African aesthetics

Singer-songwriter Fatoumata Diawara performance at Summer Stage in Central Park New York.

A Maasai tribesman in traditional dress, armed with his spear, looks towards the rising sun from the solitude of the savannah in the Mara North Conservancy in Kenya.

Dakar is home to one of the oldest African art institutions in West Africa.

From artist Papi Wata to designer Aboubakarim Ndaw, a cohort of makers and visionaries are writing the city’s next chapter.

Kente cloth is the most widely known type of African cloth. It is associated with the Akan people of West Africa and each color has a certain meaning.

Arun Kakar talks to renowned photographer Haris Nukem about what to expect from his upcoming show at London's Maddox Gallery

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Melissa Alcena (b. 1988, Nassau, The Bahamas) is a portrait and documentary photographer. Alcena’s practice is the lens through which she reintroduces herself to the Bahamian landscape. Through this exploration and reintroduction, Alcena documents people in situ, expanding the visual tropes often exported from the Caribbean.