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Saturday, 19 September 2020

African

African(s) may refer to:

Anything from or pertaining to Africa:

African people, people who live in Africa or trace their ancestry to indigenous inhabitants of Africa
- Ethnic groups of Africa
African cuisine
African culture
African languages
African music

African people, people who live in Africa or trace their ancestry to indigenous inhabitants of Africa

Ethnic groups of Africa

Ethnic groups of Africa

African grey parrot, an Old World parrot

Books and radio

The African (short story), autobiographical story by French author J. M. G. Le Clézio

The Africans (radio program)

Music

"African" a song by Peter Tosh from his 1977 album Equal Rights (album)

The Africans (band)

Publishing

African Business, a monthly magazine covering business events across Africa

African Communist, a political magazine published in Johannesburg

African Film (magazine), Nigerian weekly magazine

Latest News for: African artists

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Ubuntu | Athens | September 19 - March 18

Kathimerini 19 Sep 2020

Sixty-six works by 34 contemporary African artists from the Harry David Art Collection are being exhibited by the National Museum of ......

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Things to do in Durban

Independent online (SA) 19 Sep 2020

Features Izimo Ezisizungezile (The Circumstances Around Us) until October 4, which brings together works by four artists addressing diverse aspects of South African life including spirituality, culture, access to drinking water, and environmental degradation....

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Meet the Black millennial art curator who was tapped by auction house Christie's for an ...

Business Insider 18 Sep 2020

Ross-Sutton is known for highlighting the work of Black artists, and her collaboration with Christie's led to the "Say It Loud " exhibit that showcased artwork from all over the African diaspora ... The year before, the website found that only 8.8% of artists represented by top New York galleries are African American, while 80% are white....

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Meet the Black millennial art curator who was tapped by auction house Christie's for an exhibit, reps an artist Beyoncé featured in 'Black Is King,' and worked on a Zendaya photoshoot

The Times of India 18 Sep 2020

... to elevate the next generation of Black artists ... Ross-Sutton is known for highlighting the work of Black artists, and her collaboration with Christie's led to the "Say It Loud …" exhibit that showcased artwork from all over the African diaspora....

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'More durable' Toronto sign takes its place outside City Hall

Toronto Sun 18 Sep 2020

Advertisement ... The inaugural wrap, designed by local artist Danilo McCallum, is entitled Patterns of the People — incorporating African fabric patterns as an homage to Toronto’s diverse African-descendant community. / ... The wrap, Tory said, was chosen in recognition of the United Nations’ International Decade for People of African Descent ... On Twitter ... ....

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Omar Badsha: Recording the roles of the ordinary

Mail Guardian South Africa 18 Sep 2020

Over the past 20 years Saho has extended its research programmes to include South African historical timelines and produced profiles and features of artists like Dumile Feni, as well as lesser known but no less significant political activists like Paul David, who died recently, ......

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Review: The voyeuristic allure of Art21, PBS’ ‘Art in the Twenty-First Century’

The Los Angeles Times 18 Sep 2020

Every two years, a number of hour-long programs burrow deep into the artistic process to observe how artists think and work. The only narrators are the artists themselves ... This season, roughly half of each 15-minute segment watches a different artist at work in the studio ... Episode 1 centers on artists working in London....

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'Great ARTdoors' piece highlights Champaign artist's therapeutic exercise

The News-Gazette 18 Sep 2020

In the end, she had made what she called an African doll ... “I noticed that it wasn’t hard to think,” said Pleasure, an artist by trade ... Pleasure is a seamstress among other artistic endeavors that include poetry, dance and jewelry design ... up with her family and artistic interests....

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Travel to Africa With Major Lazer Via 'Chasing The Sound' Documentary: Exclusive Trailer

Billboard 18 Sep 2020

article-overlay-handle js-fitvids-content"> ... Chasing The Sound focuses on the Afrobeats genre and how it has become a global phenomenon via African artists including Sarkodie, Amaarae, Efya, Teni and Mr. Eazi, the latter of whom features on Major Lazer's most recent single, "Oh My Gawd ." ... 28. ....

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Now Hear This: New music from Sam Smith, Marika Hackman, lordkez and Tems, plus spotlight ...

The Independent 18 Sep 2020

It looks likely that we’ll be reduced to dancing around our kitchens this winter, as reports that a second lockdown is imminent continue to rumble on ... A fantastic new find is South African-born artist lordkez, real name Keziah Zoë Meyers ...   ... ... My spotlight artist this week is Anjimile, who just released their debut album, Giver/Taker ... ....

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Alicia Keys review, ALICIA: Self-titled album shows singer rattling between a range of identities

The Independent 18 Sep 2020

Many of the fresh flavours come courtesy of a terrific contributing cast – she's roped in everyone from Diamond Platnumz (who became the first sub-Saharan African artist to reach a billion YouTube streams in June) through to England’s 2017 Mercury Prize-winner Sampha, and snappy rhyme spitter Tierra Whack....

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deVon Russell Gray: ‘My work is a mirror’

MinnPost 18 Sep 2020

According to Americans for the Arts, artists and creative workers are among the most severely affected segment of the nation’s workforce ... In 2019, he was awarded one of the inaugural Jerome Hill Artist Fellowships, a two-year grant for early-career artists ... Courtesy of the artist ... One of the artists I was hipped to this year is Dread Scott....

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Stonebwoy Spits Hot Fire On His "Blaze Dem" Freestyle

Vibe Magazine 17 Sep 2020

The internationally renowned West African artist developed his own distinctive musical style, which he describes as Afro-Dancehall, fusing Jamaican dancehall and patois with Afrobeats, hip hop slang, and the local dialect Ewe ... a South African rapper who signed to Def Jam in March....