The United States Mint announced a series of coins commemorating American women who are pioneers. Maya Angelou is the first black woman to appear on a coin. (Read more...)

Basquiat is the author of "Untitled", a painting acquired by a Japanese billionaire for $110.5 million: the most paid for a work by an American artist. (Read more...)

Unknown to the general public until now, Mbougar Sarr has just written his name in gold letters in the pantheon of world literature by winning the Goncourt Prize 2021. (Read more...)

"I am self taught, schooled at 'the University of YouTube' but my father provided the platform." - T. Muriu (Read more...)

Kareem Waris emerged into international fame in July 2018 after he made a portrait of French President Emmanuel Macron in just two hours! President Macron, who was on an official visit to Nigeria, was stunned by his talent and praised the artist with a tweet on his Twitter page. (Read more...)

Thursday 7th of October 2021, the Swedish Academy announced the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature to be Tanzanian-born Abdulrazak Gurnah making him the first Black to win the prize since Toni Morrison in 1993. (Read more...)

Amobé revealed African creativity and diversity to the world through the cultural programs he offered, notably "Acoustic", "Africanités", or "400 millions de critiques" on TV5 Monde and France 24. (Read more...)

Ekow Nimako perceives himself as a "futurist" who blends Africanfuturism, Afrofuturism and Afrofantasy. (Read more...)

John Amanam rise to fame came from a place of tragedy, an accident that cost his brother a limb. (Read more...)

Felwine Sarr develops the foundations of a utopia necessary for the reinvention of Africa. According to him, the continent's only pressing challenge is to live up to its potential and not run to catch up with anyone. (Read more...)