* African American art

In June 1861, Monet joined the First Regiment of African Light Cavalry in Algeria for a seven-year commitment, but, two years later, after he had contracted typhoid fever, his aunt intervened to get him out of the army if he agreed to complete an art course at an art school.

The film examines traditional African art such as sculptures and masks, and its decline with coming of Western colonialism.

Alston was introduced to African art by the poet Alain Locke.

Woman with Flowers ( 1949 ) has been described as a tribute to Modigliani and African art makes another strong appearance in Ceremonial ( 1950 ).

When creating the murals Alston was inspired by the work of Aaron Douglas, who a year earlier had created the public art piece Aspects of Negro Life for the New York Public Library, and researched traditional African culture, including traditional African medicine.

Due to economic downturn Golden State was forced to sell their entire art collection to ward off its mounting debts and as of spring 2011 the National Museum of African American History and Culture had offered $ 750, 000 to purchase the artworks which led to a controversy regarding the importance of the artworks which have been estimated to be worth at least $ 5 million.

" Romare Bearden described Alston as "... one of the most versatile artists whose enormous skill led him to a diversity of styles ..." Bearden also describes the professionalism and impact that Alston had on Harlem and the African American community: "' was a consummate artist and a voice in the development of African American art who never doubted the excellence of all people's sensitivity and creative ability.

A force for change: African American art and the Julius Rosenwald Fund.

The Walter O. Evans collection of African American art.

The Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection of African American art.

Cyberneticist Ron Eglash has suggested that fractal geometry and mathematics are prevalent in African art, games, divination, trade, and architecture.

Giraffes were depicted in art throughout the African continent, including that of the Kiffians, Egyptians and Meroë Nubians.

African art, Islamic art, Indian art, Chinese art, and Japanese art each had significant influence on Western art, and, eventually, vice-versa.

African art, Islamic art, Indian art, Chinese art, Korean Art, and Japanese art each had significant influence on Western art, and, vice-versa.

African slavery had existed long before Europeans discovered it as an exploitable means of creating an inexpensive labour force for the colonies.

After the fall of the major West African empires, various kingdoms existed in what is now Guinea.

It is documented that brooms existed as spiritual symbols in regions where African Americans originated.

Others were similarly ousted, and the leadership structure became influenced less by Communism, more by a moderate ideology similar to that espoused by the liberal reformist civil rights organizations that existed for African Americans.

The three-tier race structure, which existed well into the 1940s and in some societies beyond, upheld the belief of European racial superiority, although most West Indians are of African descent.

The South African Customs Union came into existence in 1906, but various problems existed with the arrangements particularly because the Transvaal was insistent on dominating the Union.

A triangular trade existed with Danish manufactures buying African slaves which in turn were traded for West Indian sugar meant for Denmark.

African pygmies were put forth as an example of a race that had previously existed over larger stretches of territory, but come to be scarce and semi-mythical with the passage of time and prominence of other tribes and races.

African " Afrobeat " big bands have existed from 1970 to the present when Fela Kuti of Nigeria, fused big band jazz with Yoruba tribal rhythms, highlife, and American James Brown funk music.

The land originally comprised most of the independent Boer South African Republic, which had existed since 1856, despite two previous failed attempts by the British to establish supremacy.

The term apartheid, from Afrikaans for " apartness ," was the official name of the South African system of racial segregation which existed after 1948.

In an era when few opportunities existed for African American performers on national television, Sullivan was a champion of black talent.

The most important characteristics of the blues is its use of the blue scale, with a flatted or indeterminate third, as well as the typically lamenting lyrics ; though both of these elements had existed in African American folk music prior to the 20th century, the codified form of modern blues ( such as with the AAB structure ) did not exist until the early 20th century.

Although Delta blues certainly existed in some form or another at the turn of the 20th century, it was first recorded in the late 1920s, when record companies realized the potential African American market in Race records.

In the context of the United States of America, bicultural distinctions have traditionally existed between America and Mexico, and between the White and the African American population of the United States.

It appeared in Buenos Aires and its surroundings during the second half of the nineteenth century from the great contribution of the various waves of immigration, especially Italians, and words from American Indian, African and gaucho origin which had already existed in Argentina.

The stories of the detainees begins with a series of successful South African raids that made the SWAPO leadership believe spies existed in the movement.

