The First Swahili Literary Festival Theme: ‘Celebrating Achievement’ Swahilipot Hub, Mombasa County, Kenya March 1st – 3rd 2019 Save the date! For a long time, Swahili Cultural Heritage has been preserved and promoted through collaborative efforts between different art… Read More ›
Join the Africa Centre Summer Festival 2018 on Saturday 18th August 1pm in London! The Africa Centre Summer Festival brings together the best of African and diaspora culture onto the streets of London. It is the largest African festival in the… Read More ›
Africa in Dialogue is currently accepting submissions for its second issue. Seasoned and upcoming African interviewers, writers and critics are invited to submit original, unpublished dialogues with African Storytellers. Africa in Dialogue are interested in high quality, long-form, vibrant dialogues between… Read More ›
Southbank Centre, London presents Angélique Kidjo singing Talking Heads At Royal Festival Hall 8th June From 7.30pm Angélique Kidjo’s latest project, her reinterpretation of the Talking Heads classic album Remain in Light, showcases thrilling new arrangements of the iconic songs. The… Read More ›
Ons Klyntji, an independent magazine of literature, art, music, culture and design, published and launched every year in South Africa at the Oppikoppi music festival is looking for submissions “written or visual”. There is no set theme, but there… Read More ›
Focus Africa Music Festival 2018 Rich Mix, Main Space Bethnal Green, London Saturday 2nd June 7pm-1am After selling out last year, Focus Africa Music Festival is back to offer something totally different. Focus Africa Music Festival is one of the newest… Read More ›
The 44th Annual Meeting of the African Literature Association: “The Environments of African Literature” will commence in May, 23rd-26th, at Marriott Wardman Park in Washington, D.C. In calling attention to the Environments of African Literature, the 2018 African Literature Association… Read More ›
We are delighted to announce that the internationally acclaimed music and arts festival, Lake of Stars, is bringing its trademark cross-genre blend of artists and musical styles from the tropical shores of Lake Malawi to London and Glasgow this month…. Read More ›
AiW Guest: Tope Salaudeen-Adegoke Beautiful Nubia, the stage name for Segun Akinlolu, is widely acclaimed by music critics as Nigeria’s foremost contemporary folklorist. He is an artist with a vibrant soul who combines the Yoruba traditional percussion with other modern… Read More ›
AiW Guest: Kev Kelly This post originally appeared on Sign Records’ blog and is re-published with their permission. We love Sahel Sounds. Set up by the adventurous Christopher Kirkley, it started as a project to release interesting and rare music… Read More ›
AiW Guest: Ceri Whatley AiW Note: This is the final post in a series of four posts in which Ceri Whatley discusses Rwandan artist Eric 1Key’s album Entre 2, as well as presenting original translations of 1Key’s lyrics from Kiswahili and French to… Read More ›
AiW Guest: Ceri Whatley AiW Note: This is the third in a series of four posts in which Ceri Whatley discusses Rwandan artist Eric 1Key’s album Entre 2, as well as presenting original translations of 1Key’s lyrics from Kinyarwanda and French… Read More ›
AiW Guest: Ceri Whatley AiW Note: This is the second in a series of four posts in which Ceri Whatley discusses Rwandan artist Eric 1Key’s album Entre 2, as well as presenting original translations of 1Key’s lyrics from Kinyarwanda and French to English. We are… Read More ›
AiW Guest: Ceri Whatley AiW Note: This is the first in a series of four posts in which Ceri Whatley discusses Rwandan artist Eric 1Key’s album Entre 2, as well as presenting original translations of 1Key’s lyrics from Kinyarwanda and French to English. We… Read More ›
Bare Lit Festival: a literary festival focused entirely on writers of colour to highlight the amazing work being produced by Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic writers. This February a new festival is set to change the UK literary landscape: Bare… Read More ›
Joyful Noise presents: Funmi Olawumi Friday 10 April, 7pm Union Chapel, London Price: £17 / £15 concessions Nigerian singer Funmi Olawumi, the leader and founder of the Yoruba Women Choir, performs an intimate show with her band as she premiers… Read More ›
Future Sound of Mzansi – Film Screening 28 April 2015, 8pm Djam Lecture Theatre, SOAS dir. Nthato Mokgata & Lebogang Rasethaba, South Africa 2014, 1h38m Co-directed by performance artist and producer Spoek Mathambo, this documentary aims to explore, express, and… Read More ›
AiW guest: Tom Simmert In the end it’s all DJ Lunga’s fault. Without the feature about him and his label Baainar Records in the German magazine BEAT, I’d never (or at least much later) have thought about South African House… Read More ›
EFG London Jazz Festival Venues across London Friday 14th November – Sunday 23rd November The EFG London Jazz Festival, the capital’s biggest pan-city music festival, takes place from 14 – 23 November and is this year showcasing a particularly exciting… Read More ›
AiW Guest Lennon Chido Mhishi By the time the music has started playing, I am excited inside already. For a moment my mind is lost somewhere, and I only realise then that there was a solo on the piano, but… Read More ›
