Promoting Africa
The 2019 Women's Prize for Fiction will be awarded this summer on June 5th 2019, and three writers of Nigerian descent are already on the long list of authors. Three writers of Nigerian descent are names on the longlist of the 2019 Women’s Prize for Fiction. Oyinkan Braithwaite, Akwaeke Emezi and Diana Evans were announced on…
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On 27th February 2019, IKEA will unveil its African ÖVERALLT collection, at the Design Indaba Festival in Cape Town, the result of its collaboration with a group of African artists. The ÖVERALLT journey started two years ago, when Swedish-founded multinational retailer IKEA, teamed up with a group of designers, architects, artists and creatives from 7 African countries (South Africa, Kenya, Senegal, Egypt, Angola, Ivory Coast…
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Perhaps the first all black comic book hero creator, Emmy Award winning illustrator Dawud Anyabwile has been spending time in West Africa working to teach kids how to "Draw from the Soul". As the creative mind behind popular cartoons like Rugrats, Wild Thornberries and Daria, Anyabwile most known for his early 90's hit comic series…
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Senegal inaugurated on December 6, the much awaited Museum of Black Civilisations, the world's largest museum of collection of black art. Since the colonial era, most of Africa's artifacts were taken and placed in western museums, ripping Africa from its cultural history, and preventing African countries from telling their own story.This is now changing, with…
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The long awaited Global Citizen Festival took place at the FNB Stadium, on Sunday in Johannesburg, to celebrate Nelson Mandela’s 100th birthday. On December 2nd, 2018, Global Citizen brought together its largest contingency of heads of state, dignitaries, a group of the world’s most talented artists and influencers, and thousands of global citizens to celebrate…
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OAFF stands for Online African Film Festival. This initiative has been started and designed by the organisation Cinewax. From the 15th November until the 15th December, you can watch African movies online, from 15 different countries. More about the Online African Film Festival For more than 3 years, the team of Cinewax has been…
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A fossil of a new dinosaur species has been discovered in South Africa, and is said to be a relative of the brontosaurus that weighed 26,000 pounds, about double the size of a large African elephant. According to researchers at University of Johannesburg, these fossils could well be the distant ancestors of the giant 60-ton sauropods…
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