The light to dark hierarchy within the African American race is one that has existed since the time of slavery, but its problems and consequences are still very evident and lead to various stereotypes.

A few dozen African slaves were forcibly brought as chattel by Europeans to New France, Acadia and the later British North America ( see chattel slavery ) during the 17th century, but large-scale plantation slavery of the sort that existed in most European colonies in the Americas, from New York to Brazil, never existed in colonial Canada or Newfoundland because the economies were not based on plantation agriculture.

Corvée has existed in modern and ancient Egypt, ancient Rome, China and Japan, France in the 17th and 18th centuries, Incan civilization, Haiti under Henri Christophe and under American occupation of Haiti ( 1915 – 1934 ), and Portugal's African colonies until the mid-1960s.

Kante created N ' Ko in response to what he felt were beliefs that Africans were a cultureless people, since prior to this time no indigenous African writing system for his language existed.

However, the slave and gold trade with Southern Saharan African Nations had existed for centuries prior to al-Mansur's alleged ' conquest '.

Another suggests those who immigrated to Bioko 3, 000 years ago descended from enslaved members from a number of ethnic groups that existed up and down the West-Central African region during that time.

The eastern branch of the East African Rift, contains much smaller lakes, many of them brackish and without outlet, the only one comparable to those of the western trough being Lake Turkana or Basso Norok.

This alphabet has influenced development of orthographies of many African languages ( serving " as the basis for the transcription " of about 60, by one count ), but not all, and discussions of harmonization of systems of transcription that led to, among other things, adoption of the African reference alphabet.

The cuisine of the American South has been influenced by the many diverse inhabitants of the region, including Americans of European descent, Native Americans and African Americans.

Afrobeat is now one of the most recognizable music genres in the world and has influenced as many Western musicians as it has African ones with its exuberant style and polyrhythms.

His message can be described as confrontational and controversial, which can be related to the political climate of most of the African countries in the 1960s, many of which were dealing with political injustice and military corruption while recovering from the transition from colonial governments to self-determination.

As the genre spread throughout the African continent many bands took up the style.

From a geostructural perspective the Azores is located above an active triple junction between three of the world's large tectonic plates ( the North American Plate, the Eurasian Plate and the African Plate ), a condition that has translated into the existence of many faults and fractures in this region of the Atlantic.

Though initially a source of pride, many blacks feared the use of African as an identity would be a hindrance to their fight for full citizenship in the US.

Wills not only learned traditional music from his family, he learned some Negro songs directly from African Americans in the cotton fields near Lakeview, Texas and said that he did not play with many white children other than his siblings, until he was seven or eight years old.

Slavery was less common on the Cayman Islands than in many other parts of the Caribbean, resulting in a more even division of African and European ancestry.

African currency is still notable for its variety, and in many places various forms of barter still apply.

It is globally popular and an essential flavouring in many cuisines, particularly South Asian, Northern African and Latin American cuisines.

Spanish also transported African slaves and forcedly migrated many indigenous tribes throughout Colombia.

The biggest of the quilombos, the Quilombo dos Palmares, consisted of many villages mostly of African slaves though they also consisted of other ethnicities and lasted for more than a century, resisting, often outnumbered, many colonial attacks.

Cairo, like many other mega-cities, suffers from high levels of pollution and traffic, but its metro – one of only two metros on the African continent ( the other one being the Algiers Metro ) – also ranks among the fifteen busiest in the world, with over 1, 000 million annual passenger rides.

His classification of the Bantu languages was for many years the dominant view of the interrelations among the African languages.

African wild dogs have the largest packs, which can number as many as 90 animals.

In Northeastern Brazil and among the diaspora of its population in other Brazilian regions, cuzcuz ( locally, in Rio de Janeiro, in São Paulo ), a steamed cake of couscous and corn flour ( a mixture called fubá, pronounced, said to be of African origin from the slave trade ), is a popular meal, served in many forms: With sugar and milk, with varied meats, with cheese and eggs, and so on.

Alston entered the pre-architectural program only to lose interest upon seeing the lack of success many African American architects had in the field.

In a review of social stratification systems in Africa, Richter reports that the term caste has been used by French and American scholars to many groups of West African artisans.

African AIDS cases, though, have increased in the last three decades as HIV's prevalence has increased but as malnutrition percentages and poor sanitation have declined in many African regions.