Month: September 2024

Arts and aesthetics reflect a people’s traditions, values, practices, pervasive realities, and external relationships. In the traditional African setup, art is intricately bound up with spirituality and culture. Thus Somjee (1992, 49) observes that “… art objects are not mediators of aesthetics but of ritual processes and institutional law that define and maintain relationships of … Read more

Almost all of Africa’s ancient artistic heritage and natural history collections are preserved in European countries: the United Kingdom, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Vienna, and Belgium. Difficult as it may be to articulate the magnitude of this reality, it is even more difficult to learn how such previous cultural identities were looted and stolen from their birthplace. The restitution … Read more