Art & Culture – Page 2 – Sisi Afrika Magazine

Ghana’s looted Asante gold comes home (for now) – Asante ruler’s advisor tells us about the deal

Why is it a six year loan and not an outright return?

by The Conversation February 11, 2024February 6, 2024

Grammy Awards: Africa finally has its own category – but at what cost?

The Grammys claims to recognise excellence. But it also celebrates US cultural imperialism and commercial success – a track record evident in its history.

by The Conversation February 6, 2024February 6, 2024

Art & Culture

The Nakuru Kitabu Fest — January 28th 2024, Nakuru Players Theatre

The Nakuru Kitabu Fest is a half- day festival that runs every month at the Nakuru Players Theatre. The event starts at 2:00pm and ends at 5:30pm in the evening.

by Sisi Afrika Magazine - January 26, 2024January 26, 2024

Art & Culture

Julie Mehretu’s ‘’Walkers with the Dawn and Morning’ sold for US$10.38 million: A new record for an African-born artist

Julie Mehretu's recent sale of a painting at auction is the highest ever made by an African artist, surpassing her own record set just a month earlier. This achievement underscores a burgeoning global interest in contemporary African art.

by bird - African Stories Agency November 20, 2023November 20, 2023

African Cultural Knowledge

Blood, Thicker Than Water?

We are more connected to people by the experiences we have shared with them than by the blood we share with others.

by Olubunmi Familoni November 13, 2023November 12, 2023

African Cultural Knowledge

Death and mourning in Ghana: how gender shapes the rituals of the Akan people

Mourning rituals are another area of life that’s shaped by gender in Ghana – as in many other cultures of the world.

by The Conversation September 19, 2023September 18, 2023

LONGREADS Music & Film

Kaskie Vibaya and the Semiotics of Gengetone

“Kaskie vibaya huko kwenu!” A retort. Witty. Acidic. It stings. Go cry at your home. Go be in your feelings at your home. Go be in your emotions at your momma’s house. Go feel bad somewhere else. If you are not familiar with the phrase, you might be the only Kenyan who isn’t.

by Eric Rugara September 8, 2023September 6, 2023

Book Reviews & Literary Criticism

Winnie and Mandela biography: a masterful tale of South Africa’s troubled, iconic power couple

Four days from death in December 2013, Nelson is in an advanced state of dementia and refuses to eat. Graça Machel, his third wife, invites his estranged second wife, Winnie, to be with him, noting that she was “Nelson’s great love”, and it’s Winnie who feeds him.

by The Conversation September 4, 2023September 4, 2023

African Cultural Knowledge

“Nyasaye” – God for the Luo People

The Luo did not have a conception of a single supreme being, and that conceptions of God, were in essence, an acknowledgment of the existence spirits with various capacities.

by Richard Oduor Oduku August 27, 2023August 24, 2023

African Cultural Knowledge

Nyadhi” – A Luo Philosophy of Self-love, Self-virtue, Achievement and Honour

When we approach nyadhi philosophically, we find that it relates more to self-love and self-virtue. It is akin to what Aristotle called Philautia (in Nicomachean Ethics and Eudemian Ethics) – “to love yourself” or “regard for one’s own happiness or advantage”. Philautia, understood as self-love, can be positive or negative/ healthy or unhealthy.

by Richard Oduor Oduku August 24, 2023August 24, 2023