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Music Is A Time Machine: Sons of Kemet Interviewed

The Quietus 12 May 2021

In the context of the album, this connection with ancestral knowledge is filtered through a specific reading of African history, particularly the work of Senegalese historian Cheikh Anta Diop, whose work, Hutchings says, sought to find “a unified centre to African ontological thought”.

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PODCAST | Amanda Gray on global art law and trends in the African art market

Business Day 28 Apr 2021

We discuss the recent surge of interest in African art and the drivers for the rise in artists, collectors and curators from the continent, and how this is disrupting and decentralising the cultural centre from Western Europe, alongside the rise of interest in Asian art.

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NIA Centre to host interview with African American painter

Grand Rapids Business Journal 27 Apr 2021

A cultural and arts nonprofit will host a virtual event with a nationally known African American artist this week ... NIA is leading an effort to place an African American cultural center that it hopes will be the foremost destination, resource and opportunity for sharing and expressing African American culture.

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NCAC, ASAUK End Workshop As 60 History Teachers Receive Training

All Africa 16 Apr 2021

National Centre for Arts and Culture (NCAC) and its partner, African Studies Association United Kingdom (ASAUK) Sunday ended its training workshops for 60 history teachers ....

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Row erupts over bid to revive London's historic Caribbean cultural hub

The Observer 28 Mar 2021

The West Indian Cultural Centre (WICC) in Wood Green was ... It will also change its name to the African Caribbean Cultural Centre to reflect a postcolonial emphasis ... An architect’s proposals for a new African Caribbean Cultural Centre, which would include affordable housing.

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Queen Afua Wellness Tour brings African Americans to Ghana on healing and unity journey

Ghana Web 25 Mar 2021

Queen Afua is an African American Author, Natural Healer and Midwife ... DuBois Centre for Pan-African Culture, and the Cape Coast Dungeons. They will experience Ghana through food, arts and culture when they visit places like the Art Centre and Makola Market in the heart of Accra.

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Queen Afua wellnes tour birngs African Americans to Ghana on healing, unity journey

Ghana Web 18 Mar 2021

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Queen Afua wellness tour brings African Americans to Ghana on healing, unity journey

Ghana Web 18 Mar 2021

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‘World class’ African American cultural center eyed by Grand Rapids nonprofit

Michigan Live 13 Mar 2021

It renamed itself NIA Centre, and shifted its focus to opening a cultural center in Grand Rapids, not a museum ... Upton said the cultural center will be different in that it will be “the foremost destination, resource and opportunity for sharing and expressing African American culture.” That means more events and activities as opposed to exhibits.

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Fake UDS lecturer, one other remanded for murder

Ghana Web 10 Mar 2021

A third suspect, Kofi Somoah is on the run ... Brief facts ... The two, the prosecutor said, were armed with a knife and orange nylon robe respectively and drove Wendy to the Centre for Research Into African Tradition and culture popularly known as AHLIJAH at Japan Motors near Lakeside Estate at about 12.20 am on December 15, 2018 ... Cause of death ... .

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MTV Base introduces The Culture Squad and new VJs

Independent online (SA) 24 Feb 2021

This platform will give African talent a bigger stage to showcase their distinct originality, highlighting how they are influencing cultural shifts, setting trends and leading the conversation through a VJ centred content portfolio. VJs across the network’s Pan African platforms ...

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NIA Centre hits $50K funding milestone

Grand Rapids Business Journal 17 Feb 2021

“We are excited to see the NIA Centre continue (its) efforts to establish an African American cultural center in Grand Rapids,” said Janean Couch, program director at the Grand Rapids Community Foundation ... The space is being used to continue plans for the African American cultural ...

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Psychology carries a dark past: how the discipline can be Africanised

Beijing News 17 Feb 2021

We conclude that theorising about African experiences is possible if we shift from Western-centred ways of knowing and move towards an Africa-centred psychology ... This can be fixed by developing a psychology that's centred on African knowing, cosmology and worldview.

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An Oral History of the COVID-19 Crisis: 'I was strolling through land once ruled by the infamous dacoits of Chambal'

Yahoo Daily News 13 Feb 2021

Read full article. Andrew Menezes13 February 2021, 7.13 am·4-min read. Andrew Menezes is a Mumbai-based IT professional ... Soon, it began ... Next on the map was Indore ... Also See ... No COVID-19 deaths in 15 states and UTs over past 24 hrs, South African variant not found in India till now, says Centre. Read more on Arts & Culture by Firstpost. TRENDING ... .

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FireFish announces year-round arts programming

The Morning Journal 06 Feb 2021

An accomplished Lorain artist whose work focuses on portraits of noteworthy African American men and women, Pye has worked with the Harrison Cultural Arts Centre to create an arts space for both youth and adults where they often create portrait work around this theme.