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Walk into almost any national museum on the continent and you will feel two stories pulling against each other. African Museums hold the objects, voices and memories that tell who we are, yet many of them were built, named and arranged by the very powers that once ruled us. That tension is the heart of […]
Chidimma Adetshina, a 23-year-old law student, was finally crowned Miss Universe Nigeria, completing a big turnaround in her journey through beauty pageantry. The win, which came at the end of a stormy period, was one in which Adetshina was compelled to pull out of the Miss South Africa contest following a trail of probes regarding […]
Every year, thousands of white-clad individuals swarm Glidji, southeast Togo, to take part in the Epé-Ekpé festival—a major Guin cultural and spiritual celebration. The Ekpé-sosso, or stone ceremony, an ancient custom carried down through the years, is fundamental to this event. The Guin people mark their new year annually, between late August and early September. […]
Thousands of displaced children’s education hangs precariously as Egypt struggles with a huge flood of migrants escaping the terrible turmoil in Sudan. With women and children making most of the new arrivals, the number of registered Sudanese refugees in Egypt has grown almost seven-fold since the start of bloodshed in Sudan in April 2023. Particularly […]
The former Côte d’Ivoire international goalkeeper has been tipped to join the club, which will be promoted back to Ligue 1 at the end of the 2023-2024 season. A past player at Stade d’Abidjan, a club with whom he made a good impression, Gbohouo set his sights on golf after just one season. However, for […]
Beyoncé Knowles continues her foray into the world of country music with the launch of a whisky brand called ‘SirDavis’ under the LVMH empire, entering the same industry that made her husband a billionaire and could push the superstar musician closer to the same title based on her performances. On Instagram on Tuesday morning, Beyoncé […]
According to data published on Tuesday by the country’s national statistics agency, South Africa’s official unemployment rate rose from 32.9% in the first quarter to 33.5% in the second quarter of this year. Employment fell to 16.7 million in the second quarter, while the number of unemployed rose by 158,000 to 8.4 million, according to […]
Executive county councils have put in place measures to deliver on their promises to win the trust of the electorate for the benefit of women aspiring to leadership positions. Chairman Ruto presided over their campaign strategy to promote the election of more women to various political positions, particularly governorships, ahead of the 2027 elections. 01. […]
website looks at the global growth of the South African genre and its impact on the music industry. It is complemented by an amapiano hub on the platform, offering playlists and podcasts describing the origins, sounds and future of the music genre. In 2023, amapiano hit over 1.4 billion streams on Spotify, with the period […]
African fashion is as varied and inventive as the continent itself. Now, as part of the United Kingdom’s most comprehensive display of Africa’s fashion to date, Africa’s many gifted designers, models, photographers, illustrators, makeup artists, and other professionals take the stage. Celebrating the “irresistible creativity, ingenuity, and unstoppable global impact of contemporary African fashions” via […]
Also known as Divine Ikubor, Rema has been setting world records since 2022.His “Calm Down” with Selena Gomez broke the record for most listened to Afrobeats song in the US.Calm Down” was released as the second single from his debut studio album, Rave & Roses, in March 2022. The Nigerian musician’s original version of the […]
African food in the diaspora is unique among the busy streets of far-off cities since the tastes of our ancestors still linger on dishes and on palates of our distant cousins. African food’s trip across the diaspora is one of resiliency, inventiveness, and cultural synthesis. A complex narrative of how the culinary legacy of Africa […]
Including the visual arts of sub-Saharan Africa, African art consists of a rich tapestry of media, including sculpture, painting, ceramics, rock art, textiles, masks, personal decorating, and jewelry. Given its great variety, this art genre is not readily summed up. From ceremonial purposes and pure aesthetic enjoyment to entertainment and political or ideological relevance, art […]
Egyptian footballer Mohamed Salah currently plays for Liverpool in the English Premier League. He was born on 15 June 1992 in Nagrig, Egypt, and began his professional career in the Egyptian top flight with Al Mokawloon in 2010. One of the best players in the world, Salah is known for his speed, agility and goal-scoring […]
From the mid-20th century forward, African theater—especially those south of the Sahara—fluttered in the postcolonial era. With colonial borders sometimes neglecting strong cultural and linguistic ties, the cultural and historical impacts across Africa are complex. African theater thus resists easy historical or national classification. Each enlivens the other as modern literary theater in English, French, […]
The Amapiano Africa Summit is one of the key events aimed at highlighting and supporting the great talent present in the Amapiano music scene. Celebrated yearly at the Vodaworld Dome in Midrand, this conference has grown to be a pillar for fans, business leaders, and budding performers, all driven by Amapiano. From its start, the […]
Celebrating Bruce Onobrakpeya’s Legacy National Museum of African Art Presenting “Bruce Onobrakpeya: The Mask and the Cross, an exhibition honoring the extraordinary career of Bruce Onobrakpeya, a key player in Nigerian modernism,” the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art is pleased to offer Onobrakpeya accomplished major commissions for the Catholic Church, including his well-known “Fourteen […]
As part of a special cultural exchange arranged by the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), members of the Maasai community lately exchanged the vast plains of Kenya for the picturesque banks of the River Alyn in Rossett. This project sought to encourage educational cooperation and environmental protection. An original conversation. The Maasai visited […]
