Nigeria: Femi Kuti Issues Disclaimer Over APC’s Use of Fela’s Song for Political Campaign
[Premium Times] “We do not involve Fela’s music in any political campaign at home or abroad and choose to remain neutral”.
South Africa: Traditional Healers Gather to Clean Mpumalanga’s Polluted Rivers
[Scrolla] Traditional healer Fannie Mashaba is pleading with communities to take care of their waste and stop polluting rivers and streams.
Nigeria: London Museum Returns Looted Benin Bronzes to Nigeria
[Premium Times] The Horniman Museum houses a collection of 72 treasured items that were taken by force from Benin City in 1897.
South Africa: Koos Prinsloo – the Cult Afrikaans Writer Has Been Translated to English – Here’s a Review
[The Conversation Africa] There are some writers you wish you had encountered years ago. There are some authors you only discover – for many reasons – years after their death.
Nigeria: Atiku Promises Fundings, Support for Creative Industry
[This Day] The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has promised to support the creative sector with necessary incentives if elected as president in the 2023 general election.
Nigeria: Davido Spotted in Public for First Time Since Son’s Death
[Premium Times] The 30-year-old has been in seclusion from the public since his son, Ifeanyi, died in October.
Africa: Black ‘Fraud-Days’ and the Shocking Cost of Staying Fashionable
[IPS] Madrid — Please take a quick look at this short report before rushing to shop on a Black Friday, Christmas sales and all those long chains of big discounts and wholesales, most of them are fake, as often denounced by consumers organisations that…
Nigeria: Paris Exhibition Celebrates Fela Kuti, the Rebel King of Afrobeat
[RFI] The Paris Philharmonie is paying homage to Fela Kuti, pioneer of Afrobeat – a musical current that emerged from Nigeria in a swirl of postcolonial enthusiasm, experimentation and political rebellion. A major exhibition traces the origins of Fela …
Nigeria: Full Winners List – Tems Wins Best New Act At 2022 Soul Train Awards
[Vanguard] Nigerian international singer Tems has won the Best New Artist award at the 2022 Soul Train Awards.
Rwanda: Rwanda, UNESCO to Revive Talks On Heritage Sites
[New Times] Rwanda will soon revive discussions with United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)’s on listing memorial sites of the Genocide against the Tutsi on the World Heritage Sites list, Jean Damascene Bizimana, the …