Category : ARTS & CULTURE

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...

Not many in her homeland appear to know about her unique story. But in other lands, especially Europe and America, she is a ‘goddess’ whose...

  BB King has died in his home in Las Vegas at the age of 89. Photograph: Ricky Fitchett/Zuma Press/Corbis Blues legend BB King has...

Picture: THINKSTOCK IT WAS the best experience of my life, says artist Ilka van Schalkwyk of the Paris residency that comes with winning the Barclays...

As Charlotte Campbell-Stephen sat in a Kenyan police station reporting the brutal attack and gang rape she endured over an eight-hour period, the police interview...

GETTY Picasso’s Women of Algiers was last auctioned in 1997 – it tripled the expected price Picasso’s Women of Algiers (Version O) fetched a staggering...