By Nii B. Andrews. Asafo companies were an indigenous militia that could be mobilized both for war and in peace…
[THE QUEEN IDIA IVORY MASK.] It made sense that Nigerians wanted the mask to act as a mascot for a festival…
[GALAMSEY UNCHAINED] “Yet, unlike the fools in our midst who leave a crater-ridden ‘moon-type landscape’ wherever they engage in galamsey…
By Nii B. Andrews. The remote part of Western Scotland has long been rumored as a legendary repository for arcane…
[ON THE RECENT FIRE AT THE UCT LIBRARY] Interview with UCT academic SHANNON MORREIRA. QUESTION: Why is the African Studies…
By Nii B. Andrews. The painting ANANSESEM by the Ghanaian master, Kobina Bucknor, is an excellent example of his aesthetic…
By Nii B. Andrews Significant portions of Nubian lands were submerged when Lake Nasser and Lake Nubia were formed as…
By Nii B. Andrews. In 2017, Francis Kéré was praised for being ‘an alchemist working with local materials and technology…
By Nii B. Andrews. Zongo or Zango is an old [Hausa] term for a caravan resting place just outside a…
By Nii B. Andrews. The College Art Association, the largest and oldest scholarly and professional association in the field of…