Art & Archaeology of Africa
- 12 African Artists Leading a Cultural Renaissance Around the World (2024). Edited and produced by Veronica Chambers ...[et al.]. The New York Times. (New York)
***This is part of a series on "Old World, Young Africa" (2023-2024). The article features stories on: Ruth E. Carter; Mr. Eazi; Zhong Feifei; Omar Victor Diop; Nnedi Okorafor; Adamma and Adanne Ebo; Mory Sacko; Grace Wales Bonner; Lesley Lokko; Toheeb Jimoh; and, Nkuli Mlangeni-Berg. - ACASA--Arts Council of the African Studies Association (ASA) of the United States
- "[Established in 1982]...ACASA recommends panels for inclusion in the ASA annual meeting program. ACASA is also an affiliated society of the College Art Association (CAA) and sponsors panels at its annual conference. ACASA-sponsored panels and roundtables focus on a broad range of topics concerning all aspects of African art, both historical and contemporary.
- 19th Triennial ACASA Symposium of African Art, Chicago, Illinois, August 7-11, 2024
- 18th Triennial ACASA Conference Online, June 15-20, 2021
- 17th ACASA Triennial Symposium on African Art, August 8-13, 2017, University of Ghana, Legon--"Final Program"
- 16th Triennial Symposium on African Art, March 19-22, 2014, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
--Includes "Museum Day" at the Newark Art Museum, March 19, 2014, Newark, New Jersey
- Adire African Textiles (Dr. Duncan Clarke, London, UK)A commercial site that contains useful information on the history and manufacturing techniques of adire cloth and other textiles of western Nigeria; plus links.
- The Africa Center (New York)
- "...a nonprofit, nonpartisan, multidisciplinary institution, provides a gateway for engagement with contemporary Africa....will host visual, performing, and digital arts presentations; develop and disseminate innovative educational tools; convene focused, thoughtful peer-to-peer exchanges; and sponsor results-oriented policy research."
--About the Center
- "...a nonprofit, nonpartisan, multidisciplinary institution, provides a gateway for engagement with contemporary Africa....will host visual, performing, and digital arts presentations; develop and disseminate innovative educational tools; convene focused, thoughtful peer-to-peer exchanges; and sponsor results-oriented policy research."
- Africa Cartoons: Encyclopedia of African Political Cartooning (Prof. Tejumola Olaniyan, University of Wisconsin--Madison, USA)This site features sample work of and background information on over 180 cartoonists from around the African continent. "...when finished...As appropriate, there will be links to news, interviews, reviews, journalistic articles and scholarly books and essays on cartooning in Africa generally, and individual cartoonists."
- Africa Comics (Stasso Marconi, Italy)"[In 1999] Africa e Mediterraneo and Lai-momo – two organisations working on the research and development process of African contemporary cultural movements – decided to focus on African comics...As part of the numerous initiatives, we have received, acquired and collected a large number of original comics, drawings and publications. The catalogue now consists of more than 2500 drawings...The online database that you find on this website contains most of the drawings found in the physical collection."
- Africa in the Photobook (Ben Krewinkel, Haarlem, the Netherlands)[Initiated in 2015]...a digital library of photobooks on colonial and post-colonial Africa. "The website is about the changing visual representation of Africa as expressed through the medium of the photobook."
- Africa Foto Fest (Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire)
- Formerly known as "Addis Foto Fest", organized by Aida Muluneh Studio (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
- Africa Foto Fest 2024, October 31--November 20, 2024, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
- Africa Foto Fest 2023, November 3 to December 17, 2023, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
- Africa Foto Fest 2022-23: December 8, 2022-January 21, 2023, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
- See also: Addis Foto Fest 2010-2018, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- "Africa's Iron and Copper Currencies: Suggested Reading" (Compiled by Columbia University Libraries.)A short bibliography to accompany an exhibition curated by Philip Gould which was held at Columbia University during March 2000.
- Africa Photography Basel Ethnographic Museum. (Erin Haney & Jürg Schneider, Basel, Switzerland)"Photography of West Africa and beyond, 1840 to now": digital images of photo albums in the Carl Passavant collection, acquired during Passavant's travels in West and Central Africa, 1883-1885 and now held by the Museum der Kulturen in Basel. This digital project is designed to serve as a repository of historical photographs from Africa. Other collectors and institutions are invited to contribute content.
--See also: African Photography Initiatives below - Africa South Art Initiative (Cape Town, South Africa)ASAI--a collaborative platform for writing art history from below: "...produces new and necessary resources on art and artists in Africa, and makes these resources accessible, mostly online."
--Highlights from publications -and- exhibitions
--3rd Text Africa: an open access, peer-reviewed journal on visual arts and culture. - Africa Vernacular Architecture Database (Jon Twingi Sojkowski, Beaufort, South Carolina, USA)A web site proposing to offer information about African architectures across the African continent. As of May 2019, there is information on only 3 countries : Zambia, Malawi, and Swaziland.
- African Archaeology -- WWW Virtual Library (2022) (Bernard-Olivier Clist, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgique)An extensive listing of links for the archaeology (and paleo-anthropology) of Africa on the Internet---news, field data reports, scholars' contact information, institutions, etc.
- African Arts/Handicraft and Environmental Management Institute (AFHEMI), Yaoundé, Cameroon (Prof. Carol Ventura, Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, Tennessee)This website offers general information about the center and links to information about a variety of Cameroonian visual and handicraft artists who work with metal, bark, beads, pottery, wood, and cloth. Some pages include links to non-African handicraft artists.
- African Diaspora Archaeology Network (Chris Fennell, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)"The ADAN provides this web portal as a focal point for archaeological studies of African diasporas, with news, current research, information and links to other web resources related to the archaeology and history of descendants of African peoples.
-- African diaspora archaeology newsletter. (Online) -- Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois, 2005-
Supercedes: African American archaeology newsletter. (Online) 1994-2000. - African Female Architects (Kigali, Rwanda)"... a Growing Hub & magazine start-up that covers African Women in the architecture & design field and showcases their achievements."
- African Futures Institute (Accra, Ghana)Founded by Lesley Lokko: "The ambition of the African Futures Institute (AFI) is to be a world-class teaching and research institute, located in Accra, Ghana. Its mission is to transform contemporary architectural education by uniting teaching, research and practice in an innovative, critical and globally relevant way."
--Folio: Journal of Contemporary African Architecture, 2017-- (Published by the University of Johannesburg, South Africa) - African Loxo -- Art Contemporain Africain (Art Entraide France, Benodet, France; Diappo, Dakar, Sénégal)Une présentation de plus de 130 artistes africains, classement pars pays, ce site << est une plateforme d'échanges économiques et culturels entre l'Afrique et le reste du monde...et sert de
lien entre les créateurs africains et les marchés de l'art >>. - African Photography Initiatives (Jürg Schneider and Rosario Mazuela, Basel, Switzerland)"APhI is dedicated to Africa’s rich photographic heritage. Our activities focus on the digitization, preservation and valorisation of photography and photography collections in Africa."
--See especially: All Exhibitions; Cameroon Press Photo Archives, Buea ; Agence burundaise de presse ; Studio Photo George, Douala, Cameroon - African Posters from the Melville J. Herskovits Library, Northwestern University (Evanston, Illinois)"The Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies at Northwestern University maintains a comprehensive collection of posters published in Africa and elsewhere. The posters provide a unique resource to carry on research in a broad range of disciplines by consulting the visual image created by governments (independent and colonial) and international agencies, as well as political, labor, social, religious, educational and cultural organizations. In the first phase of this web site, 77 posters, selected as a representative sampling of the collection, are available for searching and viewing."
- African Sculptural Art (Dr. Herbert E. Roese, UK) --via The Internet Archive--Wayback Machine
A collection of illustrated short essays on 'indigenous sculptural arts of South Africa', 'modern' sculpture of Zimbabwe, and on sculpture from west/west-central Africa (Ghana, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo) -- written between the years 1995 and 2000.
- Africanah.org: Arena for Contemporary African, African-American and Caribbean Art (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Since 2013.
- Africultures: Arts plastiques-- Actualités (Olivier Barlet, Editions Harmattan, France)
--Veuillez voir aussi: Architecture
- Afrique in visu: plateforme d'échanges autour du métier de photographe en Afrique (Paris, France)"Afrique in visu, a été initié en octobre 2006 au Mali par Jeanne Mercier et Baptiste de Ville d'Avray. Après l'ouverture d'une cellule d'expérimentation du projet au Mali et au Maroc, l'équipe d'Afrique in visu a étendu son action sur l'ensemble du continent en particulier en République du Congo, République Démocratique du Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Maroc..."
- "Afro-Atlantic Histories" Exhibition at The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, April-July 2022
--See also: Exhibition Overview, April 21, 2022 ; Introduction, April 22, 2022 (via YouTube)
--Plus: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
- AFROMET: Association for the Return of the Maqdala Ethiopian Treasures (2010) (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)Essays (by historian Richard Pankhurst), opinion pieces, and a petition -- no images -- for the return of the art treasures (royal crowns, manuscripts, etc.) stolen from Maqdala by the British Napier expedition in 1868.
-- See also: Dr. Kwame Opoku on "Restitution of African Artefacts" (Oct-Dec 2008) ModernGhana.Com (Modern Ghana Media Communications, Ltd., Accra, Ghana) - Afrotopia: 11e édition des Rencontres de Bamako, Mali, du 2 décembre 2017 au 31 janvier 2018
Biennale Africaine de la Photographie, co-organisée par le Ministère de la Culture du Mali et l’Institut français. - Akan Cultural Symbols Project (George F. Kojo and Robert E. Rowe, Marshall University, West Virginia)The site offers examples and explanations of Akan architecture, textiles, metalwork, wood carving, cosmology, and political traditions. "This project is designed as an educational resource to show the relationships between Akan visual arts and Akan verbal genres. It is also to show some aspects of the rich cultural heritage of the Akan of Ghana ... The Project, therefore, comprises this web site - Akan Cultural Symbols Project Online; a series of books and catalogues; photo exhibitions, lectures and workshops; and multi-media CD-ROMs."
- Aksum: an African civilisation of late antiquity. By Stuart Munro-Hay. (1991): Excerpts, Chapters 1-3 -- Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press, 1991. Plain text in HTML format. (via African Indigenous Science and Knowledge Systems, via Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, Connecticut)
See also:- Return our Obelisk!: The campaign for the return of the Aksum obelisk from Italy to Ethiopia, 1996-2008 -and- 2017
- Ezega.com: "Aksum Obelisk to get renovated with 2 million euros," May 16, 2017 (Addis Ababa)
- BBC Online News: "Ethiopia unveils ancient obelisk" (September 4, 2008) ; --"Obelisk arrives back in Ethiopia (May 28, 2002--April 25, 2005) ; --"New snag slows obelisk's return" (Feb. 12, 2004) ; --"Ethiopia keenly awaits obelisk's return" (Feb. 9, 2004) ; --"Rome obelisk set for African return" (Nov 8, 2003) ; and --"Rome obelisk prepares for journey home" (Oct 10, 2003) (London, UK)
- Ezega.com: "Aksum Obelisk to get renovated with 2 million euros," May 16, 2017 (Addis Ababa)
- Return our Obelisk!: The campaign for the return of the Aksum obelisk from Italy to Ethiopia, 1996-2008 -and- 2017
- algeriades.com: le guide de l'Algérie à l'affiche (via France)Un "webzine" sur les nouveautés de la littérature, tous les arts, et l'histoire et la société en Algérie.
- Ancient Egypt on the Internet (Columbia University Libraries)
- Ancient Nubia -- Robert F. Picken Family Nubian Gallery (The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago)
--See also: Nubia Salvage Project in 1987 and in 1992 - "Ancient Nubia Now," October 13, 2019--January 20, 2020, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts"...showcases the strength of the MFA’s collection, with hundreds of objects on view, some for the first time. Highlights include the exquisite jewels of Nubia’s queens, an army of funerary figurines, gold and silver treasure, and a stele bearing the longest known inscription in the still untranslated Meroitic language and script. The exhibition also brings new insights and voices. Throughout the galleries, video interviews with a biological anthropologist, an Egyptologist, a young Sudanese American, a photographer, and a professor connect the objects on view to pertinent themes such as power, self-representation, and cultural appropriation."
- Ancient Sudan ~ Nubia (2008) (Ibrahim M. Omer, USA)This website --in English and in Arabic-- offers a series of articles on the history and cultures of ancient and pre-Islamic Sudan, especially Nubia; includes a bibliography of resources and
a gallery on Ancient Meroe: Naqa and Musawwarat es-Sufra. - ANKH: Un site sur les Civilisations africaines et l'Egyptologie (Paris, France)
- Ce site comprend une série des textes sur l'Afrique de l'antiquité, une bibliographie des ouvrages choisis, et des autres textes. De plus:
- ANKH: Revue d'Egyyptologie et des Civilisations africaines -- Tables des matières et les résumésRemarque: les résumés sont en français ou en anglais.
