African grass basket weaving is an age-old craft that showcases the continent's rich cultural heritage. The intricate art involves weaving grass into beautiful, functional pieces. Not only does the ...

Looping strips of palmetto fronds through coiled sweetgrass is slow poison. Squinting in concentration ruins the eyes, forcing a nail bone through the grass wrecks the hands and bending over the ...

Patterns in African basket weaving are often geometric and symbolic. These patterns have been adopted by modern artists who ...

At Charleston International Airport, travelers encounter two hand-woven baskets on display. One, made by Rwandan weavers, features a circle of figures holding hands. The other, made by Lowcountry ...

Sokoto — Basket weaving is a traditional art in Sokoto which is passed from one generation to the next. People in Shuni, Dange-Shuni local government area of Sokoto are renowned for basket making. For ...

An advertisement that ran in Charleston newspapers announced the sale of a valuable agricultural commodity: Cotton and Rice Negroes. The auction was held at 11 a.m. at Ryan's Mart on Chalmers Street.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – A new documentary by Bloomberg Philanthropies highlights the history of sweetgrass basket weaving in the Lowcountry and the way it connects weavers to their African roots.

Twenty two kilometers south of Fort Portal town in Western Uganda, lies Rubona Town Council. Here women have decided to turn basket weaving into a money minting activity. Not like the olden days when ...

Many of us became familiar with Gullah culture through director Julie Dash’s seminal 1991 film, Daughters of the Dust. The first feature film by a Black woman to get general theatrical release, ...

ETSHA, Botswana, April 25 (UNHCR) - Tourists visiting Botswana invariably buy some of the colourful baskets on offer in crafts shops to take home as souvenirs. Little do they know that these baskets ...