On International Women's Day (March 8, 2023), five teenage girls uploaded a social media a video of themselves performing the Calm Down Dance Challenge, writes Ananya Jah Read more »
Spicy harissa paste from Tunisia, Morocco's Raï music, and Kalela dance from Zambia were selected to join United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural ... Read more »
Police has said the just concluded Nyege Nyege festival held on September 15th to 18th, 2022 had no major crime incident reported. "We didn't register cases of immorality like it ... Read more »
Archaeologists spend a lot of time examining the remains of distant pasts, which includes the study of rock paintings, write Neil Rusch and Sarah Wurz for The Conversation. ... Read more »
YouTube has revealed the names of African creators who have been selected to join a global cohort of 135 from around the world, in its flagship #YouTubeBlack Voices Fund ... Read more »
Join Bands, Not Gangs offers music lessons to vulnerable teens in dangerous Western Cape neighbourhoods, encouraging those at risk to choose an instrument rather than a gun,
Despite low rates of internet access and high data costs across the continent, many African musicians, comedians and artists have boosted their online presence during Covid-19 to ... Read more »
For most people around the world, the music industry represents glamour, fame, riches and influence. On the inside though it is famously opaque, litigious and corrupt. If South ... Read more »
Africa is representing the best artists in the game. Nigerian music superstar, Ayo Balogun, popularly known as Wizkid, has bagged two nominations at the 64th ... Read more »
Somali filmmaker Khadar Ahmed has won the top prize at the FESPACO film festival in Burkina Faso for The Gravedigger's Wife, which he wrote and directed. The film is also ... Read more »
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