Photographs taken by Gavin Ashworth during the summer of 1987 in several villages in Mali and Cote d'Ivoire. The images detail all phases of strip weaving, from the spinning of yarn to the assemblage ...
Students will listen to music from Ghana, Nigeria, Cuba, and Puerto Rico to learn how this polyrhythmic tradition followed Africans to the Caribbean as a result of the transatlantic slave trade.
Susan Nwankpa Gillespie, an architect in Southern California, wanted to create a larger home for her family. Bruce Damonte Nwankpa Gillespie designed brick patterns inspired by a West African dress ...