Welcome to this week's African Arty Beats, exclusive to Channel Africa, the African Perspective.

As always, we give you the latest African art headlines from all parts of the world.

In this week's segment, the University of Johannesburg confers South African world-renowned painter, Esther Mahlangu, with an honorary doctorate; the Brooklyn Museum responds to the outrage prompted by its hiring of a white curator for African art; Burundian singer and musician, Khadja Nin, pays tribute to the late Mama Winnie Madikizela Mandela.