Yoruba Gallery’s Odun Ifa 2024 exhibition showcased an eclectic mix of art from talented artists presenting the essence of Ifa / Orunmila in practice, belief, culture and lifestyle, including the Orisa’s associated with Ifa such as Orisa Ibeji and Orisa Esu in his multidimensional forms and energies.
[ENA] Addis Ababa -- Ethiopia is making utmost efforts to identify and recover artifacts taken out of the country, Ethiopian Heritage Authority revealed.
[New Zimbabwe] ZIM hip-hop sensation, Saintfloew, whose real name is Tawanda Mambo, was involved in a car accident near Greencroft Shopping Centre in Harare on Saturday night.
[RFI] Video game makers from around the globe have converged on Cologne for the annual Gamescom trade fair - the world's largest gaming event, where new products are unveiled and investors connect with developers. Among the 1,500 exhibitors are a group of African gaming professionals showcasing games rooted in the continent's culture and history.
[Sankofa Book Awards] Nairobi, August 21, 2025 - A historic milestone for African literature and its meeting point with cinema. The novel O Recluso: O Princípio e o Fim de uma Injustiça (The Inmate: The Beginning and the End of an Injustice) by Angolan writer Nituecheni Africano, winner of the 10th edition of the Sankofa Book Awards Kenya 2025, will be adapted by Nigeria's powerful film industry Nollywood -- an agreement officially announced and confirmed by both parties during
[Premium Times] Cancel culture in Nigeria is fast, final, and unforgiving. Mohbad's death showed how outrage can wreck a career overnight, but does it bring justice, or just another kind of violence?
[Nile Post] Any marriage that is celebrated according to the rites of an African community where at least either the bride or groom is a member of that community, is deemed a customary marriage.
[263Chat] A bumper crowd thronged Chakohwa High School this week for the Chimanimani Good Food, Seed and Music Festival where local farmers walked away with prizes ranging from hoes to cooking pots and with renewed determination to build resilient food systems.
[The Conversation Africa] Nollywood, Nigeria's prolific video-film industry, has been popular in Kenya since it was introduced to east Africa at around the turn of the century.
[Afropop] In the 1970s and '80s, three groups dominated the musical scene of Morocco: Nass al-Ghiwane, Jil Jilala and Lamchahab. Manned by five explosive talents, Lamchahab was arguably the most prominent of the three, entrancing North Africans with more than just their melodies. Armed with a political and spiritual fervor, the words sung by these men were, to many, more than just music--they were poetry.
[African Arguments] I first encountered the work of Patrick Chabal in his book Africa Works: Disorder as Political Instrument, written with Jean-Pascal Daloz. I bought the book on a scorchingly hot afternoon in central Nairobi at the turn of the millennium twenty-five years ago and, in my often-uneventful workplace in the Ministry of Planning, I devoured it immediately. While I later discovered that Chabal is considered provocative and even controversial by some, I was engrossed by his analysis of African political affairs
[Nyasa Times] A storm is brewing in Malawi's creative sector after outraged artists petitioned the Office of the Ombudsman, accusing the Copyright Fund Committee of shameless abuse of power and corruption in the allocation of grants.
[Nyasa Times] It is beyond shameful that the very institution tasked with protecting Malawian artists--the Copyright Society of Malawi (COSOMA)--has become a playground for greed and self-enrichment. Recent revelations that board members, including Chairperson Bishop Chimwemwe Mhango, Wendy Harawa, and Deborah Ntopa, awarded themselves grants from the Copyright Fund is nothing short of daylight robbery.
[Scrolla] Beauty and the Bester will show private files, court videos and emotional interviews with Nandipha Magudumana's family and friends. The series tells how Thabo Bester escaped jail, lived in hiding with Magudumana, and was arrested with her in Tanzania.
[Daily Maverick] The multi-award-winning and iconic ensemble's collaboration with Nduduzo Makhathini and Mbuso Khoza is yet another reminder of their timelessness.
[South African Music Awards] The Recording Industry of South Africa (RiSA) is turning up the heat this Women's Month with a nominee reveal worthy of the nation's biggest music stage. The 31st Annual South African Music Awards (SAMAs) will officially announce its glittering list of nominees in a live-streamed event on 28 August 2025, from 18h00-19h30, broadcast exclusively on the SAMA YouTube channel and social media platforms.
[This Day] Nseobong Okon-Ekong reports that this particular training focused on five modules to assist BetPawa Customer Service staff in identifying clients struggling with problem gambling and how to help them
