Puntland profile
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Gabon profile
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Ceuta, Melilla profile
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Burundi profile
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Rwanda country profile
Provides an overview of Rwanda, including key events and facts about this East African country that is still recovering from the genocide of 1994.
Uganda profile
Provides overview, key facts and events, timelines and leader profiles along with current news about Uganda.
Madagascar profile
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The Gambia profile
Provides overview, key facts and events, timelines and leader profiles along with current news about The Gambia.
Artists stoke creative fires behind industrial warehouse doors
Noel Hodnett’s paintings are in “every national collection” in his native South Africa, including the South African National Gallery. After he emigrated to Vancouver in 1997, he was represented by …
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Street artists sue AEG in dispute over lost artwork in penthouse
Anschutz Entertainment Group, which sent treasures from King Tut’s tomb around the world without apparent mishap, operates the Grammy Museum and runs the current touring exhibition, “America I Am: The …
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Klingbiel creates ‘language for an era that lacks clarity’
Klingbiel’s abstract paintings and large-scale woodblocks are characterized by vivid gestural strokes that are densely layered. Much of his aesthetic is rooted in the New York School (Willem de Kooning …
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African-American exhibit to open in January at the Lauren Rogers Museum of Art
Whether or not they call it home, African-American artists of the past century have repeatedly explored their ties to the South. This region may appear in their art as a …
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African American Collection on Display at JCSM, Auburn University
The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University presents the exhibition, Promises of Freedom: Selections from the Arthur Primas Collection, on display in the Bill L. Harbert …
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Swaziland profile
An overview
Film historian heads to MOCAD with new edition of ‘Lost Landscapes of Detroit’
When San Francisco film collector and historian Richard Prelinger brought his “Lost Landscapes of Detroit” program to the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit last year, he was surprised that more …
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