African masquerade ensembles are recognizably carnivalesque, yet not aligned with Carnival as we know it. The exquisite, ...

West African Influences. While the form of Black dandyism originated in Europe, its spirit and aesthetic sensibilities were deeply rooted in West African traditions of adornment and self-presentation.

Africa: Beautiful/Ugly: African and Diaspora Aesthetics. 19 January 2007. Duke University Press (Durham, NC) book listing. In Cameroon, a monumental “statue of liberty” is made from scrap metal.

Surely, some African-Americans have committed these cultural atrocities when it comes to Motherland aesthetics. I’ve come across many a “fake deep” dude in a dashiki who couldn’t tell you ...

Master percussionist Chief Baba Neil Clarke explained that African musical traditions — which included African instruments and aesthetics — significantly shaped American music and led to the ...

Design remains a largely white profession, with Black people still vastly underrepresented – making up just 3% of the design industry, according to a 2019 survey. This dilemma is not new.

“It’s not just for the beauty or aesthetic.” The style can be traced back some 5,000 years in African culture, according to Ntombomzi Lekgoro, a hairstylist in South Africa.

She has taught in South Africa, Britain and the United States, pushing Western establishments toward new thinking about Africa, racial and cultural identity, and their relationship to physical space.

"O Black and Unknown Bards" Most traditional West African societies, the sources of the vast majority of enslaved Africans in the Americas, had dynamic, vibrant, expressive cultures. The languages ...

“It’s not just for the beauty or aesthetic.” The style can be traced back some 5,000 years in African culture, according to Ntombomzi Lekgoro, a hairstylist in South Africa.