- Anthropology Back Door to the Web: L'Afrique centrale (Dr. Bernard Clist, Grasse, France)
- ArchDaily--World Architecture: Countries (USA)"...Everyday hundreds of architects from around the world send us the most architecture projects, news suggestions and building product recommendations. We curate the best and deliver it through innovative technologies to the millions of architects who connect each month from 232 countries."
--See, for example: Egypt ; Ghana ; Kenya ; Nigeria ; Senegal ; South Africa - ArchiAfrika (Accra, Ghana)
- "ArchiAfrika has as its aim to put (modern) African architectural culture on the world map...initiates and facilitates research and projects on the terrain of African architecture and architecture in Africa."
- ArchiAfrika Initiatives
- "Archaeologists in Ethiopia uncover ancient city in Harlaa," June 15, 2017 BBC News (London, UK)
--Listen also to: BBC World News Service--Africa Today, June 16, 2017 - Architectural Association of Kenya (Nairobi, Kenya) Since 1967
- ArchNet (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts)Search by city or country, especially for Islamic sites. "ArchNet is an international online community for architects, planners, urban designers, landscape architects, and scholars developed at the MIT School of Architecture and Planning and the University of Texas at Austin, School of Architecture, in close cooperation with, and with the full support of The Aga Khan Trust for Culture." Thematic collections include: James de Vere Allen: Swahili Kingdoms ; Djenne Conservation ; Journey to Mali ; Mud Mosques of Mali ; A Survey of Bagamoyo
- "Arms into Art = Armas para Arte (Núcleo de Arte em Maputo, Moçambique e AfricaServer em Amsterdam, The Netherlands)A virtual exhibition of works of art made from AK 47 machine guns, landmines, and hand weapons. In English, Portuguese, Dutch, or Danish.
- Art Africa. (Online) --Johannesburg, South Africa: Art South African Magazine, 2022-"Writing Art History Since 2002": current and recent articles from this magazine, in open access since May 2022.
- Art & Life in Africa Project (University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, Iowa) --via The Internet Archive
"The Art & Life in Africa website...is a freely accessible educational resource that is the product of the collaborative efforts of more than fifty scholars, technicians, collectors and institutions around the world....The first phase of developing the Art & Life in Africa website focused on updating the original CD-ROM content [first produced in 1997] so that it is available to as wide an audience as possible. Moving forward, the Art & Life in Africa team plans to invite scholarly contributions that will address underrepresented areas such as modern and contemporary artistic practices and geographic locations like South Africa. These new essays and/or chapters will be added to the site on an ongoing basis."
--See also: University of Iowa Museum of Art--Collections: African Art - ARTLabAfrica (Nairobi, Kenya)"In December 2016 ARTLabAfrica opened an artist-led, non-profit project space to promote awareness and visibility in Nairobi’s exciting arts community through staging cultural events, exhibitions, performances and workshops open to the public."
- Artthrob: Contemporary Art in South Africa (Cape Town ; Johannesburg ; Durban, South Africa)A web-zine offering articles and reviews on art trends in South Africa, links to news on current and recent exhibitions; plus related websites. "ArtThrob is South Africa's leading contemporary visual arts publication, reporting on the national arts scene and the involvement of South African artists in the international art world."
- Art Works Projects (Chicago, Illinois)
- "... to use design and the arts to raise awareness of and educate the public about significant human rights issues."
- Women of Togo (2018)
- Not/Still: The Fight for Human Rights by Uganda's LGBTQI Community (2016)
- Congo/Women (2014)
- Horn of Africa (2013)
- I Dream of Congo (2013)
- Darfur/Darfur (2008-2010)
- Asmara: Architettura e pianificazione urbana nei fondi dell'IsLAO. -- Rome, Italy: Istituto Italiano per l'Africa e l'Oriente, 2010. --via Academia.edu
The digital version (HTML) of an edited volume --in Italian-- on the study of the legacy of Italian colonial architecture and urban planning in Eritrea's capital city, Asmara; with a map and a very large collection of digitized photographs. - Association of African Planning Schools (Cape Town, South Africa)"... a voluntary, peer-to-peer network of African institutions that educate and train urban/city and/or regional/rural planners. Our members are drawn from all regions of Africa, including the countries: Botswana, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe."--See especially: Directory of Member Institutions
- ASAPA--Association of Southern African Professional Archaeologists (South Africa)
- Founded in 2004: The website includes information about events--conferences, workshops, etc., publication news, members-only sections, and related links.
- ASAPA 2015: 2015 Biennial Conference of the Association for Southern African Professional Archaeologists, 1-3 July 2015, University of Zimbabwe, Harare
- Axis Gallery -- African Artists (Dr. Gary van Wyk and Lisa Brittan, New York)"...Founded in 1997 as the only US gallery promoting both 'traditional' and contemporary art from Southern Africa...Today, Axis Gallery shows contemporary art by African artists at its Williamsburg gallery and other venues. Axis has adopted a more project-oriented program, including artist residencies, international cultural collaborations, and training opportunities."
--See especially: Exhibitions -- Current and "Deep Archive" - Bamako & London: collaborative project of exchanges (2011-2013) (London, UK)Highlights from a series of collaborative photography exhibitions. "...drawing upon scenes of everyday lives in London and Bamako through the medium of photographs and transcriptions of interviews."
- Rencontres de Bamako 2024, 14ème Biennale Africaine de la Photographie, du 16 novembre au 16 janvier 2025Organisées par le Ministère de la Culture du Mali et l’Institut français, les Rencontres de Bamako sont la principale manifestation consacrée à la photographie et à la vidéo en Afrique.
--Veuillez voir aussi: Maison Africaine de la Photographie, Bamako ci-dessous. - BantuFirst (University of Ghent, Belgium)The site features general information on the research project (2018-2022) and on related publications. "...a cross-disciplinary research project aiming at transforming our thinking on the Bantu Expansion by collecting new empirical evidence to gain a better understanding of the interconnections between human migration, language spread, climate change and early farming in Late Holocene Central Africa."
- BANI: Base d'Anthropologie physique du Niger, 1994 (IRD--L'Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Paris)"BANI a été conçue pour présenter la collection de squelettes et de restes osseux de l'I.R.S.H., Institut de Recherche en Sciences Humaines de l'Université de Niamey. Elle a été développée dans le cadre du projet 'Conservatoire Archéologique' financé par le Fond d'Aide et de Coopération français et mis en oeuvre par l'ORSTOM et l'I.R.S.H. Mais BANI n'est pas seulement un inventaire anthropologique, c'est aussi une description de la plupart des sépultures préislamiques fouillées officiellement entre 1978 et 1992 dans le nord du Niger. Elle concerne au total 259 sépultures dont 187 sous monuments funéraires."
- Benin Kingdom
- The Art Newspaper. (London): "Looted Benin bronzes to be lent back to Nigeria," October 16, 2017
- BBC News: "Nigeria's opportunity for return of Benin bronzes," September 12, 2020. By Barnaby Phillips. (London, UK)
- Benin1897.com: Art and the Restitution Question -- A colloquium and a traveling art exhibition by Peju Layiwola, April-May 2010 (University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria)
- Benin City Bibliography (2009) by Charles Gore. (via Direct Connection, UK)
- "Benin--Kings and Rituals: Court Arts from Nigeria" Exhibition at The Art Institute of Chicago, July 10--September 21, 2008 (Chicago, Illinois)
- Digital Benin: Reconnecting Royal Art Treasures (Museum am Rothenbaum, MARKK, Hamburg, Germany) Forthcoming exhibition: 2022
- Griot. (Italy): "Benin Royal Museum: David Adjaye to Design the Museum Housing Artifacts Stolen in the Colonial Era," September 23, 2019.
- The Guardian. (London): "Western museums try to forge deal with West Africa to return Benin bronzes," August 12, 2017
- Legacy Restoration Trust (Lagos, Nigeria)...an independent, not-for-profit entity incorporated in Nigeria to support cultural heritage art and archaeological projects by providing research, attracting funding and securing execution capability for high-value arts and cultural projects...LRT’s flagship project is a series of activities in Benin City, Edo State that will culminate in the establishment of the David Adjaye-designed Edo Museum of West African Art (EMOWAA)."
- The New York Times: "Smithsonian to Return Most of Its Benin Bronze Collection to Nigeria," March 8, 2022. (New York)
- The Open University, UK: "Art, Loot and Empire: The Benin Bronzes." (February 2021) --via OpenLearn, on YouTube.com
- Quartz Africa: "The Return of Benin's Looted Bronzes...," November 30, 2018. (New York, USA ; Nairobi, Kenya)
- The Smithsonian Institution: "Smithsonian returns 29 Benin bronzes to the National Commission for Museums and Monuments in Nigeria," October 11, 2022. (Washington, DC)
- Tropen Museum: "Press Statement of the Meeting of the Benin Dialogue Group," July 11, 2019. (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
- The Black Atlantic (2010) Art Term. (Tate Galleries, UK)
- Museum of London: "Black British photography: Neil Kenlock & Armet Francis" (October 2019). (London, UK)"Neil Kenlock and Armet Francis were two radical figures, who took their cameras onto the streets of North Kensington as part of a wider commitment to documenting the lives of African-Caribbean people across London and beyond. Both Jamaican-born...Kenlock was the official photographer of the British Black Panther movement in the UK during the late 1960s and 1970s, a press photographer for the West Indian World newspaper, and the co-founder of ROOT lifestyle magazine and Choice FM radio station...Armet Francis became a fashion and advertising photographer in London...embarked on two lifelong projects – The Black Triangle: People of the African Diaspora and Children of the Black Triangle – that explore black diasporic communities in Britain, Africa and the Caribbean."
- Black Monuments Matter Exhibition, October 2020-March 2021: A Virtual Exhibition of Sub-Saharan Architecture
Presented by: Zamani Project - University of Cape Town, South Africa ; Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations - Aga Khan University, London, UK - "Black Portraiture[s] IV: The Color of Silence," March 22-24, 2018, Cambridge, Massachusetts (via New York University, New York; Hotchkiss Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University)
- "...the eighth conference in a series of conversations about imaging the black body. We invite artists, activists, and scholars to reflect on the visual expressions of national imaginaries and political ideologies that negate racial differences and render black subjects invisible."
--The paper proposal deadline is September 15, 2017! - "Black Portraiture[s]: The Black Body in the West," January 17-20, 2013, Paris, France (An international conference co-sponsored by New York University-Paris, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University, Cornell University, Musée du quai Branly, FSHM, and L’Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts)
- "Black Portraiture[s] III: Reinventions--Strains of Histories and Cultures," November 17-19, 2016, Johannesburg, South Africa Co-sponsored by New York University--Institute of African American Affairs, Harvard University-Hutchins Center for African & African Amerian Research, and the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa.
--See especially: Program schedule
- "...the eighth conference in a series of conversations about imaging the black body. We invite artists, activists, and scholars to reflect on the visual expressions of national imaginaries and political ideologies that negate racial differences and render black subjects invisible."
- Bonani Africa 2010--Festival of Photography, January 2010, South Africa (via SAHO--South African History Online, Pretoria and Cape Town, South Africa)--Papers and abstracts are still available online!
- British Broadcasting Corporation: Building Africa: Architecture of a Continent. (London: BBC4, 2005) --via YouTubeA 59 minute video: "The acclaimed architect David Adjaye travels through Africa to unravel the secrets of the continent's surprising architectural history. In a journey that takes him from Mali to Mussolini's experiment in architectural modernism in Eritrea... After visiting Rwanda ...and Ghana - the country of his own roots, Adjaye concludes his odyssey in South Africa."
- The British Museum--World Cultures: Africa (London, UK)
- The British Museum--Africa Collections
- Endangered Material Knowledge Programme in Africa[Since 2019] "EMKP supports knowledge holders, practitioners, and scholars with grants to conduct new research on critically threatened material knowledge globally, especially in understudied areas and where local funding opportunities are limited. EMKP also helps to connect source communities with museum objects stewarded around the world, and provides access to their material knowledge in a digital repository dedicated to its preservation."
- Exhibition: "Hieroglyphs: unlocking ancient Egypt," October 13, 2022--February 19, 2023
- Sainsbury African Galleries (Permanent exhibition)
- Kingdom of Ife: Sculptures from West Africa, March-July 2010--Video --via YouTube.comA video about this past exhibition on sculptures from the historical kingdom in Nigeria.
- Sudan: Past and Present, 9 September 2004 -- 9 January 2005
- Sudan Archaeological Research Society
(c/o The British Museum, Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan)-- About SARS publications. See also: Berlin's SAG-Sudan Archaeological Society below. below
- The Brooklyn Museum on African Art (Brooklyn, New York)
- "Africa Fashion" Exhibition, June 23--October 22, 2023
- Arts of Africa -- Online Image Collections (New York)This site features 3,862 objects that have been digitally photographed, with several image sizes and background information--including where the object itself can be viewed in the museum; plus related web links.--See also: "Double Take: African Innovations" (2014-)
- CAACART--The Jean Pigozzi Collection of African Art (Geneva, Switzerland)"The CAAC ...is the largest private collection in the world of contemporary African art. It includes works of artists who live or lived in sub-Saharan Africa...It is constantly acquiring new pieces and remains in close personal contact with its artists. The collection is not permanently exhibited at a particular site, but thanks to the exhibitions that it conceives, and the catalogues and books that are published, it reveals to an ever-increasing public the spectacular creativity of sub-Saharan Africa."
