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Lwandile Nkanyuza (born 30 June 1995), known professionally as ByLwansta, is a South African rapper, record producer, art director and graphic designer. [1]From very early in his career, graphic design has played a very significant role in Lwandile's music career as ByLwansta, and he often sees and treats ByLwansta as a client with a never ending brief.
Malawian visual artist Massa Lemu described Ogboh's work as embodying Afropolitanism, in which African cities were representative of a busy, globalized world and its multiple cultures centralized in one place. Lemu thought of Ogboh's soundscapes as "auditory landscapes" that recreate a sense of the Lagos environment.
Samuel Bazawule was born in Accra, Ghana, on 19 April 1982.He is the third of four children and attended Achimota School.While in school, he amassed awards for his visual art, but later developed an obsession with hip-hop music after hearing his older brother play the Public Enemy album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back.
First African-American man to receive an Oscar: James Baskett (Honorary Academy Award for his portrayal of "Uncle Remus" in Song of the South, 1946) [22] (See also: Sidney Poitier, 1964) First African-American composer to have an opera performed by a major U.S. company: William Grant Still (Troubled Island, New York City Opera) [23]
Robert Scott Duncanson, Landscape with Rainbow c. 1859, Hudson River School, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.. This list of African-American visual artists is a list that includes dates of birth and death of historically recognized African-American fine artists known for the creation of artworks that are primarily visual in nature, including traditional media such as painting ...
Olugebefola joined the Twentieth-Century Creators group in 1964; and was a founder of Weusi Artist Collective in 1965 and subsequently the Weusi Gallery in New York City. [2] These three organizations supported African American artists, made work for a Black audience, and their work often featured pan-African aesthetics, themes and symbols.
This is a list of notable Kenyan artists, includes artists of various genres, who are notable and are either born in Kenya, of Kenyan descent or who produce works that are primarily about Kenya. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Barry Hilton (born 1956), South African comedian and actor who was born in Harare; Kudzanai-Violet Hwami (born 1993), Zimbabwean painter who lives in London, England; Masimba Hwati, sculptor, performance artist, sound artist, and three-dimensional mixed media sculptor