Greetings!
We are excited to share with you the launch of a project close to our hearts – The Africa Online Museum – see the illustrated attachment below.
During the confinement of Covid, Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher took the time to look at their fifty year archive of work and think about how they could make it more accessible to students and lovers of African culture worldwide, both now and into the future.
The result of this was the creation of the Africa Online Museum – www.africaonlinemuseum.org - which they made in partnership with the University of Wurzberg, Germany and Afro Project e.V.
The Africa Online Museum is carefully curated collection of the best of their images and videos accompanied with essays, captions and music from the length and breadth of Africa. They have begun with 33 different cultural groups and will be adding more as the museum grows.
The University of Wurzberg has shared the Museum with African universities across the continent. We hope it will find a home in schools and universities worldwide and would love you to share it with anyone you felt would value this resource.
The Museum is now online, and we invite you to explore it and take a journey around Africa.