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'Restitution is important but it is not essential': the African museums building a homegrown cultural revival

The Art Newspaper 27 Nov 2020

“African cultural heritage can no longer remain a prisoner of European museums”, tweeted French President Emmanuel Macron on 28 November 2017 ... But key African museums, art centres and cultural leaders are not holding their breath for permanent returns to the continent....

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NIA Centre opens downtown community engagement center

Grand Rapids Business Journal 25 Nov 2020

“Our new community engagement center is a critical step in the NIA Centre’s incredible journey of bringing a world-class African American cultural center to the city of Grand Rapids .” ... NIA is leading an effort to place an African American cultural center that it hopes will be the ......

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Thabo Mbeki library will house African leaders’ papers & artefacts

Sowetan Live 22 Nov 2020

... on African perspectives....

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The Manchester campaign for black people's dignity in the mental health system

Manchester Evening News 18 Oct 2020

Paula King is one of a number of black professionals who are raising funds to build a culturally appropriate mental health centre for Caribbean and African men and women ... ....

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Black History Month events

Islington Tribune 09 Oct 2020

... work of 200 women writers of African descent ... Find out about the first black cultural arts centre, the history of the African National Congress, Islington’s Egyptian links and the legacies of black revolutionary politicians and activists, such as Claudia Jones and Angela Davis....

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Sir David Adjaye to receive top architecture award

Belfast Telegraph 30 Sep 2020

Adjaye Associates’ credits include the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, in Washington, and the Nobel Peace Centre in Oslo, Norway. Smithsonian National Museum of African American Arts and Culture, Washington DC by David Adjaye (Photographer Nic Lehoux)....

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South Africa: Remembering Achmat Dangor, the South African Novelist Who Redefined Identity

All Africa 19 Sep 2020

He was a cultural leader at the centre of the Congress of South African Writers, a tireless development ......

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Ethiopia: Ethiopia Receives Support in Preparation of World Heritage Nomination Files

All Africa 17 Sep 2020

... of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Properties (ICCROM), School of African Heritage (E .......

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Ethiopia's Tigray region holds vote in defiance of federal government

France24 10 Sep 2020

It's a cultural centre set to open in Paris's Goutte d'Or neighbourhood - one of the epicentres of the ......

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Is this DA mayor the epitome of black excellence?

Independent online (SA) 07 Sep 2020

I think we’ve got strong leadership and the centre holds, and is in it for the right reasons ... No ... We need a strong centre.”. Baloyi had said earlier in the interview that “I’m an African. I’m very cultural. I value my culture” ... He is happy to be “leading in an era that is defining South African politics, in entrenching the fluidity of politics”....

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US university investigating professor who apparently pretended to be black

The Irish Times 05 Sep 2020

first North African Blackness, then US rooted Blackness, then Caribbean rooted Bronx Blackness” ... We cannot comment further on personnel matters.” ... Her biography on the university website lists imperialism and colonialism and African-American history among her areas of expertise. Her writings centre heavily on issues of African culture and diaspora ... ....

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WATCH | Pap en sous on the go? PapStix is SA's new ready-to-eat meal

Sowetan Live 01 Sep 2020

The meal was designed and made ......

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The UK Needs A Black History Museum Of Its Own

Vogue 23 Aug 2020

Arike Oke, managing director of Black Cultural Archives (BCA), the national charity for documenting, preserving, and celebrating the heritage of people of African descent in the UK, agrees that Britain needs more cultural spaces where Blackness is centred....