South African Firms Launch a Local Currency-Backed Stablecoin
A consortium of South African firms has launched ZAR Universal (ZARU), a blockchain-based stablecoin pegged to the local currency. Transparency ...
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Venice Biennale: South African pavilion scandal, Marian Goodman remembered, Paul Cezanne in Basel—podcast – The Art Newspaper
The South African culture minister, the right-wing populist Gayton McKenzie, has cancelled the project for South Africa’s pavilion at the ...
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MoMA explores how African studio portraits offered a new vision of freedom – The Art Newspaper
When young men and women stepped into studio backdrops to have their photograph taken in Bamako, Kinshasa and Accra in ...
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South African Reserve Bank Flags Crypto and Stablecoins as Structural Risk
The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) has added crypto assets and stablecoins to a new, monitored risk category, citing a ...
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Discovery Bank Becomes First Major South African Bank to Offer Crypto Trading
Discovery Bank has partnered with crypto exchange Luno to integrate crypto asset trading directly into the bank’s mobile application. Seamless ...
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Opening of Museum of Western African Art in Nigeria delayed after protests – The Art Newspaper
The official launch and preview weekend of the highly anticipated Museum of Western African Art (MoWAA) in Benin City, Nigeria, ...
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Flutterwave, Polygon Team Up on African Stablecoin Push
Enjoyed this article? Share it with your friends! Flutterwave, a Nigerian financial technology company, is working on a new payment ...
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Lagos symposium—spearheaded by the artist Yinka Shonibare—to dig deep into African archives – The Art Newspaper
African and Afro-diasporic archives will be celebrated and reinterpreted as part of a major project launching later this year in ...
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New videos of African cultural sites add contemporary context to Rockefeller Wing’s historical artefacts at the Met
The New York art world is abuzz with excitement about the reopening of the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing at the ...
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Adam Lindemann opens exhibition of 19th-century African sculpture and contemporary Black abstraction
In the lead-up to the reopening of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Michael C. Rockefeller Wing at the end of ...
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