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Nairobi News

Kenya's Wangechi Mutu wins Deutsche Bank award

Culture 22 Mar, 2010

Kenyan contemporary artist Wangechi Mutu has won the 2010 Artist of the Year award assigned by the Deutsche Bank Global Art Advisory Council for the first time this year. Her work is on show at the...

Cape Town News

IZIKO visits on human rights day

Culture 17 Mar, 2010

21 March is Human Rights Day in South Africa, when the country remembers the day in 1960 when anti-apartheid demonstrators in Sharpeville near Johannesburg were gunned down by police. The national her...

Addis Ababa News

Chinese language institute opens in Addis Ababa

Culture 07 Mar, 2010

Ethiopian and Chinese officials have inaugurated a new Chinese language and cultural centre on the premises of the Ethio-China Polytechnic College in Kotebe in Yeka district in Addis Ababa. About 2...

Nairobi News

New restaurant at Nairobi GoDown

Culture 07 Mar, 2010

A new restaurant has opened at the GoDown arts centre on Dunga Road. The Manna opened to the public on 1 March and serves breakfast, traditional dishes, daily specials and sandwiches. Located in a...

Cairo News

Amenhotep III’s head discovered in Egypt

Culture 01 Mar, 2010

A team of Egyptian and European archaeologists has found a massive red granite head of Amenhotep III, who ruled Egypt nearly 3,400 years ago. The sculpture is part of a bigger statue of the pharaoh, m...

Nairobi News

Safaricom promotes contemporary Kenyan artists

Culture 21 Feb, 2010

Safaricom is opening an exhibition space for the visual arts on the ground floor of its new extension at Safaricom House in Westlands. The space is to be available for local contemporary artists and i...

Cairo News

King Tutankhamun death mystery solved?

Culture 18 Feb, 2010

The boy-king Tutankhamun may have died from malaria according to the results of new scientific research carried out using DNA tests and CT scans. Speculation has surrounded the death of the young...

Cape Town News

Athol Fugard theatre opens in Cape Town

Culture 15 Feb, 2010

The Fugard Theatre has opened in Cape Town

Cape Town News

South African National Gallery closes for repairs

Culture 15 Feb, 2010

The Iziko South African National Gallery (ISANG) will be closed to the public from 1 March-14 April for maintenance and repairs. The works have been decided in view of the 2010 football World Cup in...

Lagos News

Lagos to protect cultural sites

Culture 23 Jan, 2010

This Day online reports that a bill is to be put in place in the Lagos metropolitan area and state to halt the demolition of culturally significant sites. Deputy chief whip of the Lagos State Hous...

Cairo News

Stolen antiquities conference in Cairo

Culture 06 Jan, 2010

Egypt is to host a conference on the return of antiquities in Cairo in the spring. It is estimated that about 30 countries, including Greece, Mexico, Peru, Afghanistan, Iraq, Cambodia and China, will...

Cairo News

Egyptian tombs reveal new discoveries

Culture 05 Jan, 2010

The discovery of two tombs at the Sakkara necropolis site south of Cairo could reveal new information about the burial and religious rites of ordinary Egyptians, rather than of royalty according to Eg...

Nairobi News

Phoenix Players close

Culture 22 Dec, 2009

The Nairobi-based semi-professional theatre company Phoenix Players has closed to the public due to problems with rent at its performance venue at the Professional Centre in Parliament Road. The compa...

Nairobi News

All Africa Dance Festival in Nairobi

Culture 30 Nov, 2009

From 9-13 December the Kenyatta International Conference Centre in Nairobi hosts the All Africa Dance Conference and Festival on Peace. Over 1,000

Accra News

African craft fair in Accra

Culture 30 Nov, 2009

Over 20 artists and artisans from all over Ghana are displaying their work at the fourth African Gift Fair organised by the African Art and Culture Development Company Ltd at Osu in Accra. The ten...

Lagos News

French institutions in Lagos celebrate 50 years.

Culture 03 Nov, 2009

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Cairo News

Hungry Caterpillar published in Arabic braille

Culture 13 Oct, 2009

Eric Carle

Cape Town News

Cape jazz legend Winston Monwabisi Ngozi dies

Culture 13 Oct, 2009

Veteran jazz musician Winston Monwabisi

Maputo News

Mozambique wins Manhattan film award

Culture 13 Oct, 2009

Alcides Soares, aged 16, has won the best documentary award at the annual Manhattan Short film festival for his film Mozambique about AIDS orphans in the country. In his film Soares tells his own s...

Cairo News

Culture minister Hosny fails in UNESCO bid

Culture 23 Sep, 2009

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