- Michael C. Carlos Museum Collections (Emory University):
- Home Page
- Ancient Egyptian Collection"The Carlos Museum's Egyptian collection includes objects from the Predynastic period down to the Roman occupation. First and foremost, it illustrates the funerary beliefs and practices of the ancient Egyptians: the need for the preservation of the body and for burial with the proper funerary equipment. While this might seem to suggest that the Egyptians were obsessed with death, it must be remembered that such an impression is partly due to archaeological factors. The Egyptians buried their dead in the desert, while they lived their lives in cities and villages near the river. It is easier to excavate in dry sand than in areas where work is hampered by a high water table and by present-day occupation. Nevertheless, objects of everyday life are represented in the Carlos Museum's collection, thanks to the Egyptians' habit of placing such items in their tombs for use in the afterlife."
- Africa Collection"..the approximately 900 works acquired by the Carlos Museum from William S. Arnett in 1994 offer valuable insight into African artistic expressions in the variety of their forms, functions, and cultures of origin. The collection also reflects Mr. Arnett's personal collecting interests over the past 25 years. A majority of the objects come from West Africa, with a focus on the numerous cultures of Nigeria, Republic of Benin, and the Cameroon Grassfields. The rest are from the Equatorial Central region of the continent, located mainly in the modern state of Zaire [Dem. Rep. of Congo]. Most of the works date from the 19th and early 20th centuries."
- Home Page
- The Centre for Contemporary Art, Lagos (Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria)Since December 2007: "The centre provides a platform for the development, presentation, and discussion of contemporary visual art and culture. It seeks to create new audiences and to prioritise media such as photography, film and video, performance and installation art which have been under-represented in Nigeria."
- "Céramique en pays serrer et tumulus sénégambiens". Par Stéphane Pradines. Internet Archaeology. (Online). (Issue 3, Autumn 1997) -- York, UK: Department of Archaeology, University of York, 1996-Remarque: Il faut s'incrire avant de lire cet article.
- Columbia University
- Department of Art and Archaeology, The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Gallery -- African Art
- "After the End: Timing Socialism in Contemporary African Art," June 15--October 13, 2019"...presents a selection of works engaging with the history of African socialisms. It features artists looking at countries including Angola, Ethiopia, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique. The exhibition is the first in North America to explore aesthetic responses to African socialisms and their aftermath."
- "The Expanded Subject: New Perspectives in Photographic Portraiture from Africa," September 7-December 10, 2016"...This exhibition reconsiders African contemporary photographic portraiture by presenting the work of four artists whose concerns range beyond depicting social identity: Sammy Baloji, Mohamed Camara, Saïdou Dicko, and George Osodi. Works by these four artists lend greater thematic and formal versatility to the practice of portraiture."
- "After the End: Timing Socialism in Contemporary African Art," June 15--October 13, 2019
- "The Restitution Debate: African Art in a Global Society," October 18, 2019, The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Columbia University.
--See especially: "The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage: Toward a New Relational Ethics," November 2018.
By Felwine Sarr and Bénédicte Savoy. 252 pages in PDF format
- Department of Art and Archaeology, The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Gallery -- African Art
- Columbia University, The Institute of African Studies: "Biennale Cultures in Africa" March 4, 2016, 2:00-6:15 pm, 612 Schermerhorn Hall, Columbia University In collaboration with the Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University, Labex CAP, Alliance Program, the Department of Art History at Barnard College, and others.
- Columbia University, School of the Arts, LeRoy Neiman Gallery: "20 and Odd: The 400-Year Anniversary of 1619." Exhibition, August 30-September 30, 2019.
--See also: "An Exhibition Celebrates the Legacy of Jamestown: '20 and Odd: The 400-Year Anniversary of 1619' at the LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Dodge Hall. Columbia News, August 21, 2019. (New York)
- C&--Contemporary And: Platform for International Art From African Perspectives (Berlin, Germany)A web site and e-zine on trends in contemporary African art and news about exhibitions.
- Zeitz Museum of Contemporary African Art (Cape Town, South Africa)
- Cross|ing: Time Space Movement, University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum (Tampa, Florida)Brief biographies and a few examples from the 1997 exhibition.
- Cutting to the Essence, Shaping for the Fire (Indiana University; Lakeview Museum of Arts & Sciences, Peoria, Illinois)Yoruba and Akan art exhibit.
- Ousmane Ndiaye Dago -- Photographe (Dakar, Sénégal; via Paris)Un site artistique où figure l'artiste sénégalais et son ouevre -- y compris quelques fichiers vidéos. Il y a aussi des actualités artistiques sélectionées.
- DAK'ART 2024: La Biennale de l’Art africain contemporain--"L'éveil, le sillage, xàll wi," du 7 novembre au 7 décembre 2024, Dakar, Sénégal
- 15ème édition -- L'exposition internationale d'Art Africain Contemporain de la Biennale de Dakar présentera le travaux de 58 d'artistes venus de plus que 20 pays d'Afrique et une Exposition Diaspora ...comprend un large éventail de stratégies d'expression allant de la peinture à l'installation, en passant par la performance, la sculpture, l'art vidéo et les média interactifs.
- 2022 Biennale de l'Art contemporaine
--Programme ; les 59 artistes sélectionnés - Colloque 2022, de 23 au 25 mai 2022, Musée des Civilisations Noires, Dakar, Sénégal
- "Rencontres et échanges: "Arts Contemporains Africains et Transformations des Cadres Intellectuels et Normatifs," du vendredi 04 au lundi 07 mai 2018
- DAK'ART 2016: La Biennale de l'Art Africain Contemporain -- "L'Heure Rouge," du 3 mai au 2 juin 2016, Dakar, Sénégal
- Dak'Art 2012: Prospects and Challenges (June 2012) by Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi ; plus, Photos of the exhibitions and events Nafas: art magazine. (Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations, Berlin, Germany; in cooperation with Universes in Universe)
- Dallas Museum of Art: African Art Collection (Dallas, Texas)
- African headwear: beyond fashion (August 2011-January 2012) -- includes 12 page online brochure
- Saturated: Dye-Decorated Cloths from North and West Africa (August 2013--August 2014)
- African headwear: beyond fashion (August 2011-January 2012) -- includes 12 page online brochure
- Musée Dapper sur l'art d'Afrique (Paris, France)
- Detroit Institute of Art: African Art -- Permanent Collection (Detroit, Michigan)
- doual'art (Douala, Cameroun)"doual'art est un centre d'art contemporain et un laboratoire expérimental de nouvelles pratiques urbaines dans les villes africaines."
- Duende Art Projects (Bruno Claessens, founder; Antwerp, Belgium)An online, commercial gallery and exhibition space for contemporary African artists and artworks, featuring work by El Anatsui, Saidou Dicko, Abdoulaye Konate, Kimathi Mafafo, Georgina Maxim, Tuli Mekondjo, and Sizwe Sibisi.
- Durban Art Gallery (Durban, South Africa)"The Durban Art Gallery collections include everything from current and historical art and artefacts of KwaZulu-Natal to English masterpieces, from anonymous carvings, clay pots and beadwork to the works of celebrated South African artists like Andrew Verster and Penny Siopis. The Gallery celebrated its centenary in 1992."
- L'Ecole du Patrimoine Africain (Porto-Novo, République du Bénin)
- "L'EPA est un établissement universitaire de formation et de recherche spécialisé dans la conservation et la médiation du patrimoine culturel mobilier et immobilier à vocation régionale." Sur ce site, on peut apprendre les activités de l'école et les actualités culturelles, participer dans un forum, etc.
- Okwuchukwu Emmanuel "Okwui" Enwezor, 1963-2019
- Africanah.org: "Interview with Okwui Enwezor, director of the Haus der Kunst in Munich, Germany." June 1, 2014. By Daniela Roth. (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
- Aperture: "In Okwui Enwezor's Final Exhibition, An Urgent Portrait of American Life," March 12, 2021. (New York)
- Artnews: "Okwui Enwezor, Pivotal Curator of Contemporary Art, is Dead at 55," March 15, 2019. (Los Angeles)
- Britannica.com: "Okwui Enwezor: Nigerian-born art curator." March 15, 2019. (Chicago)
- The Conversation: "The legacy of Okwui Enwezor--the curator who exhibited Africa to the world." March 27, 2019. (Waltham, Massachusetts)
- Enwezor, Okwui. "Archive Fever: Photography between History and the Monument." (2008) Excerpt from: Archive fever : uses of the document in contemporary art. Edited by Okwui Enwezor. (New York, N.Y. : International Center of Photography ; Göttingen : Steidl Publishers, 2008) -- Reprinted 2014, via Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina.
- The Guardian: "Nigerian Art Historian, curator, Okwui Enwezor, dies at 55," March 17, 2019. (Lagos, Nigeria)
- The New York Times: "Okwui Enwezor, Curator Who Remapped the Art World, Dies at 55," March 18, 2019 (New York)
- "The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945-1994" Exhibition. (See below)
- Third Text: "Okwui Enwezor (1963-2019)," May 16, 2019. By Claire Bishop. (London)
- Africanah.org: "Interview with Okwui Enwezor, director of the Haus der Kunst in Munich, Germany." June 1, 2014. By Daniela Roth. (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
- The Ben Enwonwu Foundation (Ikoyi, Lagos, Nigeria)"Established in 2003 in honour of celebrated Nigerian artist, scholar, educator, art administrator and statesman, Professor Benedict Chukwukadibia Enwonwu (1917-1994)." The website includes information about various cultural and educational programs (scholarships and internships), the archive and research library, on-going research projects, and a bookshop.
- Espace Faguèye -- Les Associations Olivier Arts Africains (Dakar, Sénégal; Seysses, France)<< Ce site est administré par Espace Faguèye, Association basée sur le territoire sénégalais. Olivier Arts Africains basée à Toulouse en France facilite l'accès à la création africaine moderne et contemporaine : plus de 400 oeuvres originales disponibles (peinture, sculpture, photos, Haute couture.)>>
- Ethiopia: Ketema journal: the African building platform. (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)[Launched in 2020] "Ketema is a bi-monthly building and construction journal in Ethiopia focusing on the built environment and professionals involved with a mission of promoting contemporary architecture and its practitioners through publication."
- Ethiopia: Traditions of Creativity (Prof. Ray A. Silverman et al., Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan)The site offers profiles on contemporary Ethiopian artists and current news about "the expressive cultures of Ethiopia", plus information and some images from a 1994 art exhibition held at Michigan State University.
- Princeton Ethiopian, Eritrean and Egyptian Miracles of Mary Project (Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey)"PEMM, a digital humanities project, is a comprehensive resource for the 1,000+ miracle stories and the 2,500+ images painted of the Virgin Mary in these African countries, and preserved in Geʿez between 1300 and the present......You can also learn about over 950 Täˀammərä Maryam manuscripts, from over 100 repositories around the world...with access to 'digital copies'...Drawing on manuscripts from the exceptional collection of Täˀammərä Maryam in Princeton’s Rare Books and Special Collections, PEMM collects information about these miracle tales to enable better scholarship on their contents across regions, languages, and time."
- "Fashion Cities Africa," April 30, 2016--January 8, 2017, Brighton Museum, UK"Explore fashion and style in four cities at the compass points of the African continent – Casablanca in Morocco, Lagos in Nigeria, Nairobi in Kenya and Johannesburg in South Africa."
- "Fold Crumple Crush: The Art of El Anatsui" (2011) by Dr. Susan Vogel (New York)Filmed over three years in Venice, Italy, Nsukka, Nigeria, and the US, this is a powerful portrait of Africa's most widely acclaimed contemporary artist. An insider's view of the artist's practice, the ingenious steps and thousands of hours of labor that convert used bottle tops into huge, opulent wall hangings. Here Anatsui explains how his artworks have become a marriage of painting and sculpture, objects that speak of African history but also reach for the ethereal--and he talks about his aspirations for artworks he has yet to make."
--Credits: Producer, Prince Street Pictures, New York, USA ; Associate Producer, Isaac Kpelle, Accra, Ghana ; Director, Susan Vogel ; Editor, Harry Kafka ; Music, John Billingsley. - Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain: "Beauté Congo, 1926-2015 - Congo Kitoko"...jusqu'au 10 janvier 2016 (Paris, France)
- Fondation Louis Vuitton: "Art/Afrique, le nouvel atelier," du 26 avril au 28 août 2017 (Paris, France)
--Veuillez voir aussi: un court métrage (via YouTube.com) - Fondation Zinsou -- Musée à Ouidah (Cotonou, Bénin)"C'est un lieu d'exposition pour les artistes contemporains, a vu son action se renforcer et s'élargir, depuis juin 2005...Dans un bâtiment historique de la ville de Ouidah, la villa Ajavon, le musée ouvrira ses portes au mois de novembre 2013, accueillant une première exposition, "Focus sur la collection", qui permettra de découvrir 13 artistes, représentant 9 pays d'Afrique."
