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‘Woongo, Behind the Masks’: Photos capture culture, people of West Africa

Photographer Selim Harbi was drawn to West Africa for its culture and its handicrafts – specifically, its masks. When he visited the region in 2014, he spent time asking people all about the masks: ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

African masks and sculptures displayed in original context in ‘Africa in Context’ exhibition at Mesa College

As a young girl growing up in southeastern San Diego’s Shelltown neighborhood, Denise Rogers spent time flipping through the pages of Time and Life magazines her mother kept on their coffee table. At ...
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West African masks and cultural systems / edited by Sidney L. Kasfir

Reviewed by Kris L. Hardin in African studies review (Atlanta, GA) 34 (1) April 1991, pages 137-138. Contents I. Masking in Nigeria: Igala masks / R.A. Sargent -- The Gelede masked dance and Ketu ...
The Advocate

Step inside the world of African masquerade artists with this New Orleans catalog and exhibition

“New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations,” New Orleans Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 264 pages. The New Orleans Museum of Art’s New African Masquerades exhibition, ...
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National Museum of African Art Presents “Bruce Onobrakpeya: The Mask and the Cross”

Note: Digital press kit is available through Dropbox. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art will showcase works by sculptor and printmaker Bruce Onobrakpeya, considered one the fathers of ...
OnMilwaukee

African Cultural Festival to highlight & celebrate diversity of African diaspora

It’s been over a decade since Milwaukeeans gathered en masse to celebrate African culture and heritage. But, thanks to the work of three local women, the African Cultural Festival is slated to take ...