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Arts, Culture and Sport
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.
Arts, Culture and Sport “There are still literary islands in Africa” – Interview with Mozambican writers and curators David Bene and Mélio Tinga
OitentaNoventa is facilitating monthly conversations between writers born in the 1980s and 1990s with writers and industry actors they look up to from older generations. Founders and award-winning writers David Bene and Mélio Tinga share their progress with This Is Africa’s Onai Mushava.
Arts, Culture and Sport ‘Love, Damini,’ Burna Boy’s latest album is the highest charting Nigerian album in history
African Giant Burna Boy is topping international charts with his latest album. The personal letter to his fans inspired by his life, is a fusion of sound, featuring popular musicians. The project has expectedly catapulted him and ‘Afrobeat’ to new heights.
Arts, Culture and Sport Cricket Cranes: Story of Uganda’s century-old cricket team
The game of cricket in Uganda has been played for a long time, and the national team made its international debut 108 years ago. Many years on, the sport in the East African country, and the national side itself, are still both climbing up the ladder of world cricket. Notable progress has been made over the past few decades. Uganda Cricket Association’s spokesman speaks to us about these strides, and the vision for cricket in the country.
Arts, Culture and Sport In conversation with Carl Terver: Kelvin Kellman on his poetry, politics, and art
Carl Terver spoke with the poet and writer Kelvin Kellman who recently concluded a residency as a James Currey fellow in Oxford University.
Arts, Culture and Sport Morocco vs South Africa as women’s football enters a new era
The Wafcon final on Saturday is proof of the development of the women’s game on the continent – and of mining star players abroad.