Africa: A Mythical Giant Snake Is Helping Raise Climate Awareness in Malawi
[African Arguments] Sensitive campaigners are finding that belief in Napolo, a legendary multi-headed monster, is no barrier to environmental understanding and action.
Africa: Creative Arts Industry to Deepen Ties Between Africa, Russia
[Ghanaian Times] The Innosocium Foundation, a social platform of the Roscongress Foundation, held a session entitled ‘Cultural Products and Brands for a Creative Economy’ at the Russia-Africa Economic and Humanitarian Forum in held St Petersburg, Russia.
Africa: African-Language Animation Short Film Wins Prestigious Global Award!
[Scrolla] An animated short film produced completely in Sepedi, one of South Africa’s 12 official languages, has won a BAFTA in the Animation category of the 2023 BAFTA Student Awards.
Africa: Zimbabwean Legend, Thomas Mapfumo Retires in Exile
[African Arguments] After five decades on the stage, one of the continent’s great musical innovators, and an outspoken critic of corrupt politics, takes his last bow – in exile, because it was too dangerous to go home.
Africa: Google Includes Swahili in Its AI-Driven Chatbot Bard
[Capital FM] Nairobi — Google has included Swahili on its conversational artificial intelligence (AI) service Bard, becoming the first language on the continent to be embedded in the solution.
Africa: How an African Collection of Art in Canada Is Celebrated With Care and Community
[The Conversation Africa] A significant collection of traditional African art has had a home in Canada for almost a hundred years.
Africa: Five African Writers Shortlisted for Prestigious Caine Prize
[Caine Prize] The Caine Prize for African Writing, an esteemed annual award honouring outstanding African writers, is pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2023 edition. The five shortlisted stories were carefully selected from a pool of 297 entrie…
Africa: Africa’s Linguistic Diversity Goes Largely Unnoticed in Research On Multilingualism
[The Conversation Africa] Language is a uniquely human skill. That’s why studying how people learn and use language is crucial to understanding what it means to be human. Given that most people in the world – an estimated 60% – are multilingual, meanin…
Africa: Belgium’s Africamuseum Has a Dark Colonial Past – It’s Making Slow Progress in Confronting This History
[The Conversation Africa] Racist displays and stories remain on display in several western European museums. They include grotesque objects depicting African people as “savage” and “wild”. Narratives of a “continent without history” and fantasies of Eu…
Africa: Afropop Closeup Podcast Season 8 Begins July 4
[Afropop] As podcast subscribers and listeners know, the Afropop Closeup podcast series, hosted by individual producers, is a place where we go beyond the music into politics, religion, history and culture. It’s a wide open forum allowing producers to …