December 04, 2003
Angola: A Death For a Song and the Triumph of Impunity
Angolan writer and human rights activist Rafael Marques wrote this account of the late-November killing of a member of the public by presidential guards. Read more »
May 05, 2003
Ethiopia: Pioneer Artist Skunder Boghossian Dies in Washington, DC
Ethiopian artist and pioneer of modern African art Alexander Skunder Boghossian was found prone and unmoving in his Washington, DC apartment on Sunday by friends who visited to… Read more »
May 01, 2003
Ethiopia: Art from the Ethiopian Diaspora Featured at the Smithsonian Museum
"Ethiopian Passages: Dialogues in the Diaspora" will be at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art in Washington, DC from May 1 to October 5, 2003. It is a… Read more »
October 09, 2002
Liberia: Liberia's Story Needs Telling, Says Film Producer
Part of what her television film "Liberia -- America's Stepchild" portrays, says producer Nancee Oku Bright, is that Liberia's "usefulness" to the United States ended, in the eyes… Read more »
October 08, 2002
Africa: Bono Recognized for Work Against Poverty, Aids
The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences in the United States, which presents the annual Grammy Awards for music, will present its 2003 MusiCares Person of the Year… Read more »
April 30, 2002
Africa: Afropop Benefit Draws Stars, Fans
African songs of freedom rang out strongly in New York Monday night, accompanied by the enthusiastic stamping, clapping and ululating of an appreciative crowd at the Bottom Line… Read more »
March 01, 2002
Africa: Rock Star Bono's Agenda For Africa
"It's your melody, I'm gonna try and sing it," Bono, the lead singer of the rock band, U2, told a group of advocates for Africa at the headquarters of the charity, Africare, in… Read more »
February 28, 2002
Africa: Panel Selects the Continent's 'Best Books'
After days of debate at the Golden Tulip Hotel in Accra, Ghana, a 17-person jury has selected the best 100 books from Africa written in the 20th century. They considered more than… Read more »
December 30, 2001
Congo-Kinshasa: Fine Carvings that Bridge Art and Anthropology
'Spectacular display - the art of Nkanu initiation rituals is the new exhibition at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art in Washington DC, December 16-March 3 Read more »
December 10, 2001
Africa: Tools Indicate 'Modern' Human Behavior Began in Africa
New discoveries made by archaeologists at Blombos Cave high on a limestone cliff above the Indian Ocean are challenging a long-held theory that modern human behavior originated in… Read more »
September 25, 2001
Africa: PBS Africa Series Resumes, ABC's Congo Programmes Still On Hold
A landmark television series on Africa which was pushed off the schedules by coverage of the attacks against the World Trade Center and the Pentagon is back on air. Read more »
September 17, 2001
Africa: African Art Scholar Dies
Dr. Roy Sieber, the first scholar in the United States to receive a Ph.D in African art history, died early Friday morning in Bloomington, Indiana where he was a Professor Emeritus… Read more »
September 07, 2001
Africa: Africa's 100 Best Books
Approximately 1,700 nominations for 100 of Africa's best books of the 20th century have been received, according to a jury formed last month at the Zimbabwe International Book Fair… Read more »
June 21, 2001
Nigeria: Public Or Private Rescue For The Film Industry
Motion picture producers in Nigeria this week agreed that funding was the answer to their problems, but there was no agreement on who was to provide it. Read more »
Africa: Show Off Your Photography and Be Eligible for a Prize
Our special coverage of the African Solar Eclipse of 2001 has relied on photographs sent to us from a Williams College expedition to gather scientific data on the sun's corona.… Read more »
June 19, 2001
Nigeria: A Movie Industry In Search Of Investors
What should an authentically Nigerian film be like? And what's the best way to distribute it to ensure maximum returns to the producers or investors? Read more »
March 04, 2001
Africa: Coveted Fespaco Prize Goes to Moroccan Director
The moving and gut-wrenching tale of survival among a group of grubby, smelly street children in Casablanca, Morocco - who beg, sell cigarettes and homemade shell necklaces, sniff… Read more »
March 03, 2001
Africa: Tensions Cloud Last Days of Film Festival
The 17th edition of Fespaco, the pan African festival of film and television in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso - and the largest such event on the continent -- is coming to the end… Read more »
March 01, 2001
Africa: 'Journey to Ouaga': A Comedy - and a Tragedy
Voyage a Ouaga (Journey to Ouaga) is the title of a movie in competition at the 17th edition of the pan African film festival in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. It is a comedy about a… Read more »
Africa: The Other Reason for Going to Fespaco - to Shop
Africans from all over the continent, and visitors from other parts of the world, have converged in Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso this week, to attend the 17th edition… Read more »
February 27, 2001
Africa: Fespaco Gears Up With Two Movie Hits
The 17th pan-African film and television festival, which opened in the Burkinabe capital Ouagadougou on Saturday, came into its own on Monday night. The festival was in full… Read more »
February 26, 2001
Africa: Ai Keita Yara - From Queen to Soothsayer, From Celluloid to Video
You cannot miss Ai Keita Yara. She could easily pass for a queen. She is tall, dark and regal with a commanding presence, just as one would imagine an imposing African monarch of… Read more »
February 25, 2001
Africa: Gala Opening for Africa's Premiere Film Festival
A stunning performance by the Senegalese musical superstar, Youssou N'Dour, stole the show at the opening of the 17th edition of the Pan African Festival of Film and Television of… Read more »
February 24, 2001
Africa: Gabonese Film, "The Elephants Balls," Opens Fespaco
The Gabonese director of the movie "Les Couilles de lElephant" (The Elephants Balls), which opens Fespaco 2001, the 17th pan-African festival of film and television, calls his… Read more »
February 23, 2001
Africa: Ouagadougou Opens Its Arms To Africa's Film Community
Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, is putting the finishing touches to preparations for the 17th edition of Fespaco 2001, the biennial Festival of Pan African Film and… Read more »
