The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MoCAA) has named independent curator Koyo Kouoh as its next executive director and chief curator. Kouoh succeeds Mark Coetzee, who resigned in May 2018 after the institution’s...
A South African artist who has pioneered the use of cow dung in contemporary art, in hard-hitting pieces that have confronted torture and colonisation, was announced this week as one...
The organisers of the Nollywood Week Film Festival have unveiled the official selection for this year’s edition slated for May 9-12, 2019at the Cinema l’Arlequin. The selection is made up...
Now streaming on all platforms, The Omenka Pod is a bi-monthly series that celebrates the best of art, business and luxury-lifestyle on the African continent. This podcast aims to provide...
With its colourful swirling fabric panels, the African Yorùbá masquerade costume known as the egúngún mask is both a potent symbol of belief and a source of entertainment. Worn by...
At this spring’s 58th Venice Biennale, AD100 architect Sir David Adjaye will design Ghana’s first national pavilion. Inspired by classical Ghanaian structures, Adjaye’s design (a collaboration with curator Nana Oforiatta Ayim) will...
From March 21 to 24, 2019, iREPRESENT International Documentary Film Festival (iREP) will present its 9th edition at Freedom Park, Broad Street, Lagos, and the Nigerian Film Corporation, Ikoyi, Lagos. This...
Uncharted Lands and Trackless Seas by Simphiwe Ndzube at Stevenson is his debut solo exhibition with the gallery. Through painting, sculpture and installation, Ndzube stages an introduction to his imaginative universe,...
From March 8 to July 28, 2019, Haus der Kunst will present Triumphant Scale, an exhibition by Ghanaian artist El Anatsu focusing on the triumphant and monumental quality of El Anatsui’s...
“I think of the figures in my work as time travelling, fantastical, alternate selves. The landscapes they traverse are simultaneously futuristic and prehistoric. As such, Time, History, Space, Place and...