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A magazine with the name West Africa, started by E. D. Morel, had been published between 1903 and 1906. [2] The title was revived on 3 February 1917 from offices in Fleet Street, London, with the commercial backing of Elder Dempster Shipping Line and the trading company John Holt. [3] It was to appear weekly, initially at a price of sixpence ...
Black Orpheus. (magazine) Black Orpheus was a Nigeria -based literary journal founded in 1957 by German expatriate editor and scholar Ulli Beier that has been described as "a powerful catalyst for artistic awakening throughout West Africa". [1] Its name derived from a 1948 essay by Jean-Paul Sartre, "Orphée Noir", published as a preface to ...
It is located in Dakar, Senegal. WARC is a center for academic exchange between American and West African scholars that encourages research on the region of West Africa. The idea for the overseas center came about in May 1992 and was implemented in the fall of 1993. Since its inception, WARC has grown both in terms of staff and influence as it ...
West Africa: Word, Symbol, Song. West Africa: Word, Symbol, Song was a major four-month exhibition at the British Library in London — the first of its kind in the UK to explore in detail the cultural history of the region, through literature, artefacts, art, music and performance — which ran from 16 October 2015 to 16 February 2016.
Media Foundation for West Africa. The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) is an international non-governmental organization based in Accra, Ghana, and was founded in 1997. [1] It campaigns against violations and attacks on freedom of the press in West Africa. [1] Kwame Karikari was the former chairman of the organization.
He worked with the Africa Magazine from 1974 to 1984 and worked for the West Africa (magazine) from 1982 to 1996. [7] [8] He was the Ghanaian Correspondent for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) between 1986 and 1996 and the Ghanaian Correspondent for the Agence France-Presse (AFP) from 1996 to 2006.
The West Africa Study Circle (WASC) is the "international specialist society for the study of stamps, postal stationery and postal history of West Africa." [1] The Circle publishes a regular journal, Cameo, and books and monographs. The principal areas covered by the society are the philately of:
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