Blogs
NMAfA Docents
Welcome docents! Please refer to this site to find materials and recordings from our in-service sessions as well as resources to use for your tours. The front page features a blog function through which docents may write about their travels, their research, or other topics related to African art & culture.
Radio Africa
The sounds that make up the diverse music of Africa are now yours to explore. Radio Africa streams, at no charge, complete tracks from the collections of Smithsonian Folkways.
From the rhythms of Benin to the wedding music of Ethiopia to the traditional Zulu music of South Africa to the parade music of Senegal, you’ll never know what you’ll hear next!
Click the Recording Info button on the radio for more information about the music or to purchase a track from Smithsonian Folkways.
Podcasts
Diane Macklin
Reading the childrens story Anansi the Spider – a tale from the Ashanti. (3:42)
Johnnetta Betsch Cole
Director, National Museum of African Art
Reading the childrens story “The Leopard’s Drum,” (7:15)
El Anatsui
Interviewed by Jessica Martinez (12:16 total for 3 separate podcasts)
Thomas K. Seligman
Director, Cantor Arts Center (12:33)
Stanford University
António Ole
Interviewed by Curator Christine Mullen Kreamer (5:25)
Sharon F. Patton
Former Director, National Museum of African Art (24:53)
Courtesy Artworks Now, Maryland Public Television
Georgia Papageorge
Introduced by Curator Christine Mullen Kreamer (7:26)
Interviewed by Allyson Purpura
Sue Williamson
Recorded 2004 at the Dakar Biennale of Contemporary African Art, Dakar, Senegal (8:22)
Interviewed by Kinsey Katchka