

By Mary Corrigall
Resistance Against The Repatriation Of African Artefacts
Article
/ 5 December 2018

Resistance Against The Repatriation Of African Artefacts

The justification of the refusal to repatriate artworks and artefacts to their homelands constitute the old practice of infantilising African nations

By Leeto Thale
Jo’burg museums are decaying, but will privatising them create more problems?
Analysis
/ 27 April 2017

Jo’burg museums are decaying, but will privatising them create more problems?

We need a smart new public-private model to keep our heritage assets like galleries ship-shape.

By Staff Reporter
Arts and Culture – Kawina Kawina
Article
/ 20 September 2016

Arts and Culture – Kawina Kawina

In this way he nurtured local talent and he has encouraged craft producers such as MmaMantshunyane and MmaDitshotlo to enter crafts competitions.

By Mike Olivier
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Article
/ 27 October 2011

New York’s Met Museum showcases a world of Islamic treasures

The reopened department’s galleries feature 12 000 objects that aim to promote ‘mutual understanding and education’.

By Staff Reporter
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Article
/ 6 August 2008

Acropolis now

Athens’s new museum is spectacular, even without its star exhibits. Kevin Rushby gets a sneak preview.

By Kevin Rushby
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Article
/ 9 July 2008

Woolly mammoth makes debut in Milwaukee

A 14 500-year-old woolly-mammoth skeleton, almost intact and dug up in 1994, has been unveiled at the Milwaukee Public Museum.

By Dinesh Ramde
No image available
Article
/ 8 June 2008

Farm where Mandela plotted becomes museum

It was just a farm, but what went on there was extraordinary: Nelson Mandela, disguised in blue overalls, plotting with other anti-apartheid leaders against South Africa’s racist regime.

By Charlotte Plantive

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