The oldest known cave painting in Africa (and perhaps the world) is a stunning 73,000-year-old cross-hatch pattern on a rock ...

White’s mural, The Contribution of the Negro to American Democracy (1943) at Hampton University is perhaps his best-known work, depicting famous African Americans across history. He saw art as a ...

Zimbabwean art historian Barnabas Ticha Muvhuti travelled by road to five southern African countries – Botswana, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Namibia, Mozambique and Zambia – in pursuit ...

Esther Mahlangu’s retrospective of her world famous art was first shown in Cape Town and has now opened in Johannesburg. The 89-year-old South African visual artist is best known for her ...

so portraits of African American musicians, much like other markers of status that were long denied to people of color in European-controlled territories, serve as a cultural acknowledgment of their ...

"Another icon has fallen to Covid 19," John Kani, one of the country's most famous actors ... that the arts, and artists in general, are traditionally resilient in South Africa.