This online exhibition shares the work of Bowdoin students and faculty who have worked with staff, and is structured to reflect the exhibition’s conceptual development into four thematic and ...

“New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations” offers a close look at contemporary West African masquerade focusing on artists from Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Nigeria, and Sierra ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ricci Shryock/Travel + Leisure Sunset over the Atlantic Ocean. “This is all the result of a dream,” Mouhamed Seyni Guèye, the imam ...

Benin’s new Museum of West African Art (MOWAA) has delayed its opening following protests at a preview event. Demonstrators linked to the Oba’s palace opposed the museum’s authority over Benin’s ...

LAGOS, Nigeria — Protesters in Nigeria have disrupted this week's opening of a major museum of West African art, where local disputes over the world-renowned Benin Bronzes have already kept them from ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Slide kit of West Africa Art published by Sanders Art Media in Los Angeles, California, in 1987. The images are mostly of masks but also include ...

Missouri Southern State University kicked off its themed international semester this week with “The Art of West Africa — Select Works from the MSSU African Art Collection.” The exhibit runs through ...

In a historic moment for Africa’s cultural and artistic heritage, the Museum of West African Art (MOWAA) opened its doors in November in Benin City, Nigeria. An ambitious project that has been years ...

Sunset over the Atlantic Ocean. "This is all the result of a dream," Mouhamed Seyni Guèye, the imam of Dakar's Mosque of the Divinity, told me as we walked its grounds. One night in 1973, Guèye ...