AFRO FESTIVAL 2010
		June 25-27th 2010

The Afro Festival is a cultural event organized annually at the Museum of African Art. Since 1997 it has continued to perpetuate an atmosphere of a true cosmopolitan festivity not only in our country but the wider region as well. The festival communicates the appreciation of cultural diversity and the presentation of cultural heritage through different programs and activities. This year the Afro festival opens with a panel talk that focuses on African music.

		“HAIRDRESSER AND BARBERSHOP SIGNS OF AFRICA” Exhibition and catalogue by: Nataša Njegovanović Ristić, art-historian and MAA senior curator
		December 30th, 2009 – August 31st, 2010

The “Hairdresser and Barbershop Signs of Africa” exhibition presents original boards from Cameroon, Senegal and the Central African Republic, alongside photographs documenting barbershop and hair-saloon signs in Togo, Benin, Ghana and Ivory Coast, dating from the 1970-ies to the present day, and stands as testimony of change characteristic of modern Africa and its popular art scene.