Africa is celebrating its largest film festival, Fespaco, which has just hit the 50th milestone. The biennial will kick off on Saturday with an opening ceremony at Ouagadougou’s municipal stadium and up to 160 films from across the African continent will be screened over the next week with 20 movies competing for the prestigious l’Étalon d’or de Yennenga prize, the
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Computers are making inroads in the music industry, capable of producing songs — and convincingly so — as illustrated at the South by Southwest festival in Texas. Already, an album featuring eight tracks has been produced entirely with artificial intelligence, an unprecedented feat. “I Am AI” was released last fall by YouTube star Taryn Southern, who doesn’t know how to
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Immaculate Nantongo is an entrepreneur behind a number of trending businesses. She is the brain behind the `Fabulous Home Festival’ and ‘My Fabulous Home’ community on Facebook. She also owns the Flawless Skin Care products brand and co-owns Pizza King; a fast foods place with pizza as its flagship serving. “I have actually sold so many other things and when
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Two locks of hair in the British museum taken from the head of the 19th-century widely revered Ethiopian Emperor Tewodros II some 150 years ago has become a subject of repatriation as the museum has agreed to return them. According to history, Tewodros chose to kill himself rather than give himself up to the British after the capture in 1868
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In the wake of Jussie Smollett‘s arrest, his character “Jamal” has now been dropped from the last two episodes of the current season of TV show Empire. A statement jointly released Friday by the executive producers of the show, Lee Daniels, Danny Strong, Brett Mahoney, Brian Gazer, Sanaa Hamri, Francie Calfo and Dennis Hammer confirmed the decision to remove the
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The British Black Panther Party, founded by Darcus Howe, Linton Kwesi Johnson and Olive Morris was operationally different from the African-American version of the movement. The British Black Panther Party was founded basically to educate British black people about their history.and to challenge police brutality against black communities. Created during the peak of the revolutionary African American Black Panther Party,
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After missing out on the Grammy awards for three decades, multiple award-winning South African music group, the Soweto Gospel Choir, carted home the revered Grammy Awards for the Best World Music Album category for their album titled ‘Freedom’ which is a collection of popular African freedom/liberation songs and chants. The group won the award for third time after being nominated
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Gani Taiwo is a 41-year-old artist and social activist with a commendable project of brushing up the Ijora Badia slum in the city of Lagos, Nigeria with the colourful murals he paints on the slum’s new public toilets. This according the artist will potentially improve the settlement’s profile and raise the spirits of its residents. Gani Taiwo is a volunteer
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The Museum of the African Circle – Congo’s artists have been handed a lifeline as the government has opened a museum essentially to promote the works of local artists. The exhibition at the The Museum of the African Circle, as it is called, in Pointe-Noire,Congo, is targeted at young African artists. Samuel Mabanza, curator of the museum and a director
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It must be stunning to learn that about 95 per cent of Africa’s cultural heritage are domiciled outside the continent. Consequently, a report calling for a change in heritage law has been put up by Senegalese economist Felwine Sarr and French historian Bénédicte Savoy. The report which is intended to see thousands of African artworks, currently housed in French museums,
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