“Excess of words in Yoruba” was the justification used by a member of a judging panel at Rio de Janeiro’s Carnaval to dock points from a samba school. The group Unidos de Padre Miguel had put together ...
Another Afro-Portuguese ivory has surfaced, following Ezio Bassani's catalogue raison of 1988. This one, an oliphant from Sierra Leone, was "rediscovered" in the British Museum's Department of ...