The repatriation of African art is gaining momentum, but a number of highly important and symbolic pieces remain in the hands ...

This practice served as a culturally significant commemoration of African ancestors until colonialism disrupted the art form. As with the many things it disrupted, and demonized, in most parts of ...

In her alternative history, the economic and social devastation wrought by the trans-Atlantic slave trade and European colonialism never ... the environment, art and education.

The southern African country has long used stone sculpture as a form of storytelling to immortalize history. The craft ...

Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon exemplifies the influence of African masks on Cubism. Influenced by traditional mask design in Parisian ethnographic museums, Picasso's work drove him toward ...

Sculptures illustrating Black oppression under British rule in Africa will be showcased at Oxford University to highlight the ...

The Descendants' aim is to interrogate who these new people have become and the kind of conversations they would have with ...

Known collectively as the Benin Bronzes, the objects — on display in several museums in the US and Europe — are often viewed as a case study in colonial ... in its Art of Africa Gallery.

A collection of Zimbabwean stone sculptures will be part of an Oxford exhibition meant to 'contextualize' the legacy of ...