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For more than 10 years, africanah.org has covered contemporary African, African-American and Caribbean art in many ways. There appeared to be much interest in this. Africanah reached a large audience and many international authors contributed articles and interviews.
Financially and in terms of manpower, it was a challenge from the beginning to publish a new edition every month and to present current events on a daily basis.
As annoying and regrettable as we find this decision, we have decided to keep the website on the air and the archive with over 3,000 items accessible, but to discontinue the other activities.

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The Harlem Renaissance was a revival of black culture in a black district of New York. Yet there was a white critic, writer and photographer who had a great influence on the effectuation of that wave of creativity and pride. That was Carl van Vechten. He was appreciated and hated. He brought black writers into contact with white lenders and publishers so that their books could be published. He himself wrote a novel, Nigger Heaven, which for his title and his insight in the decadent nightlife of Harlem was filleted by many Harlemites.

In this article Rob Perrée gives a portrait of this controversial dandy.

Portrait of Van Vechten by Florine Stettheimer (1922)

First published: Nov 1 2018. Because of the Harlem Renaissance exhibtion in The Met in New York we publish this essay again.

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