HAWASS REQUESTS ROSETTA STONE: WILL BRITISH MUSEUM MAKE A BOLD CONCILIATORY GESTURE?

In an article entitled Egypt asks British Museum for the Rosetta Stone after Louvre victory, the British Daily Telegraph reports that soon  ...

Günter Wallraff: Schwarz auf Weiss

Film erscheint am 22. Oktober

Doku: Günter Wallraff reist durch Deutschland und versucht dabei, Kontroversen und polarisierende Diskussionen unerkannt mit versteckter Kamera zu drehen

Ein Schwarzer reist  ...

DOES TARZAN STILL RULE THE WESTERN IMAGINATION OF AFRICA? COMMENTS ON A DUBIOUS RACIST EXHIBITION AT MUSÉE DU QUAI BRANLY, PARIS, FRANCE

The exhibition, Tarzan! ou Rousseau chez les Waziri (1) presented at the Musée du Quai Branly, in  ...

LOUVRE GIVES IN TO DEMAND OF ZAHI HAWAS FOR THE RETURN OF STOLEN ARTEFACTS. IS THIS THE END OF A STORY OR THE BEGINNING?

According to press reports, France has agreed to return the the five ancient Egyptian frescos that Zahi Hawass claimed had  ...

When Richard Bona's new album Ten Shades Of Blues appears this autumn, ten years will have gone by since his first project, Scenes From My Life (released in 1999), a whole decade. In the case of Cameroonian bassist and singer Richard Bona, it's not  ...

It is now five  months since the issue of looted African terracotta was raised in connection with the exhibition entitled “African Terra Cotta: a Millenary Heritage”, at the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva and brought to the attention of all  ...

In Angel Tungarazas Fotoalbum finden sich weder Familienmitglieder noch bemerkenswerte Ereignisse, die es sich lohnt, auf Zelluloid fest zu halten. Wenn sie einem der zahlreichen Gäste ihr Album reicht, versinken diese in eine Landschaft aus  ...

AFEL BOCUM spielt am 21. September 2009 in BERLIN

Afel Bocoum stammt aus Niafounké, aus dem Norden Malis, wo die Musik die flimmernde Farbe der Wüste und den Rhythmus des Flusses Niger vereint. Die musikalische Laufbahn des studierten  ...

WOULD WESTERN MUSEUMS RETURN LOOTED OBJECTS IF NIGERIA AND OTHER AFRICAN STATES WERE RULED BY ANGELS? RESTITUTION AND CORRUPTION*

Corruption, like tango, requires two partners.

A seminal study by Peju Layiwola, dealt with the question of the  ...