by The African Counter | Jun 24, 2017 | Music, Music Instruments
Song arrangement is getting so complex and instrumentation so international that it is most of the time difficult to recognise how much Africa has influenced popular music through its rhythms, its styles, its instruments. These are 20 African Music Instruments that...
by The African Counter | Dec 12, 2016 | Arts, Design and Craft
What is African Rock Art? African Rock Art are African Rock painting and engravings believed to be humankind’s earliest artistic and cultural expressions. Nelson Mandela President, South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, politician, philanthropist and President of...
by The African Counter | Dec 12, 2016 | Architecture, Arts
Architectural Design The triangular majesty of Egyptian pyramids is the image that first emerges into modern minds when African architecture is mentioned although as someone suggested, it is often forgotten that Egypt is on the African continent. However, there is...
by The African Counter | Jul 12, 2016 | Artists and Artisans, Arts
There have been and there will always be a plethora of contributors to African Arts. Through their skills and craft, they add to the beauty, the depth and the overall richness of a continent that has been blossoming through those gifts, emancipating throughout...
by The African Counter | Dec 12, 2015 | Arts, Design and Craft
Design Illustrators and graphic designers abound in a land where hieroglyphs and graphical representations were the precursors to modern writing. This is illustrated (pardon the pun) by very ancient paintings and engravings such as those collected under the umbrella...
