The decline in Kenyan medals at the world championships is due to increased competition and a lack of investment at home.
Arts, Culture and Sport
Arts, Culture and Sport Celebrating the Kenyan poet, Grandmaster Masese who preserved the Abagusii culture through poetry and song
Masese worked his whole life to preserve the Gusii culture.
Arts, Culture and Sport Book Review: New African poetry turns history pictures to the wall
Old Love Skin, a pan-African poetry collection, finds new voices summoning divinity where they please, and turning history pictures to the wall to fill in the blank negatives with ambivalence, impiety and intrigue. Poetry is, here, voice and breath, medicine and blood, origin and trace, unresolvedly tangled in a witching combat.
Arts, Culture and Sport Beyoncé has helped usher in a renaissance for African artists
With Renaissance, Beyoncé is again shaping pop culture, honouring black disco pioneers and Africa’s rise.
Arts, Culture and Sport Obituary — Cont Mhlanga was relentlessly committed to arts development and free speech
Zimbabwean Dramatist Continueloving “Cont” Mhlanga died in Bulawayo on Monday (1 August), aged 64. The highly regarded theatre director also made his mark as screenwriter, actor, arts manager and broadcaster. Banned and arrested by Robert Mugabe’s government, he was also fearlessly committed to free speech.
Arts, Culture and Sport How used clothes became part of Africa’s creative economy – and fashion sense
Used clothes are being repurposed but with fresh fashionable spins.
Arts, Culture and Sport Meet Kenyan creative Polly Irungu, the first official photo editor for Office of VP Kamala Harris
The White House visual storytellers help shape public perceptions and craft the impressions that become fixed in the collective imagination. Visual archives are, therefore, a crucial tool in defining an administration and its leaders. Kenyan self-taught photographer Polly Irungu is now a part of how Kamala Harris’ narrative unfolds.
Arts, Culture and Sport Sungura cyberture – Mark Ngwazi on a mission to broaden Zimbabwe’s biggest music genre
Mark Ngwazi inherited a Sungura songbook which depended a little too much on folk wisdom and flat moralising. Humour, wordplay and counterintuitive observation could be Ngwazi’s strongest points but his charisma provides the binding virtue to the songs he is building from memes, jokes and wisecracks. Six albums in, his outdoor church is only growing.
Arts, Culture and Sport Setting the record straight: Burna Boy didn’t create a music genre called Afrofusion
Afrofusion is a music style that existed even before Burna Boy was born.