We are pleased to dedicate this webpage to Miss Elma Lewis, an extraordinary woman, teacher and the founder of The National Center of Afro-American Artists, 300 Walnut Avenue, Roxbury, Massachusetts (USA).

On this page you will find images of blacks in paintings, drawings, prints, & sculptures. They are represented in many styles - ethnic, primitive, classical, academic, expressive, abstract - by both black and non-black artists. They begin with pre-history rock art and continue in ancient art, 16th century European art to the arts of today world-wide.  

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Olduvai Gorge, in Tanzania, is where Louis and Mary Leakey discovered numerous types of the fossil remains of our human ancestors traced back more than 1.6 million years. Also found were fossis of vanished forms of elephants and other wildlife that shared the ancient Serengeti ecosystem with the precursors of 'Homo sapiens.'

Bowman Algeria rock painting, © Bradshaw Foundation


Ngwaginki (Kitaturu)
Singida Region / Iramba District / Kisiriri Division

"The majority of the Tanzanian rock paintings are found in Kondoa and the contiguous Lake Eyasi basin. Those at Kondoa are the most easily accessible and perhaps the most dramatic because they are frequently painted on impressive rock faces, situated on steep rocky slopes overlooking valleys below. These paintings were also the first to be reported, as long ago as 1908. Surprisingly they were given little attention, being described and recorded only in brief publications by various scholars until Mary Leakey published her beautifully illustrated book describing the art of Kondoa-Irangi. The renewed research efforts...extend this record, and illustrate how rich this heritage really is; in five field seasons, Dr. Fidelis Masao and his colleagues recorded 140 new sites in Singida and 35 in the Lake Eyasi basin..." from: Forward by Dr. Meave Leakey to The Prehistoric Rock Art of Singida & Lake Eyasi Basin, North Central Tanzania, 2003

Rock Art of Tanzania
Singida & Eyasi Basin Rock Art

Whether or not Ancient Egyptians were people of Black African ancestry is a debatable subject; they were certainly African and as such are included here...

Africa was a highly developed continent for its time prior to the onslaught of the European invasion and Trans-Atlantic Slave trade. Africans worked at making tools, art, music, leatherworks, and iron; some of them specialized in running businesses that sold and exchanged salt, books, jewels, clothing, gold, cattle, medicines, and cotton.

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