An African Autumn
Exhibitions of African art and culture
African art and its historical and social context is front-stage in Belgium and Britain in the next few months, as a quartet of initiatives exposes many masterworks to the general public for the first time.
Leading the way is Belgium, like Britain one of the European powers whose acquisition of a 'place in the sun’ in Africa at the turn of the century was to have profound consequences for the pre-colonial societies encountered.
Antwerp's Ethnographical Museum has been hosting in exhibition of art and artefacts from Angola, but currently on show just outside Brussels is a spectacular exhibition of some 250 objects drawn from the area once the Belgian Congo and now the independent state of Zaire.
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