Creating in Africa | Africa Blooming https://www.africablooming.com/en/category/creating-in-africa/ Celebrating African Creativity Tue, 04 Jun 2024 13:21:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.africablooming.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-AB-africablooming-32x32.png Creating in Africa | Africa Blooming https://www.africablooming.com/en/category/creating-in-africa/ 32 32 198374553 Art | Taweydo Gallery: an oasis of creativity in the heart of Niamey https://www.africablooming.com/en/art-taweydo-gallery-an-oasis-of-creativity-in-the-heart-of-niamey/ Tue, 04 Jun 2024 12:28:12 +0000 https://www.africablooming.com/art-taweydo-gallery-an-oasis-of-creativity-in-the-heart-of-niamey/ Niamey-based art gallery Taweydo presents the exhibition “Le Niger en couleur II”. Figuration, graphic forms, surrealism and abstraction: Nigerien artists are in the spotlight.

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]]> 5883 ‘Along the shore’ | New craft series on Africa Blooming shop https://www.africablooming.com/en/new-african-crafts-on-africa-blooming-shop/ Thu, 01 Sep 2022 05:52:41 +0000 https://www.africablooming.com/?p=5102 Discover our new series of crafts and everyday items added to the Africa Blooming collection: handicrafts from Togo, vintage tableware from Benin, basketry from Ghana... a getaway along the shore.

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]]> 5102 Exploring Togolese contemporary art | 3 exhibitions at the Palais de Lomé https://www.africablooming.com/en/discovering-togolese-artists-exhibitions-at-the-palais-de-lome/ Sun, 14 Aug 2022 13:23:17 +0000 https://www.africablooming.com/?p=4747 After an inaugural exhibition focusing on kings, 3 exhibitions opened this year at the Palais de Lomé, celebrating the city, its youth and its creative talents.

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]]> 4747 Art | Mathka Paris | Exhibition | Nomadic abstraction https://www.africablooming.com/en/mathka-paris-exhibition-nomadic-abstraction/ Thu, 10 Feb 2022 13:26:25 +0000 https://www.africablooming.com/?p=4271 The Franco-Nigerien artist Mathka Paris exhibits at the Grand Hôtel du Niger, in Niamey. An opportunity to discover the contemporary work of this heiress of the Fulani Wodaabe culture.

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]]> 4271 Movie | Zinder | Another Look at the Sahel https://www.africablooming.com/en/movie-zinder-another-look-at-the-sahel/ Sat, 21 Aug 2021 15:19:36 +0000 https://www.africablooming.com/movie-zinder-another-look-at-the-sahel/ In June 2021, the young Nigerien director Aïcha Macky was screening her film Zinder for the first time in Niamey, a documentary that takes us on a journey to meet the gangs of the Sahelian city and a youth who are rarely given a voice.

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]]> 3453 Dance | Lowela | La Mer Noire on an African tour https://www.africablooming.com/en/dance-lowela-la-mer-noire-on-an-african-tour/ Wed, 09 Jun 2021 19:39:00 +0000 https://www.africablooming.com/dance-lowela-la-mer-noire-on-an-african-tour/ A hip hop wave is taking over the continent. The Senegalese dance company La Mer Noire is now on an African tour.

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]]> 3179 Shopping local in Niamey | 4 stores run by creative women https://www.africablooming.com/en/shopping-local-in-niamey-4-stores-run-by-creative-women/ Tue, 30 Mar 2021 10:55:29 +0000 https://www.africablooming.com/shopping-local-in-niamey-4-stores-run-by-female-leaders/ Fashion, interior design or delicatessen, in the Nigerien capital creativity is flourishing and several original stores have been created, highlighting local and continental know-how.
From the Koira Kano district to the old small market via Yantala, here are four stores initiated by creative and inspiring women to consume locally in Niamey!

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]]> 3126 Surf Ghana | Kick, push and skate in Accra https://www.africablooming.com/en/surf-ghana-kick-push-and-skate-in-accra/ Mon, 11 Jan 2021 16:01:13 +0000 https://www.africablooming.com/surf-ghana-kick-push-and-skate-in-accra/ In the heart of Accra, skaters have their lair. In 2016, Surf Ghana is born, a surf, skateboard and art collective, offering a space for meeting and sharing around the culture of skateboarding to the young people of the Ghanaian capital. Surf Ghana invites both young and adults to learn how to skate, gives visibility […]

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