The artist’s exhibition challenges colonial looting and the fight to reclaim Africa’s stolen cultural heritage
28 years after the killing of more than 250 000 during the Rwanda genocide, Lulam Njapa visits the Kigali Genocide Memorial.
British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare offers us a mongrelised vision for the future with his new hybrid forms
To celebrate International Museum Day, we look at10 culturally-relevant museums in African
‘Liminality’ is a buzz word in art speak, but does the current Johannesburg Contemporary Art Foundation exhibition go far enough in meaningfully unpacking it?
The new Joburg Contemporary Art Foundation compels visitors to contemplate and luxuriate in art, writes Mary Corrigall
The cultural and political activist is on a quest to bring looted treasures back home
As efforts to repatriate Africa’s artefacts continue, a Zulu collective has hit upon a digital solution
Decolonising museums requires more than knowledge exchange and lending back stolen artefacts
South Africa’s identity issues are reflected in its lack of appreciation for pan-African art
The justification of the refusal to repatriate artworks and artefacts to their homelands constitute the old practice of infantilising African nations
We need a smart new public-private model to keep our heritage assets like galleries ship-shape.
In this way he nurtured local talent and he has encouraged craft producers such as MmaMantshunyane and MmaDitshotlo to enter crafts competitions.
No image available
/ 27 October 2011
The reopened department’s galleries feature 12 000 objects that aim to promote ‘mutual understanding and education’.
Athens’s new museum is spectacular, even without its star exhibits. Kevin Rushby gets a sneak preview.
A 14 500-year-old woolly-mammoth skeleton, almost intact and dug up in 1994, has been unveiled at the Milwaukee Public 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.