African art

archaeological culture

modern and historical aesthetic, material, oral/audio and visual culture native to or originating from indigenous Africans or the African continent

national emblem of Zimbabwe

contemporary painting style in Tansania

thumb|Imigongo art on display at the International Geography Festival in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, France Imigongo () is an art form popular in Rwanda traditionally made by women using cow dung. Often in the colors black, white and red, popular themes include spiral and geometric designs that are painted on walls, pottery, and canvas.

dogon mask used by members of the Awa Society

species of plant

2007 film by Katy Lane Ndiaye

ethnic group in South Sudan

thumb|Power Figure: Male (Nkisi). Created circa 1800-1950, DRC, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Michael C. Rockefeller Memorial Collection, Bequest of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1979 ' or ' (plural varies: , , , or ) are spirits or an object that a spirit inhabits. It is frequently applied to a variety of objects used throughout the Congo Basin in Central Africa, especially in the Territory of Cabinda that are believed to contain spiritual powers or spirits. The term and its concept have passed with the Atlantic slave trade to the Americas.

thumb|right|300px|Comparison of the four major styles of the Chiwara mask of the Bambara people of Mali. Clockwise from top left: abstract, Bougouni/southern region, vertical/Segu/northern region, and horizontal/Bamako/Northern region thumb|right|300px|Two Chiwara at the Art Institute of Chicago. Female (left) and male Vertical styles.

painting series by Pablo Picasso

Genre of African art

wax-resist (batik) printed textile of Africa

400px|thumb|Lusona ideograph illustrating the story of the beginning of the world Sona () drawing is an ideographic tradition known across eastern Angola, northwestern Zambia and adjacent areas of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and is mainly practiced by the Chokwe and Luchazi peoples. These ideographs function as mnemonic devices to help remember proverbs, fables, games, riddles and animals, and to transmit knowledge.

Ethnographic museum in Lisbon, Portugal

thumb|right|220px|Three ''akua'ba''. These are from the Fante people|Fante people.

art of Ethiopian culture

Ghanaian weight made of brass used by the Akans

thumb|Traditional Tema pattern with inversion and rotation of the model base Litema, spelled Ditema in South African Sesotho orthography (; Singular: Tema, Sesotho for "text" or "ploughed land") is a form of Sotho mural art composed of decorative and symbolic geometric patterns, commonly associated with Sotho tradition today practised in Lesotho and neighbouring areas of South Africa. Basotho women generate litema on the outer walls and inside of homesteads by means of engraving, painting, relief mouldings and/or mosaic. Typically the geometric patterns are combed or scratched into the wet top

thumb|Tchitcheri sakab of the Moba people A tchitcherik or tchitcherik sakwa (plural: tchitcheri sakab) is a statue of the ancestors of the Moba of northern Togo and Ghana.

art made by Africans or their descendants in the post-colonial era

thumbnail|Lukasa memory board, from the collection of the Brooklyn Museum thumbnail|Beadwork Headdress for Mbudye Official, from the collection of the Brooklyn Museum Lukasa, "the long hand" (or claw), is a memory device that was created, manipulated and protected by the Bambudye, a once powerful secret society of the Luba. Lukasa are examples of Luba art.

Report on cultural relations between France and Africa south of the Sahara

common materials used for clothing in West Africa

visual and material culture of the Luba people

thumb|A Makonde elephant shetani Shetani (the word is both singular and plural in English, the plural in Swahili is mashetani) are spirits of East African mythology and popular belief. Mostly malevolent, and found in many different forms and different types with different powers, shetani are a popular subject of carved artwork, especially by the Makonde people of Tanzania, Mozambique, and Kenya. Physically, shetani of various types appear as distorted human and animal figures.

mother and child sculptures

African heritage in Western collections

african tribal art

carved stone figurine

A lipico or lipiko (plural: mapico or mapiko) is a wooden East African mask for ceremonial dances of the Makonde people in Mozambique and Tanzania. thumb|Lipico mask from Mozambique

fabrics from the fronds of the raffia palm leaves