FROM THE ARCHIVE: March 6, 2021: If this exhibition was held in the USA, I would first want it to include my Frederick Douglass collection, now housed at the Beinecke Library at Yale University and now available digitally online for all the world to read. I also have several slave narratives in my collection which I would like to see included. I have only one item directly related to the Dutch involvement in slavery which I would have liked to have been included in the current Rijksmuseum exhibition: A Sermon, written by Jacobus Elisa Joannes Capitein, written in 1742, an…
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Wealth is admired by all, but only a handful of people have attained the position of satisfaction as far as wealth, fame, and success. In Africa, the list is even more depleted, and this reflects the hardship faced by Africans. However, according to a majority of the few who have scaled the huddles to attain financial success, the reason why many Africans remain poor can be traced to their personal rules of money. Many African billionaires are in agreement when it comes to the reason why many Africans are poor – indiscipline and reckless disrespect for the rules of money.…
The body of former Chelsea and Newcastle player Christian Atsu is being flown home to Ghana. Atsu was found dead on Saturday following the devastating earthquake in southern Turkey and northern Syria.In a statement released on Sunday morning, Ghana’s foreign ministry said: ‘The Government of Ghana is making arrangements to receive the mortal remains of the late Christian Atsu, a former Black Stars player. The remains will be accompanied by his family and Ghana’s Ambassador to Turkiye on a Turkish airlines flight and will arrive in Accra at 7:40pm, Sunday 19th February, 2023.’ The ministry confirmed that Atsu’s brother and sister were…
Shanequa Gay 16/02/23 at 21:41 pm by admin Shanequa Gay About: Her work draws upon ritual and personal memory, storytelling, fantasy, and the deep well of southern black traditions found in her home place of Atlanta. Gay’s fodder is play, indigenous belief systems and the spirit of African-Ascendant Womyn and girls finding Divinity in self. She is invested in counter narratives, mythology, and the expansion of the black imaginary. Gay engages in this practice through installations, paintings, performance, photography, video and monumental sculptural figures. Gay holds an MFA from Georgia State University and a…
Gonzales County in Texas was one of the places where riding horses and tending to cattle was the first love of many boys in the 1800s. This tradition was not lost on one of the famous African-American cowboys, Addison Jones, who began his career on the Littlefield family ranch. The Littlefield ranch was a family business that started on the outskirts of West Texas before the Civil War, according to America Comes Alive. Jones worked under George Littlefield, a war veteran who retired from active service in 1863 after getting wounded during the Battle of Mossy Creek. The business was…
The mother-daughter team pays tribute by including a tale about the Anansi spider and its cultural influence in their artworks.Rebecca Henry and Akua Shabaka, a mother-daughter team, debuted a collection for fall/winter 2023 that draws inspiration from the fusion of their respective West Indian and African cultures.The atmosphere was created to honor family and an old folktale about a spider that traveled far and endured hardships and, occasionally, his own folly. Just adjacent to the curtain opening, where the models emerged, an altar was placed in the front.It was a dedication to Akua’s father and Rebecca’s family members, and pictures…
Former Nigeria hurdler, sprinter and jumper, Seigha Porbeni, has revealed that a majority of the nation’s track and field stars face the risk of serious medical issues, if the government fails to stop the current trend of turning Nigeria into a marathon organising nation. “The truth is that we are only exposing our athletes to health problems because the marathon and half marathon races these days are too close to one another,” he told The Guardian. Porbeni, who is currently the Technical Director of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria (AFN), stated that the level of poverty in the country is beclouding…
What is the texture and frequency of living with death emaMpondweni, in the Eastern Cape province, located in South Africa’s blighted zones of abandonment? These are places where the state serves as an absentee landlord. Here, death is an intimate constant. I am acquainted with its grooves and surfaces. Its wailing and silences. My book, Riotous Deathscapes sits with death. It emerged out of the place I thought with and wrote about rather than from a disciplinary point of view. This necessitated wide reading for writing about black life in zones of abandonment where death homes. While writing, some of…
Tumelo Mailula of Sundowns challenged by David Sandan Abagna of Al Hilal during the 2023 CAF Champion League match between Mamelodi Sundowns and Al Hilal at Loftus Versfeld Stadium in Pretoria on 11 January 2023 ©Samuel Shivambu/BackpagePix by Staff Reporter Tuesday Feb 14, 2023. 15:14 Mamelodi Sundowns head coach Rulani Mokwena has set his side a target of 10 points in the CAF Champions League group stages after beating Al Hilal 1-0 on matchday 1.Cassius Mailula’s 25th-minute goal settled the Group B tie at Loftus Versfeld on Saturday as the Brazilians put early pressure on continental rivals Al Ahly.Mokwena insisted…
That the African region is home to majority of the world’s longest-ruling heads of state is no news. According to a 2021 Council on Foreign Relations report, “Since 1960, a dozen heads of state across sub-Saharan Africa have held office for more than thirty years.” A further breakdown reveals that five sitting African heads of state (Equatorial Guinea’s Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, Cameroon’s Paul Biya, the Republic of Congo’s Daniel Sassou Nguesso, Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni, and Eritrea’s Isaias Afwerki, respectively) have held office for more than three decades each, while “More than a dozen other African heads of state have…