Category : ARTS & CULTURE

Tapiwa Matsinde’s book, Contemporary Design Africa, challenges perceptions of African creativity by focusing on design and innovation on the continent. Tapiwa Matsinde is a British-Zimbabwean...

On the 63rd anniversary of the 23 July 1952 revolution, Ahram Online revisits classic films that attempted to capture changes in the socio-political system Adham...

The United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) praised the people of Timbuktu for reconstructing cultural heritage sites destroyed by armed groups, saying “those...

  By Molara Wood Title: The Rain Fardel Author: Tade Ipadeola 71pp, Khalam Collective, Ibadan, (Nigeria), 2005   To poet, Tade Ipadeola, the guises of...

A legal battle has ensued between Insurance Company of East Africa (ICEA), FedEx Express and Ms Irene Muteteri, a client of the two companies. Ms...

The past has a disconcerting habit of bursting, uninvited and unwelcome, into the present. This year history gate-crashed modern America in the form of a...

Posted about an hour ago PHOTO: Flexn will be one of the many performances inspired from the Congo involved in this year’s Brisbane Festival.(Supplied: Brisbane...

Ghana dancehall sensation Stonebwoy has picked up the Best International Act: Africa award at the 2015 BET awards ceremony at Los Angeles in the USA....

The Soil went platinum with their eponymous debut album released in 2011. PHOTO: Native Rhythms At a glittering red carpet bash in Los Angeles tonight,...

Rabat – A Moroccan researcher, Moha Ennaji, has just published a new book that discusses the historical and social significance of the Amazigh culture in...

Kenyatta International Conference Center (KICC) – Amphitheater Nairobi, Kenya The World Bank Group in Nairobi is organizing a theater performance followed by a panel discussion...

Prof. Wole Soyinka has lost the race to be Oxford’s Professor of poetry to English poet, playwright and novelist, Simon Armitage.  Armitage, the popular poet and broadcaster, secured 1,221...

auction house in Paris A photo taken in Paris on June 1, 2015 shows Ta-Nedjem’s funerary linen, a rare Egyptian polychrome linen square with a...

Drawing inspiration from the Seattle Art Museum’s celebrated African collection, Disguise: Masks and Global African Art (opening June 18, 2015) is a groundbreaking exhibition that...

Ben Brown Fine Arts is presenting the first UK exhibition of French-Algerian artist Djamel Tatah whose work has been widely exhibited in France and abroad....

Leo Barraclough The British Council has launched a U.K.-Nigeria screenwriting partnership program, Script Junction, which will run from June to November. The aim of the...

Mohamed Maarouf Egypt’s antiquities minister issued orders on Wednesday to intensify security at antiquities sites across the country in coordination with the Interior Ministry, in...

BOOK REVIEW: Meditation in the workplace  Mindful Work: How Meditation Is Changing Business from the Inside Out, by David Gelles THE author of this book,...

Breathe Umphefumlo reimagines Puccini’s La Bohème in the TB-wracked township of Khayelitsha In 2008, a wave of violent, xenophobic attacks on migrant workers in South...

African song, dance, taste and language have all been welcomed into many aspects of U.S. culture, even when the actual people of African descent have...