Nigerian Afrobeat star Tiwa Savage is the first African artist to sign a global deal with Universal Music Group. This comes months after she was the first woman to win the MTV Europe Music Award for Best African Act.
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Arts, Culture and Sport Most beautiful African destinations
In commemoration of Earth Day 2019, CNN Travel compiled a list of the 25 most beautiful places in the world, which included Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Kenya’s Samburu National Reserve and Morocco’s Mount Toubkal. This is Africa explores other African places that make our list.
Arts, Culture and Sport Funding for the creative economy in East Africa
The creative sector can play a major role in boosting the African economy but greater transparency in the criteria of funding institutions like HEVA is needed.
Arts, Culture and Sport Selmor M’tukudzi: Zimbabwe’s very own “Bohemian Rhapsody” moment
Selmor M’tukudzi and her sister, Sandra, are keeping alive the legacy of their late, great father, Oliver M’tukudzi, while at the same time carving out their own niche in the music industry, says Andrew Chatora.
Arts, Culture and Sport How to be Oliver Mtukudzi
Oliver Mtukudzi is dead but the world has hardly begun to skim the surface of his greatness. In this tribute, Stan Mushava flips through the African superstar’s catalogue, looking at how conscientiousness, attachment to heritage and artistic integrity were not only central to the making of the legend but are also the universal mainstays of art.
Arts, Culture and Sport God as a Black woman: The Afro-Cuban painter who reimagined the depiction of God
Religious sensitivity has always been a difficult issue to navigate, even in the contemporary world. When it comes to the depiction of God, the whitewashing of the Almighty is not only historically false in the case of Jesus but creates an implicit cultural and historical bias in favour of one race.
Arts, Culture and Sport What Nigerian hip-hop lyrics have to say about the country’s Yahoo Boys
Hip-hop artists in Nigeria unpack the realities of the country’s cyber fraudsters.
Arts, Culture and Sport The extraordinary world of Kenyan poet and author Khadambi Asalache
Khadambi Asalache, poet and pioneer of modern English Kenyan literature, lived an extraordinary life. Now, more than a decade after his death, the public can view his stunning estate, which he left to the National British Trust. The estate is exceptional because for more than 20 years he decorated it extensively with Moorish-influenced fretwork which he cut by hand from discarded pine doors and wooden boxes.
Arts, Culture and Sport Lupita Nyong’o’s children’s book ‘Sulwe’ takes on colourism and teaches self-love
Award-winning Kenyan actress Lupita Nyong’o is adding the title of author to her growing résumé. The actress is set to release a children’s book that focuses on colourism, self-love and acceptance to help girls and boys find the inspiration to ‘walk with joy in their own skin’.