The ArtAfrica Project.

The website artafrica.gulbenkian.pt is the first public outcome of the many-faceted, innovative ArtAfrica Project, which began in 2001. It was launched by the Fine Arts Department of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation within the framework of the Foundation's policy of development aid in January 2005. It was created to promote and to stimulate knowledge and understanding of the work of contemporary African artists or artists of African descent residing in African Portuguese-speaking countries - Angola, Cabo Verde, Guiné-Bissau, Mozambique and S.Tomé e Príncipe. The work done by similar diasporic communities based in Portugal, Europe and elsewhere was also included. The ArtAfrica goals are to create opportunities for dialogue, collaboration and exchange of information about the artistic practices in those five countries, and on the other hand, another of its intentions is to provide a platform from which to launch widespread debates on the post-colonial in local contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]