Jean Depara: chronicler of Kinshasa nightlife
Jean Depara_self-portrait taken in 1975 . . . Lemvo Jean Abou Bakar Depara (born 1928, Angola – died 1997, Kinshasa, DRC) . Jean Depara became a photographer almost by accident. Wishing to document...
View Article“Tôt ou tard le monde changera / Sooner or later the world will change”:...
Monsengo Shula_Untitled, 2015 Painter Jean-Bosco Monsengo (born 1959), and known as Shula in the city of Kinshasa, Congo, learned his craft under the tutelage of Moke, a prominent artist of the...
View ArticleBlack History Month: Vintage Black Paper Dolls
“Aunt Dinah, the Colored Cook, comes to join the Paper Doll Family”_McCall’s Magazine, April 1911_Aunt Dinah is presented in a realistic, straightforward manner, as all the dolls in this McCall’s...
View ArticleAlberto Henschel: 19th-century Brazilian photographer
Alberto Henschel_from his series Tipos negros or Black Types_Recife, Pernambuco_around 1869 Alberto Henschel (1827-1882) was a German-born Brazilian photographer from Berlin. An energetic, enterprising...
View ArticlePoesía cubana del siglo XX: una muestra de Zócalo Poets: junio de 2016 /...
“The battle of ideas continues…” / “La batalla de ideas continua…” Foto © Peter W. Davies_Cuba 2011
View ArticleAfroFest 2016 à Toronto…
AfroFest 2016 à Toronto –– Tu t’es joint à nous? Parce que nous nous sommes bien amusés! Tout s’est déroulé au samedi et dimanche, le 9 et 10 de juillet – toute la journée au Parc Woodbine. La musique...
View ArticleCaribana is 49! An’ de lime wuz good!
Toronto Caribbean Carnival (“Caribana”): A reveller awaits the masquerade judge’s decision after her mas’-crew’s display at the CNE on Lakeshore Boulevard in Toronto: July 30th, 2016. Photo by Nakita...
View ArticlePalaver International Literary Festival in Wasaga Beach, Ontario!
Founded by writer and journalist Michael S. L. Jarrett – and now in its second year – Palaver International Literary Festival brings Caribbean literature, music and good food to Wasaga Beach, Ontario....
View ArticleHabari Africa Festival in Toronto!
Portrait of Djely Tapa by photographer Elaine After a baking-hot day on Friday, August 12th – when the temperature reached 36 degrees celsius here in Toronto – the logical place to cool down at sunset...
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