- Fotota : perspectives africaines en photographie (Montréal et Paris)"[Depuis 2012, ce blog]...se veut un espace ouvert de réflexions et de partage de recherches à propos de noeuds thématiques qui traversent le vaste champ des rapports entretenus ou qu’entretient la photographie avec l’Afrique et son histoire."
- Gallery 1957 (Accra, Ghana)[Launched in 2016] "...a contemporary art gallery with spaces across Accra, Ghana and London, UK...It dedicates its programme to spearheading international exchanges between art practices from these communities and the rest of the world, presenting artists who interrogate concepts of belonging and identity, cultural exchange, and social history beyond Western narratives... Originally set up to promote Ghana and West Africa's presence in the arts scene, it now encompasses the Global South and its diaspora."
- ArtsGhana (Accra, Ghana; Paris, France)With support from the South Planet Portal (an international partnership begun by the Paris-based Africultures), this Ghanaian national arts portal offers news and reviews of the arts in Ghana...since 2017.
--See also: Sud Planète=South Planet - Ghana Institute of Architects (Accra, Ghana)
- G.I. Jones' Photographic Archive of Southeastern Nigerian Art & Culture (Prof. John C. McCall, in cooperation with Ursula Jones, Dept. of Anthropology, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois)"This is an archive of digitized photographs depicting the arts and cultures of southeastern Nigeria. The collection includes examples from Ibibio, Igbo, Ijo and Ogoni speaking peoples. All of the photographs were taken in the 1930s by the late G.I. Jones, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge. The majority of the images are from the Igbo speaking regions where Jones conducted most of his research."
- GoDown Arts Centre (Nairobi, Kenya)"Established in 2003...home to Kenyan creativity in arts and media."
- H-AfrArts Web Page (H-Net--Humanities & Social Sciences OnLine, Michigan State University, East Lansing; Arts Council of the African Studies Association of the United States)H-AfrArts is a discussion list and a WWW site which focus on the expressive arts of Africa and the African diaspora.
- H-Africa Discussion on "Art" (H-Net Humanities and Social Sciences OnLine, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan.)
- See also: H-Africa Network Home Page
- William Leo Hansberry Society (USA)"The William Leo Hansberry Society is an organization of Black scholars from Africa and the African Diaspora committed to promoting and diversifying the study, research, and scholarship of the ancient African past...We are archaeologists, zooarchaeologists, bioarchaeologists, Nubiologists, Egyptologists, Ethiopianists, and Africana Studies scholars whose academic specialties focus on the ancient history, language, and culture of northeast Africa."
- Harvard University, Hutchins Center for African & African American Research: Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
- Hillwood Art Museum Collection, Long Island University: "Threads of Time : African Textiles from the Traditional to the Contemporary." Curated by Prof. Lisa Aronson, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York. (C. W. Post Campus, Brookville, New York)An online exhibition on textiles from Cameroon, DRC, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, & Benin ; with thematic essays and bibliography,
- Howard University: "Art of Africa: Objects from the Collection of Warren Robbins," September 6--November 28, 2011 (Washington, DC)
Selected images from the exhibition and information about the guest curator, Kwaku Ofori--Ansa. - Human origins and evolution in Africa (Prof. Jeanne Sept, Department of Anthropology, Indiana University, Bloomington)This site offers access to: some basic information on human evolution in Africa; syllabi and other resources for courses being taught at Indiana University by the professor; information about a new interactive CD-ROM product on human origins and the archaeology of Olduvai Gorge, in Tanzania; and several useful pages of links.
- "Images of African Peoples: Photography, History, and Culture in Africa and the African Diaspora" Conference, March 31--April 2, 2006, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IllinoisThe website includes general information, abstracts from participants, and program.
- Inagina, l'ultime maison du fer: un film sur les forgerons dogon (Département d'Anthropologie et d'Ecologie, Université de Genève, Suisse)Ce site est une publicité pour le film, mais on y trouve les commentaires intéressants des réalisateurs, les images du film, et un bon de commande. Le film est disponible en anglais. On peut lire ce site en anglais.
- Institut du monde arabe: "Trésors de l'Islam en Afrique: de Tomboctou à Zanzibar," du 14 avril au 30 juillet 2017 (Paris, France)
--Veuillez voir aussi: un court métrage (via France24.com) - International Center of Photography: "Snap Judgements: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography", March 10-May 28, 2006, New York CityThe website features selected images, general information about the museum, and artist information. "Snap Judgments was curated by Okwui Enwezor, who also authored the accompanying catalogue. Okwui Enwezor is Dean of Academic Affairs at San Francisco Art Institute."
- ICCROM--International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property -- Africa (Rome, Italy)
- "In 1998, AFRICA 2009 was introduced at a regional meeting of African cultural heritage professionals held in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. This programme is a joint effort of Africa cultural heritage organizations, ICCROM, the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, and CRATerre-EAG. It is rooted in the notion that the problems facing conservation in Africa must be addressed not only through technical solutions, but also through better taking into account the relationship between the immovable heritage and its relevant communities and overall environment."
- Cultural heritage and the law: protecting immovable heritage in English-speaking countries of Sub-Saharan Africa (2008) 129 pages in PDF format
- Protection juridique du patrimoine culturel immobilier: orientation pour les pays francophones de l'Afrique subsaharienne (2009) 84 pages en format PDF
- ICCROM Publications (All)
- "In 1998, AFRICA 2009 was introduced at a regional meeting of African cultural heritage professionals held in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. This programme is a joint effort of Africa cultural heritage organizations, ICCROM, the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, and CRATerre-EAG. It is rooted in the notion that the problems facing conservation in Africa must be addressed not only through technical solutions, but also through better taking into account the relationship between the immovable heritage and its relevant communities and overall environment."
- International Mission Photography Archive (See University of Southern California below)
- Ivuka Arts (Kigali, Rwanda)This web site serves as platform to showcase young artists' works and information about the children's dance troupe and other activities for young people at this community-based center. "Since its inception in 2007, Ivuka has become the face of Rwandan art to both the national and international communities alike...Ivuka Arts Founder and Director Collin Sekajugo still envisions the studio primarily as a place where art is used to change lives."
- Jack Shainman Gallery -- African Artists (New York)
- This private gallery offers sample images of works by various artists from around the world, accompanied by a biography, a bibliography, and very useful related information.
- El Anatsui
- Kay Hassan
- Meleko Mokgosi
- Zwelethu Mthethwa
- Odili Donald Odita
- Toyin Odutola
- Malick Sidibé
- Lynette Yiaodom-Boakye
- Kampala Art Biennale, October 28-November 15, 2020--"Get Up! Stand Up!" (Kampala Arts Trust, Kampala, Uganda)"For KAB20, Simon Njami has decided to invite 7 internationally renown artists to open their studios in Kampala to young Ugandan, East African, African and international artists." The site features information about the forthcoming events, the internatonal African curatorial team, and the organization of previous biennales, including short video interviews.
- "Kanga & Kitenge: Cloth and Culture in East Africa," Erie Art Museum, September 27, 2008--April 5, 2009 (Erie, Pennsylvania)The web site for this art exhibition features images of kanga from the Museum's collections and photographs of kanga and kitenge being used, Swahili inscriptions, etc. ...all in downloadable PowerPoint files.
- Kanga Writings -- Pictures -- History (Hassan Ali, Ottawa, Canada)A chart of Swahili sayings that often appear on the cotton cloth commonly worn by women in East Africa, especially in Tanzania or coastal Kenya. The chart also includes literal English translation and the deeper meanings.
- Seydou Keita au Grand Palais, Paris, du 31 mars au 11 juillet 2016 (France)Exposition organisée par la Réunion des musées nationaux – Grand Palais avec la participation de la Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC) – The Pigozzi Collection
- Seydou Keita -- "Studio Work: from 1949 to 1970" (Dominique Anginot, Lux Modernis/Commnications Multimedia, Paris; via ZoneZero: From Analog to Digital Photography, USA)Excerpts from a photographic collection on the work of this world-renown Malian artist published on CD-ROM by Lux Modernis/Communications Multimedia of Paris, plus a very short interview. Warning: there are no identifying captions with the image files.
- Kente cloth: a selected bibliography (February 1994)" by Ruth A. Hodges, Reference Librarian, Howard University (Moorland Spingarn Research Center, Howard University, Washington, DC)
- A lengthy bibliography on Ghanaian kente and other African textiles.
- See also: Republic of Ghana - Gold Coast of Africa: Kente Cloth (Network Computer Systems, Ltd.; via Ghana.Com, Accra, Ghana)These web pages have not been updated since 1995: a brief history and discussion of kente cloth, with an entire page of samples and descriptions.
- Diébédo Francis Kéré, 1965--
- The Africa Report: "Burkina Faso: Diébédo Francis Kéré wins 2022 Pritzker Architecture Prize," March 16, 2022. (Paris, France)
- ArchDaily: "Francis Kéré Receives the 2022 Pritzker Architecture Prize," March 15, 2022.
- Archilovers.com: Diébédo Francis Kéré (Italy)
- leFaso.net: "Diébédo Francis Kéré : quand l’architecture construit l’avenir," le 16 janvier 2006. (Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso)
- Kéré Architecture (Berlin, Germany)
- The Pritzker Architecture Prize: Diébédo Francis Kéré, 2022 Laureate (Chicago, Illinois)
- Kiboko Projects & Galleries (Mark Scheflen et al., Visual Arts Program, St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery, New York)Since 1995, Mark Scheflen has been director of a program designed to nurture child artists in New York, Kenya, and South Africa. This web site features information about the various programs and several galleries of the children's art ("for sale").
- Kongo Across the Waters, October 2013 to May 2015 (University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida; Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium)A travelling exhibition of 160 works from the Kongo Kingdom and in the Americas. The exhibition was on view at The Harn Museum of Art in Gainesville, Florida (see "Harn's 'Kongo Across the Waters'," October 2013. The Gainesville Sun) ; at the Carter Presidential Library and Museum in Atlanta, GA ; Princeton University Art Museum in Princeton, NJ (October 25, 2014--January 25, 2015) ; and NOMA--New Orleans Museum of Art in New Orleans, LA (February 27-May 5, 2015).
- Krannert Art Museum, Permanent Collections : Africa--Masks (Senufo, Dan, Yoruba) & Headdress (Bamana) from West Africa; plus Ancient Egyptian (Thebes)--19th dynasty. (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
- Leptis Magna (Tripolitania) on the Web
- Lepcis Magna -- The Roman Empire in Africa (UK)
- Looklex Libya -- Leptis Magna (Oslo, Norway)
- Libyan Museums: Libya's First Online Museum (Temehu Tourism Services, Tripoli, Libya)
- Musée du Louvre (Paris)
- 7e Biennale de Lubumbashi, du 6 octobre au 6 novembre 2022---"Toxicity" (Democratic Republic of Congo)"Initiée depuis 2008 par l’Asbl Picha, La Biennale de Lubumbashi, Rencontres Picha sert de point de ralliement pour la jeune scène artistique, avec, à l’origine, un accent sur l’image photographique telle qu’elle s’impose dans la réalité de l’art contemporain. Elle fournit une plate-forme pour les artistes et acteurs culturels de la République Démocratique du Congo, dans le cadre d’échanges internationaux et divers réseaux."
- "Magical Africa--Masks and Sculptures from Ivory Coast, The Artists Revealed," October 25, 2014--February 15, 2015 (De Nieuwe Kerk Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
- Maison Africaine de la Photographie (Bamako, Mali)
Remarquez: depuis le 1er avril 2016, on ne peut plus accéder au site actuel.La MAP a été créé le 25 mars 2004, pour avancer le travail de collecte, de conservation, de promotion et de diffusion des oeuvres du patrimoine photographique africain. Elle abrite le siège de la direction générale des Rencontres Africaines de la Photographie.
--Veuillez voir: MaliActu.net: "Maison africaine de la photographie--Le chantier du nouveau siege...," le 4 avril 2016 - Malangatana Valente Ngwenya, 1936-2011
- AllAfrica.Com: "Mozambique: Nation's Greatest Painter Dies," AIM Reports, January 5, 2011 (New York)
- Kulungwana--Associação para o Desenvolvimento Cultural: Malangatana (Maputo, Mozambique)
- The Mail & Guardian. (Online): "Mozambican painter Malangatana dies in Portugal," January 5, 2011 (Johannesburg, South Africa)
- Malangatana interview in August 2007, Maputo, Mozambique via YouTube.Com
- AllAfrica.Com: "Mozambique: Nation's Greatest Painter Dies," AIM Reports, January 5, 2011 (New York)
- Mali -- Art and Architecture
- Djenné Patrimoine (2015) (via France)Un site bien illusté sur la grande héritage culturelle de la ville, y compris une galerie photographique sur le crépisage de la grande mosquée de Djenné, un recueil de cartes sur la localisation des tombeaux des Saints, et Djenné patrimoine informations. (Online). Bulletin. -- [France]: Association pour la promotion du patrimoine culturel de Djenné (Mali), 1996-2015.
