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<span class="entry-title-primary">Art, Media and Women in Contemporary African Art</span> <span class="entry-subtitle">A Conversation with Three South African Female Artists</span>

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Art, Media and Women in Contemporary African Art A Conversation with Three South African Female Artists

21st December 2017 2 Comments 3897 views

Despite a growth in the young generation of ‘Afro-futurist’ and ‘Afro-positivists’ in Africa, contemporary African art as well as its female creatives mostly remain in the shadows. Laure Perrier interviewed three influential South African female artists to find out more about their art, the media they use and the subject they choose to discuss in their work.

<span class="entry-title-primary">Women’s Day Celebration</span> <span class="entry-subtitle">A Day of Self-Empowerment in Vrygrond</span>

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Women’s Day Celebration A Day of Self-Empowerment in Vrygrond

18th August 2016 0 Comments 3137 views

‘You strike a woman; you strike a rock’. These words were sung in Pretoria and echoed nationwide on 9 August, 1956. Over 20,000 women filled the streets of the city, united by their rejection of the new pass laws proposed by the apartheid government. This day is celebrated as National Women’s Day.