Dennis OsadebeKoyo Kouoh, one of the global art world’s most prominent figures, who had been slated to become the first African woman to curate the Venice Biennale, died on Saturday in…
Dennis OsadebeKenneth Walker, an Emmy Award-winning journalist whose reporting for the ABC News program “Nightline” helped bring the brutality of South Africa’s racist apartheid system to the attention of the American…
Dennis Osadebe“If you say the truth of Africa is in the eye of the beholders,” he said, “you have to ask, Why do so many beholders hold that truth?” Mr. Mudimbe…
Dennis OsadebeSam Nujoma, the starting president of an isolated Namibia, who led a Soviet-backed guerrilla military in an asymmetric combat towards the hugely great forces of white-ruled South Africa in a…
Dennis OsadebeValérie André used to be 10 years worn in 1932 when, armed with a congratulatory bouquet, she greeted the hero aviator Maryse Hilsz on the Strasbourg airfield in France. She…
Dennis OsadebeThis text is a part of Overpassed, a form of obituaries about important public whose deaths, starting in 1851, went unreported in The Occasions. In 1977, Karen Wynn Fonstad made…
Dennis OsadebeDada Masilo, a South African dancer and choreographer recognized for injecting African dance into daring, unconventional interpretations of classical ballets like “Swan Lake” and “Giselle,” died on Sunday in Johannesburg.…
