White’s mural, The Contribution of the Negro to American Democracy (1943) at Hampton University is perhaps his best-known work, depicting famous African Americans across history. He saw art as a ...

It is one of the world's most famous pieces of African art and has huge sacred significance for Cameroonians. Sculptures were made of titled royal wives or princesses and would be referred to as ...

Artist Mose, aka Lithium, and host Nyambura WaruingiImage: DW On our trip across the East African metropolis, we board one of the brightly painted matatus — the name of Nairobi's famous buses.

so portraits of African American musicians, much like other markers of status that were long denied to people of color in European-controlled territories, serve as a cultural acknowledgment of their ...