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Coster Balakasi was born in 1970 in Malawi and came to the Zimbabwean stone-carving tradition as an outsider — arriving from a neighboring country with its own sculptural traditions and finding in the

Rose Chakanyuka occupies a singular position in the history of Shona sculpture: she is among the very few women to have achieved sustained international recognition in a tradition that has been overwh

The Kwele are a small Bantu-speaking people of the Sangha River region, straddling the border between the Republic of Congo and southeastern Gabon. Inhabitants of the dense equatorial rainforest, the

The Bwa (also known as Bobo-Oulé) are a Gur-speaking people of central and western Burkina Faso and eastern Mali. They are renowned for producing some of the most dramatic and formally ambitious masks

The Nafana are a small Gur-speaking people inhabiting the borderland between northwestern Ghana and northeastern Côte d'Ivoire. Despite their relatively small population, they are renowned across the