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[Bird Story Agency] Once primarily worn as wrappers and ceremonial dress, Akwete cloth is finding new life in contemporary clothing and university training. Weavers, educators and heritage specialists say expanding its market could preserve generations of knowledge while creating new livelihoods.

[This Day] Crusoe Osagie writes that the attack on the museum in Benin City and the propriety of an individual taking sole possession of globally significant artifacts puts the future of cultural restitution in jeopardy

[Nile Post] Kampala's creative community is set to converge for another edition of the DROOP Canvas Open Studio Session, an interactive celebration of art, culture, creativity and community.

[Daily Maverick] For most South Africans, the Madlanga Commission of Inquiry has felt like watching a single scandal unfold. For investigative journalist Caryn Dolley, it's the latest chapter in a story she has spent more than 15 years - and no shortage of personal risk - pursuing.

[The Conversation Africa] In Lagos in the 1910s and 1920s a new market of readers was emerging who wanted to express themselves in their own languages. Despite the dominance of colonial English print culture, entrepreneurs increasingly started using printing presses for mainstream Yoruba-language newspapers, books and pamphlets.