NOMA’s New African Masquerades Exhibit is Remarkable
New African Masquerades, tells the story of four different artists from four different distinct countries in West Africa. There are hundreds of masking traditions. The artists each chose ...
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ECOWAS, EU, And Interpol Set To Hand Over The West African Police Information System (WAPIS) â A New Era Of Data-Driven Security Begins [press release]
The Commission of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), in close collaboration with the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) and with financial support from the ...
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NOMA Highlights Contemporary West African Masquerade Artists
On view at the New Orleans Museum of Art from April 4 through August 10, the exhibition will then embark on parallel tours to venues in North America and Africa.
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In Pursuit of Health: How Medical Concerns Shaped Modernist Architecture
Explore the intersection of architecture and medicine, where sanatoriums revolutionized design principles and promoted health ...
Africa’s first ‘AI factory’ could be a breakthrough for the continent
African tech firm Cassava Technologies announces plans to build the continent’s first “artificial intelligence factory,” in ...
Meet Julian Abele, the Black Architect Who Was a Cornerstone of America’s Gilded Age
This trailblazer was responsible for some of the country’s most striking civic and university campus structures ...
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As Trump Clashes With Europe, Italy’s Meloni Tries to Hold the West Together
ROME—Giorgia Meloni was reluctant to join the video call with European leaders to discuss sending peacekeeping troops to Ukraine, an idea she rejects. When the Italian prime minister ultimately ...
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West Bank Palestinians displaced by Israel's military fear they'll never go home again
MARAH SAAD, Occupied West Bank — Tysir Odeh sits in his office, watching a group of kids run and jump at a playground, taking in the early spring sun. Odeh is the head of this small school ...
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The ‘ghost reporters’ writing pro-Russian propaganda in West Africa
Eight pallbearers – some wearing tracksuits emblazoned with the FIFA logo – carried a coffin on their shoulders. Alongside them, referee whistles echoed the tune of a song being sung by the ...
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The success of Ivory Coast is Africa’s best-kept secret
At the same time, the inflation rate has remained relatively low. It was 3.8% in 2024, against a west African average of 21.6%. The fiscal deficit, though high, is shrinking. Youth unemployment ...
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Why isn’t AFRICOM in Africa? Here’s a look at the command’s history and its uncertain future
STUTTGART, Germany — U.S. Africa Command was in the political crosshairs even before it stood up 18 years ago in Germany’s automotive capital. From the outset, putting a four-star military ...
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A long-lost Klimt painting of an African prince goes on show
The portrait of Prince William Nii Nortey Dowuona — a representative of the Ga people in West Africa, in what is Ghana today — was painted in 1897 and depicts the prince in profile against ...