Murals, and public art in general, are a great way to broadcast messages to the community. Rather than erecting ugly billboards that are relentlessly “in our face,” broadcasting car accident and slip ...

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Modern Brazil is what it is today - the foods, the religious traditions, and, of course, the music - in large part because of its African roots. That's the message one of Rio de Janeiro's famous samba ...

Just to save others from having to look it up, the Bantu languages include Swahili and Zulu, which were the only two languages that I recognized in the list. Apparently, there are hundreds of mutually ...

One of Rio's most storied Samba schools will explore the "Pain and Passion" of the lives of the Bantu people in the city. Bantu people were the majority of Black people enslaved in Rio. Modern Brazil ...

Bantu South Africa before the Mfecane -- The Zulu kingdom -- The birth of the Swazi nation -- Soshangane and the empire of Gaza -- The Ngoni invasions of east-central Africa -- The invasion of the ...

What is Bantu about Bantu art? What are the essential qualities of the great sculptural traditions across the Bantu-speaking regions of central Africa that are now so well known? One must get beyond ...