African pottery has always been an integral part of the continent's cultural heritage, serving both functional and artistic ...

Archaeologist Scott MacEachern remembers with fondness the days when nobody used to know where he worked. For the last 30 years he has been a regular visitor to an area of west-central Africa known as ...

A show focused on Ladi Kwali and other Black female potters is a revelation.

An exhibition on traditional pottery is bringing to light African history before written records came into being. Pots and Identities, now showing at the Nairobi National Museum, portrays an array of ...

African patterns are characterized by geometric shapes, lines, and symbols that carry cultural significance. Each pattern ...

A local woman shows pot utensils made by Oriang Women Group in Homa Bay county, Nyanza Province, Kenya, Feb. 4, 2018. The kiln was constructed for Oriang Women Group by the German government through ...

Includes discussion of pottery making of the Bwa, Mossi, Yoruba, Gwari, and Shai, among others, in West Africa. Covers preparation of clays, building pots, decorating and firing. Based on the author's ...

A team of scientists has found the first evidence for ancient honey hunting, locked inside pottery fragments from prehistoric West Africa, dating back some 3,500 years ago. A team of scientists, led ...