- Dogon Niger Lobi Photographic Albums (Huib Blom, Switzerland)An extensive collection of travel photographs of people, landscapes, and cultural sites among the Dogon and the Lobi of Mali, Burkina Faso, and Ghana; plus images from along the Niger River in Mali. Note: individual photos are labelled, but there are no explanatory captions.
-- See especially: "Malian Architecture" photo album - Mali Interactive Project (Rice University, Texas)A summary of the 1997 project on the archæogical and historical sites of Jenne-Jeno along the Upper Niger River in Mali, West Africa. The project was designed as a way of teaching archæology to middle and high school students. There are lots of interesting photographs, maps, diagrams, and links to other archaeology sites on the Net.
- Archive of Malian Photography MATRIX: Center for Digital Humanities & Social Sciences (Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan)"[Spanning the 1940s-90s]...Archive of Malian Photography provides access to preserved & digitized collections of five important photographers in Mali. Since 2011, our collaborative team of US and Malian conservators has been cleaning, scanning, cataloging, and rehousing circa 100,000 photographic negatives from the archives of Mamadou Cissé, Adama Kouyaté, Abdourahmane Sakaly, Malick Sidibé, and Tijani Sitou for long-term preservation and access."
- The Menil Collection: "ReCollecting Dogon" (2020) (Houston, Texas)"Featuring texts by specialists from Mali, France, Britain, and the United States, ReCollecting Dogon examines the visual culture of the Dogon peoples of Mali and its 20th-century Western history—it is one of the most studied, collected, and mythologized visual cultures on the African continent."
- Musée du Quay Branly Jacques Chirac: "Dogon" (Paris, France)
- Djenné Patrimoine (2015) (via France)
- MAEASaM--Mapping Africa's Endangered Archaeological Sites and Monuments (University of Cambridge, UK)"The MAEASaM project is working to identify and document endangered archaeological heritage sites across eight African countries, [Botswana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mali, Senegal, Sudan, Tanzania, & Zimbabwe] dated from the Palaeolithic/Early Stone Age to the 20th century, then share this information to help protect them. Using a combination of remote sensing, records-based research and selective archaeological surveys, the team is building comprehensive and up-to-date records of site types and distributions, which will be made available in an open access Arches geospatial relational database tailored for different interest groups and stakeholders."
--Resources: maps and videos on digitization
--MAEASaM newsletter - Mapungubwe Remembered (2011) (University of Pretoria, South Africa)Open access PDF version of book, with 400 photographs, on the Upper Limpopo River valley iron-age archaeological sites in South Africa and Botswana which pre-date the Great Zimbabwe ruins in Zimbabwe.
--See also: University of Pretoria's digital repository on "Mapungubwe Collections" - Mäzgäbä Seelat: Treasury of Ethiopian Images (Prof. Michael Gervers ...[et al]., University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada)"A database for the recording of Ethiopian art, architecture and culture"---registration is required for access. "The bulk of the collection is composed of the more than 10,000 photographs taken by Michael Gervers during research trips to Ethiopia between 1982 and 2002. It also includes some rare images taken by Diana Spencer in the 1960s and 1970s, and by Paul Henze and Fiona McEwen more recently...Presently, there are over 11,000 images in the system and more are added regularly."
--See also: Selected publications by Gervers and others. - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York -- African Art
- African Art -- Timeline and EssaysThese web pages offer very brief historical summaries, with a few images and maps. Topics include art of: Aksum, Benin, Egypt, Fulani/Fulbe, Great Zimbabwe, Ife, Igbo-Ukwu, Nok, Nubia, Mali and Songhai empires, Sudan, etc. -- See also: Works of Art: Africa
- Ancient Egyptian Art -- Timeline, Essays, Exhibitions, and Web Resources
- Arts of Africa (Permanent Collection)Images and detailed descriptions of the full inventory of objects in the permanent collection.
- Africa & Byzantium (December 2023--March 2024)An exhbition highlighting "the profound artistic contributions of North Africa, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, and other powerful African kingdoms whose pivotal interactions with Byzantium had a lasting impact on the Mediterranean world."
- The African Origin of Civilization, December 14, 2021--
- Sahel: Art and Empires on the Shores of the Sahara, January 30-August 23, 2020
- African Art: New York and the Avant-Garde, November 27, 2012-April 14, 2013
- Heroic Africans: legendary leaders and iconic sculptures, September 21, 2011-January 29, 2012
- Browse Past Exhibitions, since 1999
- African Art -- Timeline and Essays
- Michigan State University Museum: African Connections : Perspectives on Collecting Culture, January-September 1999, curated by R.A. Silverman. Virtual Exhibitions (East Lansing, Michigan)"...includes the contribution of masks from Burkina Faso, West African textiles, an exceptional collection of sowei masks from Sierra Leone and Liberia, Ethiopian paintings dating from the 1930s, Tuareg metalwork from Niger, and figurative sculpture and masks from various parts of the continent. Based on our commitment to collect, conserve, and exhibit well-documented objects, our most important acquisitions have been the research collections made in Somalia, Niger, Ethiopia, and South Africa."
- Modern African art : a basic reading list. Compiled by Janet L. Stanley (2020). (Washington, DC: National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution Libraries)An online, full-length, annotated bibliography. Last update: January 2020.
- Musée des Civilisations Noires (Dakar, Sénégal)"Le MCN est le fruit d’un long processus, accompagné de changements majeurs depuis plus d’une cinquantaine d’années. C’est donc un projet évolutif, façonné par une riche histoire intellectuelle et culturelle qui doit célébrer les Civilisations noires dans le temps du monde." --Veuillez voir surtout:
Expositions en cours -et- Premier Anniversaire du MCN--"Mutations", du 6 au 21 décembre 2019 - MoCADA--The Museum of Contemporary African Disaporan Arts (Brooklyn, New York)"MoCADA was founded in 1999 in a building owned by the historical Bridge Street AWME Church in heart of the Bedford-Stuyvesant community...MoCADA opened its new facility in the James E. Davis 80 Arts Building on May 19, 2006."
- Le Musée Dapper sur l'Afrique (Paris, France)
- Page d'accueil
- "Vivre! Photographies de la résilience," du mars 29 au mai 31 2019, Gorée, Sénégal
- Ndary Lo, rétrospective, du 3 mai au 2 juin 2018
- Afriques: Artistes d'hier et d'aujourd'hui, du 21 janvier au 6 mai 2018
- Chefs d'oeuvre d'Afrique, du 30 septembre 2015 au 21 décembre 2016
--Veuillez voir surtout: Dossier 7 pages en format PDF - Initiés--bassin du Congo, du 9 octobre 2013 au 6 juillet 2014
- Angola, figures de pouvoir, du 10 novembre au 10 juillet 2011 ; Veuillez voir aussi: Dossier. 16 pages en format PDF
- Femmes dans les arts d'Afrique (10 octobre 2008--12 juillet 2009)
- Gabon, présence des esprits, du 20 septembre 2006 au 22 juillet 2007
- Sénégal contemporain, du 27 avril au 13 juillet 2006
- Brésil, l'héritage africain, du 22 septembre 2005 au 26 mars 2006
- Le Musée d'ethnographie, Neuchâtel (MEN) (Neuchâtel, Switzerland)
- MEN Page d'accueil
- Collections sur l'AfriquePlusieurs descriptions des fonds du Musée et quelques exemples de l'Angola, du Gabon, de la Mauritanie ; et ceux des Touaregs.
- Egypte ancienne
- Le Musée du Louvre (Paris, France)
- Le Musée du Quai Branly Jacques Chirac--Afrique (Paris, France)
- Veuillez voir aussi: Catalogue des objects--Rechercher.
- "Senghor et les arts. Réinventer l’universel," du 7 février au 19 novembre 2023
- "Madagascar: Arts de la Grande Île," du 18 septembre 2018 au 1er janvier 2019.
- "L'Afrique des routes," du 31 janvier au 12 novembre 2017
- "Du Jordain au Congo: art et christianisme en Afrique centrale," du 23 novembre 2016 au 2 avril 2017
- Fleuve Congo--Arts d'Afrique centrale, du 22 juin au 3 octobre 2010
- Présence africaine--une tribune, un mouvement, un réseau, du 10 novembre 2009 au 31 janvier 2010
- Artistes d'Abomey--dialogue sur un royaume africain, du 10 novembre au 31 janvier 2010
- Toutes les expositions actuelles et passées
- Veuillez voir aussi: Catalogue des objects--Rechercher.
- Le Musée royal de l'Afrique central = Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgique
- Sur ce site, on peut se renseigner sur les services, les expositions, et les projets de l'Institut de recherche (y compris les publications en ligne.
- "Indépendance du Congo: Récits congolais (2020) -- Exposition virtuel
- Museum of the African Diaspora (San Francisco, California)"The African American Cultural Institute grew out of the research and development process that began in 2002. The new museum was renamed Museum of the African Diaspora to reflect a broadened scope and mission...MoAD opened its doors in 2005, debuting a gorgeous modern museum designed to showcase art and culture through the lens of the African Diaspora."
--See especially: Upcoming ; Current ; and, Past Exhibitions. - Museum of Arts and Design (New York) The Global Africa Project, November 17, 2010--May 15, 2011, at the Museum of Arts and Design--Family Guide
The "family guide" offers highlights from this exhibition of the work over 100 artists working in Africa, Europe, Asia, the United States, and the Caribbean. There's also a Teacher Resource Packet. "Featured artists range from such well-known figures as Yinka Shonibare, MBE, Kehinde Wiley, and Fred Wilson; to Nigerian-born, London-based fashion designer Duro Olowu, and Paris-based Togolese/Brazilian designer Kossi Aguessy, who has collaborated with Yves Saint Laurent, Cartier, and Swarovski; to the Gahaya Links Weaving Association, a collaborative of Hutu and Tutsi women working in traditional basketry techniques in Rwanda." - MOMA--Museum of Modern Art (New York)
- New Photography 2023: Kelani Abass, Akinbode Akinbiyi, Yagazie Emezi, Amanda Iheme, Abraham Oghobase, Karl Ohiri, and Logo Oluwamuyiwa (Lagos, Nigeria) The Donald and Catherine Marron Family Atrium.
- "Impressions from South Africa, 1965 to Now," March 23--August 14, 2011 The Paul J. Sachs Prints and Illustrated Books Galleries.
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration: Contemporary African Art from the Harmon Foundation (College Park, Maryland)This site includes a list of works, an index of artists, and black & white photographs of the works. "The Harmon Foundation, a nonprofit, private foundation active from 1922 to 1967, helped foster an awareness of African art...When the foundation ended its activities in 1967, it donated to the National Archives its entire collection of motion pictures, filmstrips, color slides, and black and white prints and negatives on a variety of subjects."
- National Center for Afro-American Artists (Boston, Massachusetts)
- National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC)
--See also: "More Than a Building, A Dream Come True: The Opening of the African American Museum." (November 23, 2016). Black America. (CUNY TV, The City University of New York, New York)
- National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC)
- The home page of the museum offers highlights from temporary and permanent collections, as well as teaching resources. See also: Warren M. Robbins Library, National Museum of African Art and
The Library Catalog of The Smithsonian Institution - Search for digital images from the Art Collection -and- Photographic Archive
- Current exhibitions--all
- "Caravans of Gold, Fragment in Time: Art, Culture and Exchange Across Medieval Saharan Africa." Online Exhibition, due to COVID-19 restrictions.
- Google Arts & Culture: Selected Objects and Stories from the National Museum of African Art (2019 to present) (USA)Ten illustrated stories, some with videos, and 336 items digitized from the collections: including Ethiopia, Mali, Nigeria, South Africa, and Tanzania.
- "I am...Contemporary Women Artists of Africa." (June 20, 2019--July 5, 2020)
- "Good as Gold: Fashioning Senegalese Women." (until February 2, 2020)
- "Striking Iron: The Art of African Blacksmiths," (until Ocotber 14, 2019)
- "World on the Horizon: Swahili Arts Across the Indian Ocean." (May 9-September 3, 2018)
- "Senses of Time: Video and Film-Based Works of Africa" (May 18, 2017-January 21, 2018)
- Online Exhibit: "Sailors and Daughters: Early Photography and the Indian Ocean" (2016-2017)
- "Market Symphony by Emeka Ogboh," February 2016-April 2017
- "Artists' Books and Africa," Sept. 2015--Sept. 2016, Warren M. Robbins Library, NMAA
- "Africa Reviewed: The Photographic Legacy of Eliot Elisofon," November 21, 2013--December 14, 2014
- "Earth Matters: Land as Material and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa," April 2013-January 2014
- "African Mosaic: Celebrating a Decade of Collecting," November 2010- (Highlights online)
- "Artists in Dialogue: António Cole and Aimé Mpane," February 2009-January 2011 (Hightlights online)
- Brave New World: Theo Eshetu and others (Egyptian, Ethiopian, & Sudanese artists), August 2010-April 2011
- The Healing Power of Art: Works of Art by Haitian Children After the Earthquake, June 2010-February 2011
- "Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa & Its Diasporas" (2009-2010 US Exhibition)This exhibition was organized and produced by the Fowler Museum at UCLA and guest curated by Henry Drewal, Ph.D., who is professor of Art History and Afro-American Studies, University of Wisconsin. The exhibition debuted at the Fowler Museum, then traveled to the Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. See the final viewing at the Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, California.
