Dr. Kwegyir Aggrey "Only the best is good enough for Africa."
Kwame Nkrumah "The independence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of Africa."
By Saskia Houttuin Fashion in Africa is breaking away from its traditional forms, making way for a new generation of African designers. These days, their innovative clothing is seen everywhere: in the street, in shops and on catwalks, on the continent as well as in the rest of the world. Over the past ten […]
By Craig Halliday Edinburgh — The Edinburgh Fringe Festival is the largest arts festival in the world and takes place every August for three weeks. The festival sees thousands of performers and entertainers coming from every continent, resulting in hundreds of shows in a multitude of venues across Scotland’s capital. From big names to […]
Many Ghanaians raised in the traditional family setting where more than one nuclear family lived in a home may be familiar with such past times as storytelling. Invariably, the eponymous hero of such stories would be Kwaku Ananse and his family comprising Okonore Yaa and Ntikuma. Unfortunately, however, such forms of traditional entertainment are dying […]
Last week, Malian singer and guitarist Afel Bocoum was joined in Mali by British musician Damon Albarn for a unique music project aimed at drawing international attention to the growing humanitarian crisis in Mali and to the regional food crisis in West and Central Africa. More than 18 million people in nine countries across the […]
Described as Africa’s leading literary award, the 2012 Caine Prize for African Writing has been awarded to Nigerian Rotimi Babatunde for his short story entitled Bombay’s Republic published in the Mirabilia Review. Chair of the judging panel, Bernardine Evaristo announced Babatunde as the winner of the £10 000 prize at an awards dinner held on […]
By Russell South wood, Institute for Security Studies (Tshwane/Pretoria) London — There are now several online and mobile music TV platforms that have started in Africa. Some like Iroko Partners started with Nollywood film and went into music, whilst others like Spinlet have started with music and could easily go into TV programming. Orange […]
The singer has instructed her designers to come up with a hat filled with cockroaches. She’s grown fond of the insects since being informed of a study which proved they respond to her music more than songs by any other artist. A source said: “Lady Gaga has been looking to top her famous meat […]
The South African Music Rights Organisation (SAMRO) Foundation has awarded a total of R1.13 million in music study bursaries for 2012, giving 113 young South Africans a helping hand. A total of 195 applications were received for this year’s bursaries, submitted by prospective and existing undergraduate and postgraduate students who are pursuing full-time music studies […]
LOCAL musicians have been called on to unite and toughen up in their fight against piracy which is threatening to destroy the entertainment industry. It is a call from their Ghanaian counterparts, as delivered in Dar es Salaam by local music expert, Angelo Luhala, who recently visited the West African nation. Luhala, who is the […]
THE State last week withdrew criminal charges against Namibia’s musician Martin Morocky, aka ‘The Dogg’, in the Swakopmund Magistrate’s Court, on the condition that he pay a N$4 000 admission-of-guilt fine on a charge of forging a car license disk. Morocky paid the fine. If he had not, the criminal charge of forgery would have […]