African and Caribbean Arts and Culture

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Cape Town author Henrietta Rose-Innes has been nominated among a handful of Africa's most talented writers for the Caine Prize. (AllAfrica)

The second music show dubbed "Step Road Blue Show" will be held next Saturday in Lubango City, southern Huila Province, promoted by the company Step Produções, ANGOP has learnt. (AllAfrica)

Tunis , May 2008- From May 9 to 21, 2008 , six women artists will exhibit their works at the Sidi Bou Said Museum. All in all, a 100 works from Chantal Slim, Mouna Drissi Bouassida, Catherine Lemdani, Noudhar Mestiri Maherzi, Aicha Cherif and Raoudha Ben Mlouka Kochbati, will be on display at the Museum, a stone's throw from the famous "Café des nattes", where the majestic view on the Gulf of Tunis and its Mediterranean blue seas, have inspired many a painter. (AllAfrica)

A Tunisian-French conference on "Prospective Arts and Cultures," is due to be held on May 10-11, 2008 within the framework of the 15th national and international conferences on "Culture and development strategies in Tunisia ", at the charming Hammamet international cultural centre. (AllAfrica)

The City of Cape Town will on Thursday announce the winners of its 2010 Green Goal Mouille Point Student Landscape Design Competition. (AllAfrica)

LET me try for the umpteenth time to get this right. SABC CEO Dali Mpofu suspends head of news Snuki Zikalala; the SABC board suspends Mpofu for suspending Zikalala; and the African National Congress (ANC) in Parliament wants to suspend the SABC board. (AllAfrica)

THE crass philistinism of the 2008 MTN South African Music Awards (Sama) nominations was exceeded only by the crass predictability of both last weekend's event (overdressed MCs largely talking nonsense) and the winners. If there was an overall star, it was the highly marketable Freshlyground, whose Macheri won Album of the Year, Best Adult Contemporary English and Best Group. (AllAfrica)

SA's newest TV station, Cape Town TV (CTV), is planning to start broadcasting to the greater Cape Town area in August being awarded a one-year renewable community broadcast licence by the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa). (AllAfrica)

One of Rwanda's up coming musicians, James Nzibavuga, aka Rocks James is taking a slow and firm stand into his musical career. (AllAfrica)

AFTER the very successful run of Daves Guzha's play "The Two Leaders I Know" at HIFA over the past weekend, "The Two Leaders I Know" continues at Theatre in the Park from 14 May 2008 to 24 May 2008. The play will be performed during Theatre in the Park's new lunchtime slot at 13h00pm and the usual 17h30pm. There will be NO shows at 19h30pm during the winter season. (AllAfrica)

Kenyans will have the opportunity to showcase as well as indulge in delicacies from all corners of the country at a cuisine festival in Nairobi this weekend. (AllAfrica)

Elsie, a Daystar University communications graduate, joined the country's working class two years ago. Having acquired most of her household furnishings, the 27-year-old is ready to start investing in artworks; at least to brighten her living room and probably to sell them later when their prices rise. (AllAfrica)

Luanda provincial government is studying a way to institutionalise the International Festival of Theatre and Arts created by Elinga Teatro on Tuesday announced an official source. (AllAfrica)

The Angolan plastic artist Marcela Costa said Wednesday in Luanda that the lack of exposure of the weaving art in the country is due to the reduced number of artists in this field. (AllAfrica)

After a long wait, the RnB superstar, Akon is set to arrive in the country tomorrow night for the eagerly awaited show at the Lugogo cricket oval on Friday 9th May. (AllAfrica)

There is a television show that is aired on Saturday evenings that grabs my attention by its sheer strangeness. (AllAfrica)

Desré Buirski, the artist best known for designing Madiba's trademark presidential shirts, represented South Africa at the launch event of the iGoogle artist themes project in New York last week. Buirski was one of 60 artists from around the world to design her own theme for iGoogle. (AllAfrica)

THE air reverberated with his melodious voice filling the packed conference room. His music was used the world over as a rallying point for a return to peace in a country that had turned into a monster state baying for its own people's blood. (AllAfrica)

The biggest and more rewarding prizes ever in a talent hunt in the Ghana are set to be given out to winners when the new TV reality show, "SOUL SEARCH" hits the screens. The launch of "SOUL SEARCH" took place last Tuesday at the International Press Centre. (AllAfrica)

The Angolan musician Konde performs this Wednesday at Casa70 cultural centre, in Luanda, as his first appearance on the stage of this entertainment venue, which has had several renowned national and international artists on top of its bill. (AllAfrica)

CONCERNS about the waning interests of Nigerians in reading are not new. They have only increased as more people realise we are breeding an illiterate society where people parade certificates that they cannot read. (AllAfrica)

ON THE face of it, weekend reports that SABC management is actively seeking a replacement for the state broadcaster's influential head of news, Snuki Zikalala, are to be welcomed. (AllAfrica)

A group of youths from the Abu Bakar Sidique Mosque at Kissy, east of Freetown have won the highest prize offered at a peace singing competition organized by the Iranian Cultural Consulate on March 3. (AllAfrica)

As pay television channels flood the market, Botswana's oldest yet not widely accessed, Gaborone Broadcasting Company Television is reposition itself. The buy-in into GBC TV by South Africa's leading private television station, ETV, last year has seen a great number of changes at the station. One was the appointed of Paul Beyl as the station's General Manager. ZEPH KAJEVU pooped in at the station's headquarters in Broadhurst to check what's cooking. (AllAfrica)

Urban groover Edene Timbe showcased one of the poorest performances at the just-ended Harare International Festival of Arts. (AllAfrica)

Freshly Ground put up a fine finish to one of the sold-out concerts at the just-ended Harare International Festival of the Arts' Main Stage on Lion Larger Day. (AllAfrica)

A SHELL of an old Volkswagen has been sitting comfortably on the ground floor of the National Art Gallery of Zimbabwe a fortnight ago when preparations for Hifa 2008 started. (AllAfrica)

Federal Capital Territory fishing festival, originally schedule to hold between March and April, will now hold later in May. (AllAfrica)

Film industry has played a significant role in its contribution to the national economy through the provision of employment opportunities to hundred of thousands of Nigerian youth. This was disclosed in a goodwill message by the honourable minister of information and communications, Chief John O. Odey, at the official opening ceremony of the 4th edition of the biennial Zuma Film Festival 2008 at the Nicon Luxury Hotel Abuja on Sunday May 4, 2008. (AllAfrica)

Last week the Finnish Embassy donated an amount of N$463 000 for the upgrading of the tourist facilities at the Nakambale Ecological Tourist Camp in the north. (AllAfrica)

First Northern Nigerian Writers' Summit kicked off in Minna, Niger State, yesterday, with hundreds of writers in attendance. Official estimates put the number of delegates at about 400 Nigerians. (AllAfrica)

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