Music In Africa Conference for Collaborations, Exchange and Showcases (ACCES) is a pan-African event for music industry players to exchange ideas, discover new talent and create business linkages. This year’s keynote speaker is Kenyan musician Eric Wainaina.
The Ake Arts and Book Festival has been rated as the best literary festival on the continent. Held in Lagos this year, guests came from as far as Greece. The festival has established itself as an ideal space for Africans to discuss issues they’d otherwise not be safe to discuss elsewhere.
The Lagos International Poetry Festival will be held in Freedom Park, Lagos Island on the 31st of October to the 4th of November 2018. This year’s edition “examines the growing importance of vigilance in a post-truth era with the theme, Wide Awake.”
Nigerian author Teju Cole recently spoke about his work in a reading at Jazzhole, a bookshop in Lagos. Cole read an essay from Granta Magazine and took questions on his books Everyday Is For The Thief, Open City, Strange and Known Things: Essay, and Blind Spot.
Cameroon based publication, Bakwa Magazine launched its podcast channel BakwaCast, which focusses on art, literature, and technology. BakwaCast has been described as a conversational, intimate and introspective podcast.
Philip Tabane was unlike any other musician. His music was intimately woven into his cosmology and spirituality.
Explorations of form and sound in jazz are essentially political. They challenge the status quo in society by interrogating categories and barriers.
The Nairobi Film Festival is all about Africans sharing African stories of all genres with an audience hungry to watch more content from the continent by creatives that defy the stereotypes of Africa’s portrayal to and by the world.
Kunle Afolayan was one of a few directors to lead Nollywood into its present phase. Why, with three films funded by Africa Magic, is he taking the industry back to the past?
Nigerian businessman and impresario Paul Okoye organised one of the most impressive showcase of African and Afrobeats talent in the inaugural One Africa Music Fest at the Barclays Center Arena in Brooklyn, New York City.
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