Arts and Culture

Every summer, French-born designer, art director and photographer Pierre-Christophe Gam visited a new African country with his Cameroonian father and Egyptian-Chadian mother, and this multicultural heritage and upbringing shaped his…

AFRO ear lobe uniqueness  [Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons.]

Located in the port city of Pidjiguiti, this is a monument to the more than fifty workers who were killed by police in response to a strike organized by the…

Aime Parfait Gueswede, the artist known as Cesaire, uses plastic to create his art create large installations that illustrate his vision of the socio-political crisis in Burkina Faso. Featured in…

Some of my AFRICAN friends are art from head to toe. One of them: soundmaker Steloo [Photo credit: Iara Lee.]

Polish Street Artist NeSpoon PL will be featured at the Chernobyling fest at the end of August, as the artist hosts a one day workshop of her signature web designs. NeSpoon’s…

For those who are interested in Angola, the new book by Daniel Ribant was just released and features our friend Eric Lafforgue’s photo on the cover, with a photo he…

We are excited to have a chapter on this book “Lok-Sanskriti”, a journal on Indigenous Cultural Heritage of North East India, that Folk Culture Research Center of North East India…

Martenitsi tied to a blossoming tree, a symbol of approaching spring Blossoming Magnolia full of tied Martenitsi. These days we also tie them as bracelets and i got my first…

Zohra – The Afghan Women’s Orchestra winner of the 2017 Freemuse Award The students of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music (ANIM) defy the odds against them as the first…