Leader of the People’s Band, Alick Macheso, is the humble hero of the workingman and the Harare scene’s most obvious father figure after the death of Oliver Mtukudzi. With more aggression than retrospection, he can take Sungura to new frontiers.
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Arts, Culture and Sport Biyi Bandele, a serial storyteller who elevated Nigerian culture
From Blood Sisters to Half of a Yellow Sun, he was loved for his TV series and films as well as his novel Burma Boy.
Arts, Culture and Sport A lucrative new African football league is coming: the pros and cons
The Africa Super League brings big money but a logistical nightmare and a missed opportunity for commercial club development.
Arts, Culture and Sport How Burna Boy set the world alight with his mixed brew of influences
With his new album Love, Damini he has conquered the world. But how much of his creative soul does he have left?
Arts, Culture and Sport Athletics: Kenyans are running for other countries, but that’s not why medals are fewer
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 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.