- "Artful Animals," July 1, 2009-February 21, 2010
- "African Vision: The Walt Disney--Tishman African Art Collection, February 15-September 7, 2007
- "Inscribing Meaning: Writing & Graphic Systems in African Art," May-August 2007
- "Body of Evidence--Selections from the Contemporary African Art Collection," June 2006-April 2008
- "The Art of the Personal Object: Art from Eastern & Southern Africa," 2006"This exhibition celebrates the creativity of African artists who have made utilitarian objects of great beauty. Made to fulfill a specific function, each object was also skillfully conceived to provoke visual and tactile delight."
- "African Gold from the Glassell Collection--Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas," May-November 2006Gold objects by Akan artists from Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire in the 19th and 20th centuries.
- "Where Gods and Mortal s Meet: Continuity and Renewal in Urhobo Art," June-September 2005"The exhibition is organized into sections that consider the forms and underlying aesthetic values of Urhobo society: personal images that offer protection and advancement; images of women at various stages of life; masquerade arts; and at the grandest level, communal shrine art, awesome in scale and form. Integral to the exhibition are works by contemporary Urhobo artist Bruce Onobrakpeya."
- "Textures: Words & Symbol in Contemporary African Art", February-September 2005"The works employ text and graphic symbols to tell stories about memory, identity and the power of language. In doing so, they bring African visual histories into the global debate on conceptualism, which often melds word and image."
- "Ethiopian Passages: Dialogues in the Diaspora", May 2 - October 5, 2003The website features videos and images by "10 artists, from across several generations, who have addressed issues of identity, experienced displacement and created new 'homelands'. Their artworks span the media--from paintings, mixed media, photography and digital prints to ceramic and papier mâché sculptures, murals and on-site installations."
- "Ethiopian Icons: Faith and Science", January 31 - October 3, 2003The website includes images of Ethiopian Orthodox Christian icons (and processional crosses) from the 17th to the 19th centuries; plus a short bibliography.
- "Journeys & Destinations: African Artists on the Move", January 31 - November 30, 2003A selection of images from an exhibition of works by the new African diaspora artists in Europe and the USA.
- "In and Out of Focus: Images from Central Africa 1885-1960", December 2, 2002 - March 16, 2003The website features images from the photography exhibition.
- Mali Empire and Djenne Figures -- Curriculum ResourceThese web pages offer a very brief summary of the history and art of the Mali empire, with only a few images and a list of related web links.
- Gifts & Blessings: The Textile Arts of Magagascar -- Special exhibit, April 11, 2002 - September 2, 2002.
- Encounters with the Contemporary (Selections from the Permanent Collections) -- January 2002.
- Initiation Arts in African Cultures (West and West-Central African Art) -- Includes "Spectacular Display: The Art of Nkanu Initiation", December 16, 2001 - March 3, 2002.
- Chant Avedissian: A Contemporary Artist of Egypt -- Special exhibit, November 19, 2000 - February 19, 2001.
- A Concrete Vision : Oshogbo Art in the 1960s -- Special exhibit, January 23 - October 22, 2000.
- Wrapped in Pride: Ghanaian Kente and African American Identity -- Special exhibit, September 12, 1999 - January 2, 2000.
- Hats Off! A Salute to African Headwear -- Special exhibit, July 18, 1999 - December 26, 1999.
- Claiming Art / Reclaiming Space : Post-Apartheid Art from South Africa -- Special exhibit, June 20 to September 26, 1999.
- Sokari Douglas Camp's "Church Ede - A Tribute to Her Father - Alali/Festival" (Works of the modern Nigerian woman sculptor) -- Special exhibit, March 21 - June 20, 1999.
- A Personal Journey: Central African Art from The Lawrence Gussman Collection (Art from Gabon and the Congo River Basin)
- "The Ancient West African city of Benin." (Permanent)
- "The Art of the Personal Object" (Permanent) (West-Central and Central African objects)
- "Ceramic Arts" (Permanent) (Western, South-Central & Eastern Africa)
- "Images of Power and Identity" (Permanent) (West Africa, Congo Basin, Southern & Eastern Africa)
- "Olowe of Ise: a Yoruba sculptor to kings." (March-September 1998)
- The Poetics of Line: Seven Artists of the Nsukka Group (October 1997-April 1998).
- "A Spiral of History: a carved tusk from the Loango Coast, Congo." (February-April 1998)
- The home page of the museum offers highlights from temporary and permanent collections, as well as teaching resources. See also: Warren M. Robbins Library, National Museum of African Art and
- New Museum of Contemporary Art: "Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti," July 11 -- September 28, 2003 Exhibition--New Digital Archive (New York)
- The Newark Museum -- Arts of Global Africa (Newark, New Jersey)
- "...its holdings comprise nearly 4,000 objects of ritual, ceremonial and daily use, as well as popular urban and fine arts...showcases works from important art-producing cultures, including the Yoruba of Nigeria and the Asante of Ghana...a towering Epa masquerade headdress by the renowned Yoruba sculptor Bamboye and a rare Tsogo door from Gabon...ivory adornments from the Congo, silver pendants from Niger, beadwork from South Africa...gold jewelry from Zanzibar...and an important collection of African textiles."
- NOMA--New Orleans Museum of Art (New Orleans, Louisiana)
- "Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence and the Mbari Club" Exhibtion at New Orleans Museum of Art, February--May 2023The exhibition explores the connection between African American artist Jacob Lawrence and his contemporaries based in West Africa through the Nigerian publication Black Orpheus. The exhibition features over 125 objects, including Lawrence’s little-known 1964–65 Nigeria series, works by the artists featured in Black Orpheus, archival images, videos, and letters."
- NOMA "African Art" Collection
- "Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence and the Mbari Club" Exhibtion at New Orleans Museum of Art, February--May 2023
- Society of Nigerian Artists (Lagos and Abuja, Nigeria)
Founded in 1963. - Northwestern University, Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies -- Special Collections (Evanston, Illinois)
- Africana Posters from the collections of Northwestern and Michigan State University
- The Winterton Collection of East African Photographs: 1860-1960An inventory and description of the collection of 7,610 photographs and sample images.
- Africana Posters from the collections of Northwestern and Michigan State University
- Nouvelles Africaines -- Quand l'Afrique s'expose en images: Parcours photographiques dans le 20e Arrondissement, 68 Photographes, Paris, du 14 septembre au 8 octobre 2006 (via Africultures.com)
- OkayAfrica (New York, USA)"A digital media platform" featuring current and recent news on the latest trends in African music, art, film, literature, and politics, as well as interviews and reports on African artists in the USA and elsewhere in the diaspora.
- One Off Contemporary Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden (Nairobi, Kenya) 1994-2000 and revived in 2010
- "Other Africas: Images of Nigerian Modernity" Exhibit, January 15--April 21, 2002, University Museum of Southern Illinois University (John C. McCall and Christey Carwile-Routon; Carbondale, Illinois)A "digital record" of an exhibit on fashion, popular poster art, and electronic media.
- "Joe Ouakam" a.k.a. Issa Samb, 1945-2017
- Ounjougou : Peuplement humain et paléoenvironnement en Afrique (Laboratoire Archéologie et Peuplement de l’Afrique et l'Unité d’Anthropologie, Université de Genève, Suisse)Le projet s’intéresse à l'archéologie du peuplement humain dans la Vallée de la Falémé au Sénégal, au Pays Dogon, Mali, et au Parc national des îles Eotilé en Côte d'Ivoire: "[Ce programme] a pour principal objectif l’étude des interactions entre populations humaines et variations climatiques et environnementales." Le site comprend une longue liste de publications depuis 1995 et une autre liste de mémoires de thèse et de master.
- Ousmane Sow -- Site officiel de l'artiste (Paris, France)Ce site présente beaucoup de photos et quelques textes à propos des oeuvres choisis de Ousmane Sow, le sculpteur sénégalais bien connu qui a vécu plus de vingt ans à Paris.
- P21 Gallery: "Sudan: Emergence of Singularities," 23rd March – 6th May 2017 (London, UK)"A season blending contemporary visual arts, theatre, music, design, films and words from and about Sudan."
- PANAFEST '66 '69 '74 '77 (Dominique Malaquais, Cédric Vincent ...[et al.], Chimurenga, Cape Town, South Africa)An open access, web documentary site --in French and some English-- featuring videos of over 50 interviews with participants in the 4 key international pan-African festivals in Africa during the period 1966-1977: FESMAN--First World Festival of Negro Arts (Dakar, 1966); PANAF--First Pan-African Cultural Festival (Algiers, 1969); Festival Zaïre 74 (Kinshasa, 1974) ; and FESTAC--Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture (Lagos, 1977).
- Pan African Archaeological Association of Prehistory and Related Studies (Witwatersrand, South Africa)"To bring together prehistorians, palaeontologists and geologists from one end of the continent to the other."
-- 14th Congress of the PanAfrican Archaeological Association of Prehistory and Related Studies, July 14-18, 2014, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
--See also: Past congresses - Passport to Paradise: Visualizing Islam in West Africa and the Mouride Diaspora (UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, University of California, Los Angeles)A web presentation--with images and essays and information about the exhibition at the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, February-July 2003, and to begin a national tour thereafter. [Note: The Mourides are members of a Muslim brotherhood or movement originating in Senegal.]
- Rapport sur la Resitution du Patrimoine Culturel Africain (Veuillez voir ci-dessous)
- Pelmama -- Johannesburg, South Africa
(via The Haenggi Foundation, Inc., Basel, Switzerland)A website that celebrates the works of South African contemporary artists, with sample images and background summaries on dozens of artists. 'Pelmama -- is an acronym for the "Pelindaba Museums of African and Modern Art", a project initiated by The Haenggi Foundation Inc., Johannesburg, an association not for gain established in 1978, following on the Soweto riots.' - Photographie et Oralité: Dialogues à Bamako, Dakar et ailleurs = Photography and Orality: Dialogues in Bamako, Dakar and Elsewhere (Edité par Bärbel Küster et Clara Pacquet, Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart, Germany)"...Cette publication en ligne se comprend comme un lieu rassemblant les voix des photographes à travers des interviews filmées entre 2011 et 2014 qu’accompagnent leurs travaux photographiques."
- Queensborough Community College Art Gallery: African Collection (QCC, The City University of New York, Bayside, New York)The web site features only a video tour of the permanent collection.
--See also:Highlights from a past exhibition on "Shangaa: art of Tanzania" (Feb.-May 2013) - Revisions : Expanding the Narrative of South African Art The Bruce Campbell Collection (Cape Town, South Africa)A web site based on public exhibitions held in 2005 and 2006, plus a sequel publication in 2007:
"[The collection]...contains an array of South African art from the 1920s to the present day, which focuses particularly on the works of the emerging modern black artists of the mid to late 20th Century...This website makes this collection available to teachers and pupils and the wider public as an archival resource, and promises to become one of the most valuable tools for the democratisation and re-evaluation of the South African art canon." - Revue noire. (Online) -- Paris: Publications Éditions Bleu Outremer, 1991-.Excerpted texts and color images from old issues of the Paris-based African arts and culture journal, and information about subscriptions. [In French or English]
- Mary Nooter Roberts, 1959-2018
- ACASA--Arts Council of the African Studies Association (ASA) of the United States, 17th Triennial Symposium, Accra, Ghana: ACASA Leadership Award 2017 ; Polly Nooter Roberts "ACASA Leadership Award" acceptance speech, August 2017. --via Vimeo.com
- Art and Life in Africa: "Luba Art and Divination," by Mary Nooter Roberts (2014) University of Iowa, Stanley Museum of Art. (Iowa City, Iowa)
- Ethnic Arts Council "Dai Sensai Award": Polly Nooter Roberts' acceptance speech, October 2017 (Los Angeles, California) --via YouTube.com
- Fowler Museum of Art, University of California, Los Angeles: "A Saint in the City: Sufi Arts of Urban Senegal," February-July 2003. Curated by Mary Nooter Roberts, deputy director and chief curator of the Fowler Museum, and Allen F. Roberts, director of the James S. Coleman African Studies Center and professor in the Department of World Arts and Cultures at UCLA.
