DJ Pierra Makena has expressed her frustrations after an event she’d planned at Park ‘n’ Chill was cancelled by the authorities owing to Covid-19 related protocols. Park n chill is an outdoor event where revellers show up with their cars and relax while enjoying some great music mixes from the DJ. In her post on […]
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Sport, Arts and Culture Minister, Nathi Mthethwa, has extended his condolences to the family of television and film icon, Shona Ferguson, who passed away on Friday due to COVID-19 related complications. Ferguson, aged 47, was married to actress and producer Connie Ferguson. He cut his teeth in the sector in various television productions, including Generations, […]
Experts have questioned Kenya’s decision to “lend” delicate fossils and ancient tools dating back millions of years to a small museum in Southern France for an exhibition. The decision to allow the more than 145 specimen, which were discovered in Kenya over the years, to be flown out for display is said to have gone […]
The English star and art collector says the Benin Bronzes looted from Nigeria during the colonial era should be returned to their rightful owners. The noise inside the Signature African Art gallery in London, England, evaporated when Maro Itoje walked through its doors on a muggy June evening. The clamour that had existed only an […]
Two artists – Busayo Lawal and E. D. Adegoke – are holding two solo exhibitions at the same time – from Saturday, August 7 to Thursday, August 26 – and at the same gallery space: kó, which is located along Cameron Road in Ikoyi, Lagos. That’s right, two solo exhibitions. Not a joint exhibition. While […]
Streaming services are the new gold in the global movie industry, and in Nigeria, Kike Moronkeji, a qualified scientist and engineer in different fields, joins the race with the launch of Gidi Box Office, writes Vanessa Obioha As far back as she can remember, Kike Moronkeji has always been arts inclined. Her creative streak was […]
Hiplife and Afropop artist Angel Maxine says her song aims to comfort LGBT+ Ghanaians facing threats from authorities and a rise in verbal and physical attacks from the public NAIROBI, July 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Ghana’s first openly transgender musician has released a song to boost the morale of the West African nation’s LGBT+ […]
Filmmaker and actor Shona Ferguson, 47, has died, ENCA reports. Ferguson was married to Connie Ferguson, and was well-known for his roles in Generations and The Queen, and his most recent role in The Kings of Joburg on Netflix. He had reportedly undergone a heart operation at the Milpark hospital in Johannesburg a week ago […]
Culture Minister Inas Abdel Dayem on Thursday attended a performance featuring Egypt’s youngest singer at the Vienna Opera Mariam Tahoun for the first time. Tahoun, 16, joined Cairo Opera’s troupe in the performance that was held on Gomhoreya Theatre in Cairo and attended by head of Cairo Opera House Magdy Saber. Abdel Dayem asserted the […]
If men were made to read women’s stories it would reduce the rates of violence against women, Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie said on Wednesday evening during the Vice-Chancellor’s Open Lecture at the University of Cape Town. The writer was making a case for the power of storytelling to change the world. Her lecture, entitled […]
The Shona community is now Kenya’s newest tribe. This is after 1,649 members of the community, who had been stateless, were presented with citizenship certificates. Speaking during the ceremony on Wednesday, Interior Cabinet Secretary Fred Matiang’i said all stateless people who are eligible for Kenyan citizenship will be recognised as citizens by this year’s Jamhuri […]
Mr Kyari is charged alongside five others with offences bordering on wire fraud, conducting financial transactions involving proceeds of unlawful activity, and aiding and abetting illegal use and transfer of a means of identification. The United States of America government has named a Nigerian celebrated police officer, Abba Kyari, among co-conspirators of Ramon Abass, aka […]
Abba Kyari says he facilitated a business transaction involving Hushpuppi but never took money from the fraudster. Celebrated Nigerian police detective, Abba Kyari, has denied an allegation that he collected a bribe from convicted fraudster, Ramon “Hushpuppi” Abbas, to arrest fellow fraudster, Kelly Chibuzor Vincent. An online newspaper reported that court documents in the United […]
Gospel musician Alex Apoko, popularly known as Ringtone, set tongues wagging on Thursday after he showed up to the Kibera Law Courts in an ambulance. Ringtone was set to appear in court after a street confrontation with controversial blogger Robert Alai, who he alleges assaulted him. Alai was arrested last week after viral videos began […]
Gospel singer Ringtone on Thursday arrived at the Kibera Law courts in an ambulance while seemingly in pain. The musician, whose real name is Alex Apoko, was in court to attend to a case in which he’s accused controversial blogger Robert Alai of assault and malicious damage to property. He was dressed in what appears […]
Tunis/Tunisia — Tunisian Olympic 400m freestyle champion Ayoub Hafnaoui offers the swimming suit, with which he won the final, to the Olympic Museum, during a ceremony organised Thursday in Tokyo in the presence of International Swimming Federation (FINA) President Kuwaiti Houssain Al Musalam, the Director of the International Olympic Committee’s Olympic Art, Culture and Heritage […]
SOUTH AFRICAN based Amapiano goddess, Sha Sha, real name Charmaine Shamiso Mpambiro, is currently working on her debut album. The Mutare bred songbird has been flying the country’s flag high in the regional music scene making a name for herself in the genre that has since dominated the South African entertainment sector. In 2020 she […]
The Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has launched two new promotional films on Egyptian tourism on the most important electronic platforms on social media networks of markets exporting tourists to Egypt. The films include several tourists of different nationalities speaking about their lovely experiences during their visits to Egyptian tourist resorts this month. The tourists […]