Ndebele Tribe of South Africa Inspires Harlem Development. This article is from the archive of The New York Sun before the launch of its new website in 2022. The Sun has neither altered nor updated ...

Self-taught South African artist Esther Mahlangu’s powerful, evocative works keep the heritage of her Ndebele tribe alive.

Now 88, the South African visual artist is best known for her colourful large-scale murals in the traditional patterns and colours of the Ndebele people of South Africa - once famously displayed ...

But in one tribal stronghold of South Africa, it is accepted by the Ndebele people as the final step of a custom that ushers virgin girls from the innocence of childhood into a new life as wives ...

Ndebele artist Esther ... Dec. 29 (BNA): A chicken feather in lieu of a paintbrush - that's how 85-year-old South African artist Esther Mahlangu gets the black lines in her striking geometric ...

Esther Mahlangu’s retrospective of her world famous art was first shown in Cape Town and has now opened in Johannesburg. The 89-year-old South African visual artist is best known for her ...

Esther Mahlangu’s retrospective of her world famous art was first shown in Cape Town and has now opened in Johannesburg. The 89-year-old South African visual artist is best known for her ...

Esther Mahlangu is having a retrospective< of her world famous art in Cape Town. Now 88, the South African visual artist is best known for her colourful large-scale murals in the traditional ...