--See also: "Passport to Paradise" web exhibition - H-Africa Discussion List: "Sad News: Passing of Professor Polly Roberts," September 11, 2018. (H-Net, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan)
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art: "Shaping Power" (2014) by Mary (Polly) Nooter Roberts. --via YouTube.com
- UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture: In memoriam: 'Polly' Nooter Roberts (Los Angeles, California)
- ACASA--Arts Council of the African Studies Association (ASA) of the United States, 17th Triennial Symposium, Accra, Ghana: ACASA Leadership Award 2017 ; Polly Nooter Roberts "ACASA Leadership Award" acceptance speech, August 2017. --via Vimeo.com
- TARA--Trust for African Rock Art (Karen, Nairobi, Kenya)"TARA works closely with communities where rock art is found as well as with national and international heritage bodies including the UNESCO World Heritage Centre."
--See especially: TARA newsletter -- Nairobi, Kenya: TARA, 1997-
--Also: Interactive Map of African Rock Art Sites - Chongoni Rock Art, Malawi UNESCO World Heritage (United Nations Educational, Scientifique and Cultural Organization, Paris, France)
- Kondoa Rock Art, Tanzania UNESCO World Heritage (United Nations Educational, Scientifique and Cultural Organization, Paris, France)
- Rock Art of Sahara and North Africa: thematic study (June 2007) -- Paris, France: ICOMOS--International Council of Monuments and Sites, 2007. 213 pages in PDF format
- Rock Art in Southern Africa
- African Rock Art Digital Archive South African Rock Art Digital Archive (Rock Art Research Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa)"This website brings together the collections of more than 30 institutions and individuals, giving you access to more than 270,000 digital images."
--See also: University of the Witwatersrand, Rock Art Research Institute - Steve Lonker's Southern African Rock Art and Traditional and Contemporary African Art (Silver Spring, Maryland)A gallery of images and links to basic information and discussion.
- National Museum of South Africa, Bloemfontein: Rock Art DepartmentThe website features information about public rock art sites in South Africa, plus information on research, museum-related activities, and publications.
- African Rock Art Digital Archive South African Rock Art Digital Archive (Rock Art Research Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa)
- Ross Archive of African Images (See below: Yale University Library)
- Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgique (See Musée royale de l'Afrique centrale above)
- Issa Samb a.k.a. "Joe Ouakam", 1945-2017
- Dak'Art 2012 -- 10e Biennale de l'art africain contemporain: Joe Ouakam
- Ferloo.com: "Issa Samb alias Joe Ouakam n'est plus," le 25 avril 2017 (Dakar)
- YouTube.com: Extrait du film de Wasis Diop présenté en 2011 au festival Image et Vie (2011)
- Le Rapport Sarr-Savoy sur les Conditions de la Restitution du Patrimoine Culturel Africain (2018)
- "Restituer le patrimoine culturel africain: vers une nouvelle éthique relationnelle." Rapport remis au Président de la République, Emmanuel Macron, le 23 novembre 2018. Par Felwine Sarr et Bénédicte Savoy. 240 pages en format PDF (via L'Ambassade de la France au Bénin, Cotonou)
- "The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage: Toward a New Relational Ethics." November 2018. By Felwine Sarr and Benedicte Savoy. English Version. 252 pages in PDF format.
--Plus, links to selected news articles
- Libération. (Paris): "Une restitution qui s'inscrit dans l'histoire," le 12 décembre 2018 ; "Ver une remise en Etats des oeuvres africaines," le 20 novembre 2018
- ModernGhana.com (Accra): Opinion articles by Dr. Kwame Opoku--"France on Course to Restitution of Looted African Artefacts," July 12, 2019 ; "Discussions on Restitution of Looted African Artefacts at the University of Ghana, Legon." December 22, 2018 ; "Miracles, Reverses, and Hope in Restitution of Looted African Artefacts," December 30, 2018.
- SAVVY : art.contemporary.african. (Online) -- Berlin, Germany: SAVVY, 2010-"The aim of this bilingual journal is to revitalise an open and academic discourse on contemporary artistic positions and art projects related to Africa and its Diaspora...A further focal point is the art scene in the German-speaking countries, where this journal is the first of its kind and where the methodologies of curating contemporary African art need to be investigated."
- "In Pictures: Gerard Sekoto -- father of South Africa's modern art, June 9, 2013" (BBC News Online, British Broadcasting Corporation, London, UK)An online gallery of images of selected paintings by Sekoto, with brief text about the artist (1914-1993).
- Senegal
- Au Sénégal: Galeries d'art et artisanat sénégalais (Dakar)
- Le Musée de la Photographie de Saint-Louis (Saint-Louis)
- La Nécropole mégalithique de Wanar = The megalithic necropolis of Wanar (Luc Laporte--UMR 6566, CNRS, France and Hamady Bocoum--IFAN Director, Cultural Division Director, Dakar)
- Au Sénégal: Galeries d'art et artisanat sénégalais (Dakar)
- Sénoufo.net: Centre de Recherche pour la Sauvegarde et la Promotion de la Culture Sénoufo--Musée (Sikasso, Mali)Le site comprend un recueil des images choisis des objets dans le musée du centre, y compris: les statuettes, les objets domestiques, les masques, les armes, et les instrument de musique.
- "The Shape of Blackness" Virtual Exhibition (Oakstop, Oakland, California) Co-sponsored by The Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity.[Launched in January 2021] "...a virtual art exhibition and related programming that highlights expressions of contemporary Blackness as envisioned by South African and U.S. artists. In choosing these two nations, we seek perspectives from the global north and south, Black majority and Black minority nations."
- "The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945-1994" Exhibition
(via Universes in universe -- Worlds of Art, Pat Binder & Gerhard Haupt, Berlin, Germany)- Curator: Okwui Enwezor ; Co-Curators: Rory Bester, Lauri Firstenberg, Chika Okeke-Agulu, Mark Nash. An introduction to the exhibition, with the calendar of programs and profiles of the artists and sample images of their work. "The Short Century is a visionary project, conceived by Okwui Enwezor, which documents for the first time a fascinating, multi-faceted Modernism and Counter-Modernism that emerged in Africa out of the ruins of colonialism. It describes the impact of independence and liberation movements on the African continent between 1945 and 1994 on the visual arts, literature, film, photography, music, and architecture."
- From February-May 2002, the collection was on exhibit at the P.S.1. Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City, Queens, New York.
- Malick Sidibé, 1936-2016
- Africultures.com : Biographie de Malick Sidibé (avril 2016) (Paris, France)
- Jack Shainman Gallery: Malick Sidibé: video, biography, exhibitions, and bibliography. (New York)
- MaliActu.net: "Mali: disparition de Malick Sidibé, 'boussole' et 'baobab' de la photographie africaine," le 15 avril 2016 -et- "Le dernier hommage au photographe Malick Sidibé," le 16 avril 2016 (Bamako, Mali)
- Nafas: art magazine: "In Memorium: Malick Sidibé (1936-2016)" (Berlin, Germany)
- SierraLeoneHeritage.org (Freetown, Sierra Leone; via University College London and University of Sussex, UK)A collaborative project of The Sierra Leone National Museum, University College London, and University of Sussex, UK, containing a searchable database of digital images and videos. "...the main output of a research project (2009-2012) entitled ‘Reanimating Cultural Heritage: Digital Repatriation, Knowledge Networks and Civil Society Strengthening in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone’...concerned with innovating digital curatorship in relation to Sierra Leonean collections dispersed in the global museumscape. Building on research in anthropology, museum studies, informatics and beyond, the project considered how objects that have become isolated from the oral and performative contexts that originally animated them can be reanimated in digital space alongside associated images, video clips, sounds, texts and other media, and thereby be given new life."
- Elias Sime James Cohan (New York)
--See also: Zoma Contemporary Art Center, Addis Ababa - Homage to Lucas Sithole: 1931-1994 (The Haenggi Foundation, Inc., Johannesburg, South Africa and Basel, Switzerland)This promotional website includes some sample images of the sculptures of Lucas Sithole, information about works for sale, as well as biographical notes. 'Lucas Sithole was the first black artist in South Africa to have a retrospective show in a public museum and a university gallery.'
- Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of African History and Culture (See above)
- Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of African Art (See above)
- The Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History: "The Carver Among Us -- Lamidi Olonade Fakeye, Yoruba Master Sculptor". Africa Voices. (Washington, DC)Images of the artist's work (wooden sculptures), plus helpful texts on Nigerian history and woodcarving.
- Society of Africanist Archaeologists (SAfA) (via Rice University, Houston, Texas)
- The SAfA is an international organization of archaeologists, researchers from associated disciplines and others who share an interest in African archaeology and African societies.
- Nyame Akuma -- Bulletin (Tables of contents from the bulletin of the SAfA.)
- Society of Black Archaeologists (Santa Monica, California, USA)[Founded in 2011] "The Society centers the histories and material cultures of global Black and African communities in archaeological research. By providing a strong network, mentorship, and educational access, the SBA works to resolve the ongoing systemic exclusion of Black and African scholars and communities from the field of archaeology."
- Sokari Douglas Camp (1958-)
- Sokari Douglas Camp -- Official Site (London, UK)A woman artist from Nigeria who sculpts in steel and exhibits mostly in England. Her work is inspired primarily by the Kalabari masquerades, sometimes by the Gelede masquerades of the Yoruba, and by her own observations of life in England and elsewhere. See more of Camp's work from a 1999 exhibit at the National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C.
- Galerie Peter Herrmann: "Sokari Douglas Camp," 1995-2007 collections & exhibitions (Berlin, Germany)Online images of sculptures by the artist and links to her many exhibitions in Germany, the UK, and the USA.
- Sokari Douglas Camp -- Official Site (London, UK)
- Museums Online South Africa (via IFlow Online, Cape Town, South Africa)A directory portal with links to all major museums and cultural societies in South Africa.
- Revisions : Expanding the Narrative of South African Art The Bruce Campbell Collection
--See above - South African Institute of Architects (Randburg, South Africa)"...is a voluntary association of affiliated and regional institutes established in 1996 and incorporates the previous national Institute of South African Architects (established in 1927) and the Regional Institutes..."
--Architecture South Africa (2013-2021) and SAIA annual reports
--See also: International Union of Architects World Congress, August 3-7, 2014, Durban, South Africa - South African Museum, Cape Town, South Africa
- "The South African Museum is dedicated to promoting greater understanding and appreciation of natural history and anthropology for the enrichment of southern Africa's heritage to the benefit of all."
- Ananzi Search: South African Museums and Galleries (South Africa)
- South African Archaeological Society, Trans-Vaal Branch (Craighall, South Africa)
- South Side Community Art Center--Collections (Chicago, Illinois)"Founded in 1940, SSCAC is the oldest African American art center in the United States and is a Chicago Historic Landmark. While taking pride in our rich past, we today build on our legacy and innovatively serve as an artist- and community-centered resource with programs, exhibitions and events that inspire."
--See also: History & Archives - Ousmane Sow, 1935-2016
- Au-Senegal.com (Dakar, Sénégal): "Ousmane Sow, ce sculpteur des hommes debout!" (le 1er décembre 2016)
- Ousmane Sow, Site officiel de l'artiste = Artist's official web site (Paris, France)
- SPLA -- Portail de la Diversité Culturelle: Afrique SudPlanète (Paris, France)Ce site offre les actualités et les liens sur les divers événements culturels au tour du monde francophone.
- Stanford University, Cantor Arts Center -- Collections in African Art (Stanford, California)
- Start : a journal of arts and culture. (Online) -- Kampala, Uganda: Kampala Arts Trust, 2007-The web site includes the archive of back issues since October 2007. "Start has been published four times as a printed magazine between 2007 and 2010, and has been online since December 2010. The website publishes thematic editions filled with special analysis, art critiques, artist interviews and other stories about the arts and culture scene in Kampala and beyond."
- Stevenson Gallery Michael Stevenson (Cape Town and Johannesburg, South Africa)The website of this well-known private gallery, open since 2003, features images from current and past exhibitions, artists' biographies and lists of their exhibitions, exhibition catalogues, and useful related information.
- The Studio Museum in Harlem (New York)The website for this premier art museum featuring information about current and past exhibitions of works by contemporary artists of African descent.
- The Sudan Archaeological Society, Berlin (Germany)This site in German offers summaries of the activities of the society, contact information, table of contents of the SAG Bulletin, an archive of photos (GIF files), and links to Sudan-related web sites. "The Sudan Archaeological Society in Berlin (SAG) was founded on September 23, 1993. The society's aim is the preservation especially of the ruins at Musawwarat es Sufra/Sudan in collaboration with the Institute for Sudanarchaeology and Egyptology, Humboldt University of Berlin."
- Sudan Archaeological Research Society (c/o The British Museum, London, UK)The website offers information about current research, fieldwork projects, and publications by the Society (founded in 1991). See also: Sudan and Nubia, 1997-2013 (Bulletin of the SARS)
- SUNO Project: Southern University's African Art Collections and Community Programs (Center for African and African American Studies, Southern University, New Orleans)SUNO has over 300 pieces, much of it from the country of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Zaire). "Every summer for the past 5 years, SUNO has been a training site for the Urban Arts Training Program, a summer youth program sponsored by the Orleans Private Industry Council and the Arts Council of New Orleans. High School students are given training in the arts and produce projects which enchance the community."
