Nuruddin Farah interview at the Commonwealth Club of California, 2007. Heralded as “one of the finest contemporary African novelists” by Salman Rushdie, Nuruddin Farah is a contender for the Nobel Prize in literature for his beautiful and moving stories dealing with women’s liberation and government corruption in his native Somalia. Much of his work has been influenced ...
For all it cost. For all we’ve lost. For all who persisted, decade upon decade, in the face of every defeat. For the invisible heroes of four generations, who brought it to fruition. For those taken by the struggle, whose spirits we carry with us. For those who laboured for this and did not live to ...
“Abdoulaye TRAORE is a very talented guitarist who made Burkina Faso his source of wealth”, as written on a mail sent to our newsroom. Traore is experimenting with many styles from touareg music to peule, wassoulou, blues, flamenco, slam… both with electric and acoustic guitars. Abdoulaye TRAORE will take the stage this Thursday 26 August by 20.30 ...
With “VOGUE NOT FOR AFRICA” blogger DULCE CAMER… posts his opinion on the opportunity to have an African edition of the famous fashion magazine. This is his post. Hello people so what’s good? Just wanted to update you on some news that has been circulating around our virtual world. I may be the last of the bloggers ...
Africanews editor, Piervincenzo Canale, interviewed Zanzibar Film Festival director, Martin Mhando, on 19 July 2010 just one day after the end of the 2010 edition of this African film festival. Wikio Wikio ...
The Zanzibar International Film Festival has started this Monday 12 July and it is taking place both on islands and on mainland Tanzania. Today the list includes “incredible films showing all day in the House of Wonders, Africa House, Palace Museum and of course the Old Fort Amphitheatre”. It’s Ousmane Sembene day today, so head over ...
A l’Occasion de leur passage sur Paris, Le Rêve Africain programme Ej von LYRIK au Festival “Nous sommes tous des Africains” (Paris). DÉCOUVERTES de l’AFRO PÉPITES SHOW 2de édition, dédié à la Musique d’Afrique AUSTRALE. Ej von LYRIK – Afrique du Sud – Funky Hip-Hop - Sa musique est un extraordinaire mélange de funk, rock, dance, hip ...
During the FIFA World Cup 2010, in the prestigious Le Cinque Lune Space, a few steps from Piazza Navona, starts the event entirely devoted to the immense capital and dazzling territory of Africa. A path through its resources almost unknown by western society and highlighting the spatial and cultural riches. The exhibition was curated by ...
Football Fables, a film by Baff Akoto, is now in theatres across the UK. ...
The Department of Arts and Culture has budgeted R186million for World Cup-related arts and culture projects countrywide. Minister Lulu Xingwana said in Pretoria yesterday that R59million had been used to fund 21 World Cup-related arts and culture projects, while R127million would be spent on 29 infrastructure development projects. She said the department had also earmarked ...
Journalist Ewanfoh Obehi Peter interviews Nigerian R&B singer Obehi ...
In this page all the photo made by Africanews to the conference and the jewels show in Rome the 20 of May 2010. The event was organised by IES, Italo Ethiopian Society. Elvira Pellizzari, Italo Ethiopian Society (IES) Victor E. Okeadu, member of Rome city council for the African comunities Ethiopian models Pellizzari sisters of Italo Ethiopian ...
Started on Sunday 16th, an army of cultural spectators is warming up the Lombardy province of Lodi and the objective is simple, taking the war of integration to a cultural front. Bid to last for two months, the intercultural event is been jointly organise by three libraries, eight associations and a church parish in Lodi. ...
These are the photos of the recent presentation in Sevilla (Spain) of the African film festival of Tarifa. Photo: Festival de Cine Africano de Tarifa on Facebook Wikio Wikio ...
Imagine l’Afrique is the name of the course for African photographers sponsored by Ifad, Canon and TNT. The target is professional photographers base in French speaking countries of West sub-saharan Africa interested in the topics of food security and climate change. Program and info on www.photo-formation-afrique.com (in French) Wikio Wikio ...
