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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 9 October 2023
06 July 2020
Common Threads explores the ties that bind India and Africa through the material medium of cloth, from antiquity to the present. Cloth made in India has been sold across African markets for millennia, by Indian, African, and European traders. The history of this trade offers perspectives into the rich stories of bi-directorial migrations of peoples, across the Indian Ocean, the exchange of visual aesthetics, and the co-production of cultures in the two geographies.
03 July 2020
In Senegal, graffiti artists engage actively in the fight against the coronavirus, by creating murals relating to Covid-19 on city walls, to spread information and warn the population and also to support healthcare personnel confronting the disease. Realised in a very short time by the ‘Fondation Dapper’, the free online book Le Graffiti pour sauver des vies: l’art s’engage contre le coronavirus au Sénégal preserves some of this street art. It is the subject of our latest Library Highlight!
03 July 2020
03 July 2020
01 July 2020
30 June 2020
'For gathering information about Africa there is no better place in the Netherlands than the library of the African Studies Centre in Leiden'. Marijke Boter wrote an article about the wealth of the ASCL Library on Voertaal.
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11 April 2024