Fida Finds: The Amazing Drawings of Kelvin Okafor
Londoner Kelvin Okafor is an artist with a growing reputation for drawings so good they look like photographs.
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Fida Finds – El Anatsui's Amazing Art
Rounding out the year with the amazing art of El Anatsui
Designing Their Own Future
Young inventors are showing up all over Africa!
Fida Finds – Cello!
Fida Finds are random good things on the Web which we come across and post on Fridays.
Ama Ata Aidoo
This year people around the world are celebrating Ama Ata Aidoo’s seventh decade as a writer and we want to be amongst the first to say on March 23rd, Happy Birthday!
February Poem
“Meant to write for Africa” – Gladys Casely-Hayford of Sierra-Leone and Ghana was a brilliant woman with many artistic talents. Her poems are part of the legacy of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920’s and ’30’s.
Fida Finds: A Composer named Kofi
Fida means “Friday”. Since the name Kofi means “Friday-born boy”, we’ve decided to inaugurate the category with a find about Kofi Vordzorgbe, a young Ghanaian music prodigy.
Chinua Achebe for Young Readers
Today is Chinua Achebe’s birthday, and in honor of Africa’s beloved and best known literary Elder, we embarked on a web search for his children’s books.
Tell the Children about Wangari Maathai
Dr. Wangari Muta Maathai, founder of the Green Belt Movement and one of the heroines of the world, passed away on Sunday September 25 in Nairobi, Kenya at the age of 71.