Is there a struggle over land in Africa? What are the conflicts, politics and challenges? The truth behind land struggles in Africa – experts shed light A new HSRC Press book interrogates land conflicts and their factors, and compares responses to internal crises across a range of countries drawn from all regions of Africa. Disputes over land are ...
The FESTIVAL DE CINE AFRICANO DE TARIFA (FCAT – Tarifa African Film Festival), one of the biggest African film festivals in Europe, is about to start its seventh edition on May 21st in Tarifa, the closest Spanish town to Africa on the Andalusian coasts of the Strait of Gibraltar (www.fcat.es). This year the FCAT presents, from ...
As artists, when were you born? We don’t have a fixed date because it is since our childhood that we practice art not as a job for the future or as a professional goal to attain. It is like growing up that each one of us two discovered his own talents and tried to develop them. ...
Comment et quand vous etes nés comme artistes? il faut dire que nous n’avions pas fais de fixation depuis l’enfance concernant la pratique de l’art comme unmétier pour l’avenir ou un objectif professionnel a atteindre,c’est en grandissant que chacun d’entre nous s’est découvert des talents et a chercher a les développer.déja nous n’avons pas grandi ensemble ...
Britain is not to blame for Kenya’s endemic culture of political corruption and sleaze. Yet its credentials are far from unblemished. This is one of the conclusions that British author and journalist Michela Wrong reaches in her latest book “Its our turn to eat: the story of a Kenyan whistleblower”. The West’s late twentieth century policy ...
Piervincenzo Canale interviewed Antonio Baiocco, director of film "Il mercante di stoffe" after the international award "Antonietta Labisi", Saturday 17 March in Catania (Italy) ...
These are the photos of the award received by Jacqueline Lohoues – Oble, presidential candidate in Ivory Coast. ...
Jacqueline Lohoues – Oble, presidential candidate in Ivory Coast, received yesterday night in Catania (Italy) the award “Antonietta Labisi”. Beside her collaborators, Lohoues – Oble said to Piervincenzo Canale of Africanews.it, that in case of victory: “I will bring peace in my country. Without peace there is no development”. Jacqueline Lohoues – Oble also said that ...
« NUITS D’AFRIQUE, des spectacles….TOUTE l’année! » présentent Samedi 17 et Dimanche 18 avril 2010 Voyage au cœur des musiques mystiques des Dunes du Sahara ! Montréal, le 6 avril 2010- Cette année, le Festival de Musique du Maghreb revient pour célébrer sa 19ème édition. A l’initiative des Productions Nuits d’Afrique, cet évènement nous transportera à nouveau dans ...
Lao Kouyate will play his Kora tomorrow in Turin (Italy) in "Taverna dei mercanti". ...
Former detainee in Robben Island (South Africa), Anthony Suez was interviewed during the recently ended African Film Festival in Milan (Italy) by reporter Ewanfoh Obehi Peter. "Soccer meant a way of life for the political prisoners on Robben Island", Suez said after the movie 'More than just a game'. ...
Photos by Africanews.it journalists: Araceli Sanz Rincon, Elena Morillo Gasco’ and Ewanfoh Obehi Peter For the entire photo album on Picasa, click here Wikio Wikio ...
In this interview, former political detainee in South Africa during the apartheid regime, Anthony Suze, stress why football was more than a game. The interview is followed by a report on the African film festival in Milan. ...
Dowaha/La berceuse, by Tunisian director Raja Amari, has won the 20th edition of the African film festival in Milan (Italy) as ‘best African film’. Although the festival has ended today, prize celebrations have been held yesterday, saturday 20 of March. Other winning movies are Un conte des faits, directed by Hichem Ben Ammar, selected as “best documentary”. Un ...
“More than just a game” is a movie about the story of Anthony Suez, political prisoner in Robben Island, during the apartheid regime in South Africa. Our journalists interviewed Suez today. The video interview will be published in the following days. For the trailer of the movie, click here Wikio Wikio ...
