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Cameroon Mon 16-08-2010

World Cup Art: The Day before Yesterday & the Day After Tomorrow
By Mwalimu George Ngwane|AfricanColours.com

Herve Momo's exhibition 'Brushes From The Den' is a combination of individual art and collective prowess as well as Cameroon’s celebration of football excellence.

Congo, (DRC) Mon 21-06-2010

Kinshasa Ville Des Couleurs II
By Bikoko Baudouin

Kinshasa, una ciudad de colores. Colores, junto con varios sonidos y olores. El nacimiento todo dar con el ritmo. Ritmo causando multitud. Las multitudes en todas las arterias. Las arterias o desfile de las mujeres balanceándose...

Cameroon Mon 24-05-2010

Celebrating 50 years of Artistic Achievements in Cameroon
By Mwalimu George Ngwane/AfricanColours.com

This essay seeks to shine some light on some of the artistic benchmarks since Independence and Reunification as leverage to mentor young art professionals in Cameroon.

Congo, (DRC) Thu 01-04-2010

Peintre Moke: 'Painter Reporter' Of City Life
Source: contemporaryafrica.com

At the age of ten, living by hand to mouth, Moke discovered that there was a market for paintings, he taught himself to render landscapes on discarded pieces of cardboard.

Central African Republic Mon 15-02-2010

Here's Looking At Me: The Many Faces Of Samuel Fosso
By Jessica Taylor / The Guardian.co.uk

Central Africa Republic photographer Samuel Fosso has spent more than 20 years obsessed with one subject - himself. Jessica Taylor reports.

Cameroon Tue 24-02-2009

Prisoners as Cultural Practitioners
By Mwalimu George Ngwane

For a long time, economic models paid less attention to the organic link between poverty reduction and cultural development. Yet that link has become so vital that agencies and cultural professionals have been awakened to the reality that cultural...

Cameroon Mon 16-02-2009

Telefilms: Telling Our Own Tales
By Mwalimu George Ngwane

Cinema has a vital role in our development because it is a means of education, information and consciousness raising as well as a stimulus to creativity.

Cameroon Wed 21-01-2009

Make Art, Not Waste
Mwalimu George Ngwane

Tons and tons of bottle-tops, shopping bags, and plastic water bottles turn our neighborhoods into stink-factories, while African governments and city councils watch. Yet the potential for art is enormous. But more than that is it not about time that large...

Cameroon Tue 13-01-2009

Every Pound and Pence
By Mwalimu George Ngwane

The mass media in Africa pay scant attention to the arts and culture while public policies do not offer help and talent while vibrant remains poorly paid. In this Op Ed piece on how the arts remain underdeveloped in Cameroon by George Ngwane, offers an...

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Shades of Time: An exhibition by Kaafiri Kariuki at the Creativity Gallery National Museum of Kenya

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Title: Making Ways
Name: Tabitha Wa Thuku
Country: Kenya
Medium: Mixed media on heavy canvas
Size: 149 X 140 cms
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