Yearly Archives: 2022

Exhibitions of Most Promising Hyper-Realistic Artist in Ghana – Richmond Ametefe

Titled RICHMOND’S PARADIGM: The Book of Eden and Other Conceptions, the exhibition sought to celebrate a collection of hyper-realistic charcoal drawings produced by Richmond...

Mining Truck Explodes in Ghana, Killing Dozens

At least 50 people were feared dead in an explosion in Ghana on Thursday, after a mining truck reportedly carrying explosives collided with a...

Memorial Head (Akan people)

Memorial Head : Since the late sixteenth century, Akan women potters have created ceramic heads and sometimes complete figures to commemorate deceased royals and...

Meet Gus Casely-Hayford, the man on a mission to drag museums into the 21st century

Gus Casely-Hayford, the V&A East’s first director, discovered art in the most tender of ways. As a young boy on a snowy day, lying...

Fertility Figure: Female (Akua Ba)

Akua Ba : According to Akan myth, in the distant past, a woman named Akua could not conceive. Akua sought first the spiritual reason...

Maya Angelou Becomes First Black Woman To Appear On US Quarter

Legendary black activist and poet Maya Angelou is on a new United States quarter which went into circulation on Monday, the US Mint announced. This...

Mansa Musa: The Richest Man in Human History

The word ‘Mansa’ is Mandinka for ‘sultan’ or ’emperor’. In 1312 C.E., the previous Mansa, Abu Bakr II, disappeared at sea aboard a large...

Sidney Poitier, Hollywood’s first Black movie star and Oscar winner, dies at age 94

Sidney Poitier, the groundbreaking actor and enduring inspiration who transformed how Black people were portrayed on screen, and became the first Black actor to...

South Africa’s Anti-apartheid Hero Specifically Asked for a Cheap Coffin and an Eco-friendly Cremation

Anti-apartheid Hero : The Anglican archbishop and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who died Dec. 26 at age 90, had requested that his funeral not...

Meghan Markle To Receive £1 From Newspaper Over Privacy Invasion

Last month, the U.K.’s court of appeal sided with Meghan Markle 's claims that Associated Newspapers violated her privacy and conducted copyright infringement by...

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