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African art African art
African art art created by the peoples south of the Sahara. The predominant art forms are masks and figures, which were generally used in religious ceremonies. The decorative arts, especially in textiles and in the ornamentation of everyday tools, were a vital art in nearly all African cultures.... Read more
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African Socialism African Socialism
SOCIALISMS, AFRICAN. Socialist ideas have been in Africa before the advent of colonialism at the turn of the nineteenth century. African socialisms represent various combinations of African thinkers, politicians, and activists' absorption with and reconfiguring of nineteenth-and twentieth-century... Read more
John T. Biggers John T. Biggers
John Biggers 1924–2001 Artist and educator Created Afrocentric Artwork Established Art Department at TSU Traveled to Africa Became Subject of Retrospective Exhibition Sources As a painter, muralist, illustrator, and sculptor, John Biggers has made innumerable contributions to American art... Read more
Islam in Africa Islam in Africa
Islam: Africa It was the long, drawn-out confrontation of the seventh century c.e. between the emerging Islamic caliphate and the declining Roman Empire over the Mediterranean African shores, and the subsequent breakdown of the empire, that created favorable conditions for the establishment of the... Read more
Black Consciousness Black Consciousness
BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS. Black consciousness is the name of a black nationalist political movement originating in South Africa during the 1960s and 1970s. It proclaimed the necessity of black South Africans to rely on themselves for liberation and to claim South Africa as an African nation. Black... Read more
Edmonia Lewis Edmonia Lewis
Edmonia Lewis American sculptor Edmonia Lewis (c. 1840-c. 1909), of African-American and Native American back ground, overcame tremendous odds and the effects of a terrorist attack she survived as a young woman to become a successful artist working in Rome, Italy. Long forgotten, Lewis's... Read more
Fulani Fulani
Fulani , people of W Africa, numbering approximately 14 million. They are of mixed sub-Saharan African and Berber origin. First recorded as living in the Senegambia region, they are now scattered throughout the area of the Sudan from Senegal to Cameroon. Both as a sedentary and as a nomadic people,... Read more
patron patron
patron [Lat.,=like a father], one who lends influential support to some person, cause, art or institution. Patronage existed in various ancient cultures but was primarily a Roman institution. In Roman law the lord was patronus (protector or defender) in relation to his freedmen and to others,... Read more
Isak Dinesen Isak Dinesen
Isak Dinesen , pseud. of Baroness Karen Blixen, 1885-1962, Danish author, who wrote primarily in English. In 1914 she married Baron Blixen and went to live in British East Africa, on a coffee plantation. She was divorced in 1921 and took over the management of the plantation where she lived... Read more

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