Articles with keyword "Africa"
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Threads of the Imagination
Ghanaian kente cloth has become a symbol of pride and identity around the world.
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The Reach of African Music
Three Los Angeles museums explore the complexities of music as it moves from one continent to another.
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Voices of the Slave Trade
A captive and an owner give firsthand accounts of the transatlantic voyage.
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Crocodiles and Canoes
From terracotta heads to steel sculptures, a new exhibition takes viewers across seven millennia in the Niger Delta.
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On-Site with NEH: A Dakar Journal
Twenty-five high school teachers are immersed in French-speaking West Africa.
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Faces of the Renaissance
A new exhibition at the Walters Museum explores race and identity to ask the burning question, Who's your daddy?
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From Maxi Voom Voom to Afropop
Georges Collinet was a rock ’n’ roll-playing, Cold War DJ; now he's an elder stateman of world music.
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The Cone of Africa . . . Took Shape in Lisbon
Early Portuguese cartographers traced the coast of the continent with astounding accuracy.
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Livingstone in a New Light
Long indecipherable letters, written in ink made from crushed seeds, are now readable through spectral imaging.