- Tang Museum: "Environment and Object -- Recent African Art," February 5--July 31, 2011 (Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York)The web site features highlights from an exhibition curated by Lisa Aronson, Associate Professor of Art History at Skidmore College. "Artists include El Anatsui, Zwelethu Mthethwa, and Yinka Shonibare as well as emerging artists such as Bright Ugochukwu Eke, George Osodi, and Nnenna Okore, among others."
- Textille Museum Journal Interviews on African Textile Arts (George Washington University Museum and Textile Museum, Washington, DC) --via VimeoPart of a larger series on "Global Textile Arts": Five videos of interviews with artisans and artists of southern Ghana, southwestern Nigeria, Kano (northern Nigeria), Kongo, and southern Morocco.
- Textile Museum of Canada -- Africa (Toronto, Canada)An online repository of 1,000+ images of African textiles.
--See also: "Magic Squares: The Patterned Imagination of Muslim Africa in Contemporary Culture,"
May 18-November 20, 2011 - Google Arts & Culture: The Digital Archive of "The Timbuktu Manuscripts" (USA)Explore 69 digitized books on this website. "Over 40,000 ancient manuscripts (pages) from private collections and libraries in Timbuktu have been digitized, curated, and made publicly available."
--See also: "Mali Magic": Exploring Mali’s culture: manuscripts, music, monuments, and modern art (2022) - "The True Size of Africa" Exhibition, November 2024-August 2025 at the Völlklinger Hütte World Heritage Site (Völlklingen, Saarland, Germany)"African sculptures and objects from private collections in Saarland enter into a dialogue with the machines and flywheels of the historic blower hall...Industrial modernity, which has repeatedly darkened Europe, meets a multifaceted, illuminating African culture. Major artworks from recent decades are paired with sound and spatial installations realised especially for the show by artists from Africa and the global diaspora."
- Uganda
- Afriart Gallery, Kampala, Uganda"Founded in 2002, Afriart Gallery has since become a leading contemporary art gallery in Africa with a presence in two locations in Kampala. The gallery focuses on original forms of expression and dialogue with the public."
--See especially: Exhibitions - History in Progress Uganda (Andrea Stultiens, The Hague, The Netherlands; Canon Griffin, Kampala, Uganda)An open access digital gallery of photographs from and about Uganda over the last century. "HIPUganda collects photographs by digitising them. Originals stay where they are. By sharing the photographs online HIPUganda opens up the possibility to relate to, respond to, and think about how Uganda’s history is (and is not) available in photographs...These collections include colonial archives and personal collections, images made in a professional context that could range from photojournalism to anthropology, the content of shoeboxes and albums, photographs made by Ugandan and non Ugandan professionals and amateurs."
- Afriart Gallery, Kampala, Uganda
- UNESCO Intercultural Dialogue: Iron Roads in Africa = Les Routes du Fer en Afrique (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Paris, France)This site (in English or French) is a reflection of a UNESCO-sponsored project designed to promote research and public education about the history of iron technology in Africa. It includes summaries of archaeological research, a directory of researchers (compiled in 1994), information about conferences, related films and exhibitions, UNESCO publications, research bibliographies, and links to other sites of interest.
- UNESCO WebWorld--Culture--Africa (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris, France)
- News on the culture front from UNESCO...includes small web collections from the world wide program "Memory of the World" of UNESCO to preserve and to digitize old and valuable images and texts.
- West African postcards
- Slave Trade Archives
- Timbuktu Manuscripts
- UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Danger -- Africa (via Columbia University Libraries)Selections from the full list, with links to documents and image galleries of important archaeological sites.
- Universes in Universe, Worlds of Art -- Africa, Asia, the Americas (Pat Binder & Gerhard Haupt, Berlin, Germany)An up-to-date directory of African museums, exhibitions, conferences and other events....part of a larger project on the visual arts of Africa, the Americas, Asia/Pacific.
- Universität Frankfurt am Main: Der Bildbestand der Deutschen Kolonialgesellschaft in der Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main (Johan Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany)A searchable archive of German colonial pictures/photographs (1887-1936), with a lexicon or encyclopedia of terms....the entire site is in German!
- University of California, Davis: "Re-Imagining Iranian African Slavery: Photography as Material Culture," May 10-June 27, 2018. Walter A. Buehler Alumni Center.
- University of California, Los Angeles--The Fowler Museum
- Mellon African Art Initiative (2019--)
- "The House Was Too Small: Yoruba Sacred Arts from Africa and Beyond," October 29, 2023 to Summer 2024. (Los Angeles, California)
- The Fowler Museum's Digital Collections---Search "Africa"
- University of Florida, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art---African Collections (Gainesville, Florida)A very brief overview of the collections, with only a few highlights.
- University of Iowa Museum of Art--Collections: African Art (Iowa City, Iowa)"The UIMA holds one of the country's finest and most well-respected collections of African art, which is supplemented in the gallery by vivid textual and video displays...In addition to world-renowned pieces from cultures in West and Central Africa, visitors will find works from all regions of the African continent in a wide range of media including figural sculpture, textiles, masks, ceramics, beadwork and metalwork."
--See also: Art & Life in Africa above - University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology : "Daily Life in Sierra Leone" Exhibition (Philadelphia)"In 1936-37, Henry Usher Hall, Curator of General Ethnology, led the first Museum-sponsored expedition to sub-Saharan Africa. He spent seven months conducting ethnographic research among the Sherbro peoples of Sierra Leone." The web site features highlights from the photographs and other materials collected by Hall, accompanying texts, and links to related information on the history of Sierra Leone, to the Africa Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania Museum, and to the University of Pennsylvania Museum Archives.
- University of Southern California, Los Angeles: International Mission Photography Archive, c1860-1960"...offers historical images from Protestant and Catholic missionary collections in Britain, Norway, Germany, France, Switzerland, and the United States. The photographs, which range in time from the middle of the nineteenth to the middle of the twentieth century, offer a visual record of missionary activities and experiences in Africa, China, Madagascar, India, Papua-New Guinea, and the Caribbean."
- University of Virginia, The Fralin Museum of Art: African Art (Charlottesville, Virginia)--See also: "African Art: Aesthetics and Meaning" at the Bayly Art Museum (1993): Artwork of various West African peoples, with some Makonde objects from East Africa.
- "Urban Planning and Urban Architecture in Africa." (February 2017) By Dr. Antoni Folkers.Web dossier. (Library, Documentation, and Information Department, Afrikastudiecentrum=African Studies Centre, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands)
- VANSA--Visual Arts Network of South Africa (Johannesburg, South Africa)"...operates as a development agency for the visual arts in South Africa, promoting connection, access and innovation...providing information, advice and tools for artists, businesses and organisations, as well as providing a platform for research, awareness and discussion around key industry issues."
--Includes a directory of artists, institutions, organizations, and researchers: Art Map South Africa - Fundação Pierre Verger (Salvador, Bahia, Brazil)The official web site --in English, French, and Portuguese-- for the archive of the famous French-born photographer Pierre Verger (1902-1996), who visually documented the peoples and cultures of West and Central Africa and the African diaspora in the Americas--especially Brazil--during the 20th century. The site includes an extensive online photographic collection, information about the foundation's cultural center and Verger's archive in Salvador, and a bibliography on Verger's publications.
- West African Archaeological Association (via University of Ghana, Legon)
- [Founded in Nigeria in 1976] The principal objectives of the W.A.A.A. are the promotion of the West African archaeological study, to reinforce it with a multi-field approach of the West African natural and cultural inheritance."
- Programme : 15th Colloquium, West African Archaeological Association--"Archaeology of West Africa Without Borders," July 10-14, 2017, University of Ghana, Legon
- Yale University Art Gallery: African Art (New Haven, Connecticut)An online image collection, image descriptions, and general museum information. "The collection is strongest in figurative sculpture and masks from West and Central Africa, and terracotta antiquities from the Sahel region. There are also several specialized collections, such as Christian crosses from Ethiopia and miniature masks from Liberia. Several ancient African civilizations are represented, including the Djenne, Nok, Bura, Sokoto, Koma, Sapi, and Benin. Some of the outstanding objects include: a Bamana wooden equestrian figure and a Nok male figure with arms upraised; a Senufo figurative rhythm pounder and a Temne bush cow mask; an elaborate Ejagham skin-covered headdress and a Fante appliquéd banner; a Luba female figure with bowl and a Fang female reliquary figure; and, an elegant Zulu stool."
Curator, Dr. Barbara Plankensteiner. - Yale University Library: RAAI--Ross Archive of African Images (New Haven, Connecticut)James J. Ross Archive of African Images 1590-1920 is a database of approximately 5,000 pictures of African art published before 1921. "The Archive aspires to include all the figurative African objects in books, periodicals, catalogues, newspapers, and other publications appearing in 1920 and earlier -- the oldest dates to 1591. The Archive does not include postcards or pamphlets of limited distribution, and focuses exclusively on figurative art. It is based mainly on the James J. Ross library augmented by publications from the libraries of Yale University and a few other institutions."
- Zamani Project (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
- This site offers mostly photos, maps, and videos of 3-D models of archaeological sites. "...aims to capture spatial information of tangible cultural heritage sites across Africa and other parts of the world. Based on field campaigns and complex in-house processing, the team creates data sets that serve as permanent digital records for future generations."
- Map of All Sites
- Black Monuments Matter Exhibition, October 2020-March 2021: A Virtual Exhibition of Sub-Saharan Architecture
Presented by: Zamani Project - University of Cape Town, South Africa; Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations - Aga Khan University, London, UK - Ashante Shrine, Kumasi, Ghana
- Cape Coast Castle, Ghana
- Djémila, Algeria
- Djingareyber Mosque, Timbuktu, Mali
- Great Mosque of Djenné, Mali
- Fasil Ghebbi, Gondar, Ethiopia
- Fort of São Sebastião, Mozambique
- Gede Ruins, Kenya
- Île de Gorée, Sénégal
- Great Zimbabwe, Masvingo, Zimbabwe
- Rock Churches of Lalibela, Ethiopia
- Shela Mosque, Lamu, Kenya
- Meroë Pyramids, Sudan
- Musawwarat es-Sufra, Sudan
- Yemrehanna Kristos Church, Ethiopia
- Zambia: National Museums Board--via Facebook (Lusaka)"The Board’s principal role is to contribute to the national development effort through the establishment, development and management of sustainable museums for the preservation, presentation and promotion of Zambia’s movable heritage." The National Museums are: Copperbelt Museum in Ndola, Livingstone Museum in Livingstone, Lusaka National Museum in Lusaka and Moto Moto Museum in Mbala; and two community museums: Choma Museum and Crafts Centre in Choma and Nayuma Museum in Mongu.
- Zanzibar Department of Museum and Antiquities (2019) (Tanzania)
This official site featured general information for the visitor/researcher, with brief descriptions of the collections and a few photos. - Zeitz Museum of Contemporary African Art (MOCAA) (Cape Town, South Africa)Since its opening in September 2017, this new institution claims to be the largest museum for African contemporary art on the continent. "Zeitz MOCAA collects, preserves, researches, and exhibits 21st century contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora."
--See especially: Exhibitions and Events -and- Art and Artists - Zimbabwe
- Gallery Delta--Exhibitions (Harare, Zimbabwe)"Established in 1975, Gallery Delta is an important venue in Harare for changing exhibitions of Zimbabwean paintings, graphics, mixed media sculptures and ceramics."
--See also: Artists -and- Gallery Magazine, 1994-2002--Plus: "Art for Art's Sake--the story of Gallery Delta." (2020) --via YouTube.com
- Great Zimbabwe on the Internet
- Cultures.Com: Great Zimbabwe (4 photographs) Africa connection. (Fleetgazelle, San Francisco, California)
- "Great Zimbabwe" "The Literature & Culture of Zimbabwe: The Visual Arts. (Prof. George P. Landow et al., Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island; via University of Singapore)A brief summary of the archaeology and architecture of GZ, with several photographs ; part of a larger website on the Visual Arts of Zimbabwe.
- "Mystery of Great Zimbabwe" by Peter Tyson and David Randall-MacIver Excerpts from: "Lost Tribes of Israel" NOVA Online. (PBS Online, PBS/WGBH Boston, Massachusetts)Brief summaries about the European encounter with GZ, with a few illustrations.
- "Riddle of Great Zimbabwe" by Roderick J. McIntosh (1998) Abstract from: Archaeology. (Online) ; vol. 51, no. 4 (July/Aug 1998) (Archaeological Institute of America, Boston, Massachusetts)A very brief sketch, with only two illustrations.
- Cultures.Com: Great Zimbabwe (4 photographs) Africa connection. (Fleetgazelle, San Francisco, California)
- Gallery Delta--Exhibitions (Harare, Zimbabwe)