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Amanpour and Company Sep 16, 2020 COVID-19 is reordering our priorities and raising questions about how we can build better societies. In their new book “The Wake-Up Call,” top journalists at Bloomberg News and The Economist seek answers by examining … Continue reading →

FRANCE 24 English Published on Sep 17, 2020 Hurricane Sally uprooted trees, flooded streets and cut power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses on Wednesday as it brought what the US National Hurricane Center called “historic and catastrophic” … Continue reading →

BBC Apr 10, 2018 Subscribe and to OFFICIAL BBC YouTube https://bit.ly/2IXqEIn Stream original BBC programmes FIRST on BBC iPlayer https://bbc.in/2J18jYJ Programme website: http://bbc.in/2pqRjCx David Olusoga discusses Benin bronzes created from the 16th century in West Africa, and how these works … Continue reading →

Harvard University Press Dec 13, 2010 Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., describes The Image of the Black in Western Art, a project begun in the 1960s. Harvard University’s W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research and … Continue reading →

About the Books In the 1960s, as a response to segregation in the United States, the influential art patron Dominique de Menil began a research project and photo archive called The Image of the Black in Western Art. Now, fifty … Continue reading →

Ouidah, an indigenous African town in the modern Republic of Benin, was the principal pre-colonial commercial centre of its region, and the second most important town of the Dahomey kingdom. It served as a major outlet for the export of … Continue reading →

Library of Congress Library of Congress Chet Van Duzer’s analysis of four maps in the African and Middle Eastern Division at the Library of Congress included: the world map in a seventeenth-century manuscript of Ibn al-Wardi’s Kharidat al-‘Aja’ib wa Faridat … Continue reading →

Library of Congress Chet Van Duzer’s analysis of four maps in the African and Middle Eastern Division at the Library of Congress included: the world map in a seventeenth-century manuscript of Ibn al-Wardi’s Kharidat al-‘Aja’ib wa Faridat al-Ghara’ib (The Pearl … Continue reading →