The Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami (MOCA), South Florida’s oldest and only museum dedicated exclusively to contemporary art, will kick off Art Basel week in Miami with a thought provoking exhibition featuring contemporary artist, George Edozie.
His Majesty, lgwe Nnaemeka Alfred Achebe, was born in Onitsha Nigeria in 1941. Onitsha is located in the state of Anambra in the Federal Republic of Nigeria. After earning his BA in Chemistry from Stanford and an MBA from Columbia, he enjoyed a 30-year career with the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria, where he was appointed to the board of directors and managed of the Eastern Division of the company which was responsible for the production of one-quarter of Nigeria’s s oil output (500,000 barrels per day).
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How do we understand the experiences of black women domestic workers who worked in Klan homes during the 1960s? How do we make sense of Aibileen and Minny’s character in 2011? How do we understand Stockett’s notion of “sisterhood”? What does sisterhood mean between two unequal relations that are divided by power and race? How do we understand the complex class relationship between madams and their maids around the world?
Issues of Our Time on The Help is a new section of the award-wining peer-reviewed JENdA: A Journal of Culture and African Women Studies (ISSN: 1530-5686)devoted to prompt and timely analysis of pressing issues of national or international concerns by scholars, activists, and intellectuals.
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Africa House is an Africa and Diasporian gallery. Africa House accepts proposals for submission on a rolling basis.
African Event Posters show posters of events at Africa House.
African Gourmet Dinners shows images of African gourmet dishes.
