The National Portrait Gallery in London has launched an appeal to save this rare early 18th century portrait of a Gambian, muslim intellectual named Ayuba Suleiman Diallo, for the nation. This will ensure that the history …

FACE TO FACE: The African Presence in Renaissance Europe
Walters Art Museum, Baltimore (USA) & Seattle Museum of Art, Seattle (USA)
Opens October 2012
” Face to Face: The African Presence in Renaissance Europe, an unprecedented exhibition, explores …

Take a look at the Ghanaian artist El Anatsui, installing his work, ‘Between Heaven and Earth’ in the African galleries of the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York:
“I think beauty …

Jacob Jordaens, Moses and his Ethiopian Wife, c.1650
Oil on Canvas, Rubenshuis, Antwerp
In early versions of the Old Testament, there is a passage which describes Moses introducing his Moorish or Ethiopian wife to his sister Miriam …