Heritage Month: South African cultures and their fashion
This Heritage Month, we take a look at some of the traditional clothing worn by our beautiful nation.
Educate. Inspire. Empower: CVHS Action in Africa
The CVHS’ Action in Africa club is dedicated to improving the Community Center by raising money through various fundraisers. One of their most prominent fundraisers was holding a photobooth at the 2020 CVHS Valentines Day Dance which raised a sizable profit for the center
Important advances to discover origins and evolution of modern African cultures
The archaeological site of Panga ya Saidi, in Kenya, which is about 78,000 years old, is the only site in eastern Africa that allowed researchers to document for the first time, the periods ranging from the Middle Stone Age to the Late Stone Age.
Dutch-born Artist Carla Kranendonk’s Colourful Works Are Happiness On A Canvas
Filled with joie de vivre, the internal world of Dutch-born artist Carla Kranendonk is brought to life through the women of colour on canvas which serve to highlight independence, empowerment and pure African beauty
Serviam Girls Academy students celebrate African culture, history
NEW CASTLE — February is a special month at Serviam Girls Academy. The students at the New Castle School — many of whom are African American or Latino — always...
#HERITAGEMONTH: Healers shift perceptions
The heritage month is important for sangomas, according to traditional healers. Yesterday the country celebrated African Traditional Medicine day. After a near-death experience in the mid 1990s, Fredericks met a sangoma who told him about his calling. Adamant he was no sangoma prospect, he refused to become an “ithwasa” (initiate), eventually heeding his calling after a life of crime and drugs in Heideveld.
“Caravans of Gold” exhibition presents first-of-its-kind look into medieval African art, trade
In “Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Arts, Culture and Exchange Across Medieval Saharan Africa,” which will open at the Block Museum of Art this Saturday, Berzock weaves an artistic narrative of a wealthy African king, the journey of gold from West Africa to Florence, Italy and the expansion of Islamic culture and language.
Kenyans give interesting reasons why women wear waist beads
Donning a waist bead also known as belly beads is a common practice among many Kenyan and African women and a cultural practice to serve many celebratory purposes.
From birth to death: an archive of vanishing African rituals seeks a home
Whirling masked spirits clad in raffia and laughing children daubed with clay dance across the pages of “African Twilight”, the latest book by two photographers documenting rapidly vanishing rituals across the continent.
African Migrants Strive to Preserve Their Cultural Heritage
To experience a taste of African culture deep inside the Big Apple, visitors – including many Senegalese – turn to Le Petit Senegal (Little Senegal), a West African neighborhood in West Harlem, New York.