Dar Es Salaam What's on
Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF)
The annual Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF), the Festival of Dhow Countries, is the largest East African film and arts festival, which gathers together filmmakers from all around the globe....
Dar Es Salaam What's on
The Fashion Week Zanzibar is a new initiative to celebrate fashion, created in or inspired by Zanzibar, organized in conjunction with the Zanzibar International Film Festival Week. There are a series...
Addis Ababa What's on
Goethe Institut projects the humorous comedy Almanya, which tells the story of the 1.000.001st Turkish immigrant worker, Hueseyin, who emigrated to Germany, as well as that of his children and grandch...
Cape Town What's on
Exhibition by Jabulani Dhlamini
This solo exhibition by the Johannesburg-based photographer Jabulani Dhlamini, entitled UMama, displays a selection of intimate portraits of single mothers and their homes, which pay tribute to women...
Cape Town What's on
Pattern Language by Rodan Kane Hart
This exhibition entitled Pattern Language, displays a series of new steel sculptures, sculptural inlays and installations by Rodan Kane Hart. In his works Hart explores experiential structures and scu...
Cape Town What's on
R-A-T: An Associative Ordering
This exhibition uses the Rattus Norvegicus, the common brown rat, as a mean to explore the representation of species within natural history museums. It places rats around the exhibitory space in a va...
Nairobi What's on
This community-based annual film festival returns to Kibera and Mathare, Nairobi’s biggest slums, for its third edition. The programme includes a rich calendar of outdoor screenings of slum sto...
Nairobi What's on
What future for democracy in Somaliland?
This public discussion focuses on the future of democracy in Somaliland, which has worked since its independence in 1961 to create a multi-party democracy. The result has been a complex asset of polit...
Nairobi What's on
This exhibition, entitled Kanga Stories, The Cloth that Reveals, focuses on the Kanga cloth, a colourful printed cotton fabric, worn mainly by women in central and eastern Africa. Kanga and which in o...
Nairobi What's on
The screening of the movie Berlin Calling by Hannes Stöhr marks the inauguration of Ten Cities, a series of screenings of feature films and documentaries by musicians and writers. It focuses on v...
Nairobi What's on
Uirapuru by Iván Navarro & Courtney Smith
This exhibition, entitled Uirapuru, features a series of short videos by the Brooklyn based sculptors Iván Navarro and Courtney Smith. On screen are five short videos, which refer to the traje...
Accra What's on
For the series Writers’ Project, this reading is held by the Ghanaian writer, poet and academic Dr. Mawuli Adjei, who reads some extracts from his novel Taboo. Adjei is also a British Chevening...
Accra What's on
This event takes place within the Ghana Voices Series and consists of a monthly book reading, dedicated to the novel Circles by the Ghanaian writer and organizational psychologist and consultant Boaky...
Accra What's on
Art Installation by Gideon Appah
This large-scale art installation, which combines a video with some sculptural pieces, was created by Gideon Appah and entirely covers the horizontal walls and the interior ceilings of Goethe-Institut...
Addis Ababa What's on
Tribute to the Smiles of African Mothers
This exhibition, entitled Smiles of African Mothers, features a series of photographs by some photographers of Magnum, commissioned by the Italian Committee for the Medical Collaboration, a non-profit...
Addis Ababa What's on
Right Here: Addis Ababa Biographical Map
This multicultural event consists of a video and map presentation by the Italian photographer, architect and artist Anna Positano, which relates places and memories. It mixes biography and geography t...
Addis Ababa What's on
Addis Modern: Rediscovering the 1960s Architecture of Africa’s Capital City
This exhibition, entitled Addis Modern, documents modern architecture in Addis Ababa when the Ethiopian capital became the seat of the African Union. The exhibition focuses on series of buildings with...
Cairo What's on
Veiled Reality by Souad Mardam Bey
This exhibition, entitled Veiled Reality, consists of a mostly monochromatic series of large-scale portraits by the Cairo-based, Syrian artist Souad Mardam Bey. Bey reflects on the contemporary socio-...
Cape Town What's on
Various emerging and established South African artists have come together for this exhibition, entitled Changing Faces. On display are a series of portraits, which reflect on the changes in the portra...
Cape Town What's on
Promise, a Contemporary Art Exhibition
This contemporary art exhibition, entitled Promise, displays a series of artworks by Raél Jero Salley, which are kept in South Africa’s visual archive. The exhibition commemorates and cel...
