African and Caribbean Arts and Culture

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Congolese musician Nguza Mbangu 'Viking' and his three sons have advanced 15 reasons why the Court of Appeal should set them free after they were sentenced to life imprisonment in 2004. (AllAfrica)

After a successful hosting of one of the greatest photo exhibitions of the year tagged "Perspectives on Contemporary Nigerian Photography recently, the Ben Enwonwu Foundation (BEF) owners of Omenka Art Gallery again in its bid towards the promotion and appreciation of Modern African art penultimate week brought the visual art community together for another exciting exhibition by one of Nigeria's outstanding contemporary artists, Alex Nwokolo titled Musing: an exhibition of recent paintings by Alex Nwokolo. (AllAfrica)

National Orientation Agency presented a book, Survey of Nigerian Core Values to the Nigerian public recently. At the presentation, the custodians of Nigerian cultural values stressed the need for active engagement of all citizens in value re-orientation as a key to national development. (AllAfrica)

The world's most prestigious film academy, the New York Film Academy, is to open its institute in Nigeria in February, 2010, as part of the its drive to train Nollywood actors and actresses for optimal competition in the international arena. (AllAfrica)

The hit television programme; "Big Brother Africa Revolution" and African private sector companies are supporting the Global Fund's fight against malaria by contributing funds from a high-profile awareness raising campaign, undertaken as part of the United Against Malaria campaign. (AllAfrica)

EISH my Big Brother peoples, the show is quickly drawing to a close, with the last nominations taking place this past Monday evening. (AllAfrica)

THIS season of Big Brother Africa is getting involved in the fight against malaria in Africa. As part of this week's task, housemates are getting to the nitty-gritty of Africa's biggest challenges. (AllAfrica)

Have you given up on getting Kevin evicted yet? I mean that bulky, 'wana-be-superstar' representing Nigeria in the on-going Big Brother Revolution. Well, if you haven't, it's time you did, seeing as it is that he is definitely going to make it to the finals. For some reason, this load has managed to fool all and sundry that he's cool, the reason viewers have kept him on the M-Net reality show. (AllAfrica)

AFTER Oskido's show flopped last weekend, kwaito fans were left wondering if ever there was going to be another jam of a gig lined up this festive season. (AllAfrica)

HE enters The Arena posthumously. And he does so because he was a gifted artiste whose immense talent was not only a blessing for Zimbabwe, but also left a lasting legacy. (AllAfrica)

Elvas Mari has been appointed director of the National Arts Council of Zimbabwe with effect from November 2, 2009. (AllAfrica)

Heavy rains that have started across the country will not take the thrill out of sungura music ace Alick Macheso's gig at Pamuzinda Highway X-scape tomorrow. (AllAfrica)

Is it the world against Vusi and vise versa? Just when everybody was starting to hope that Vusi Mtokufa's problems would fade away, comes another conflict between him and his manager-producer Reuben Lekoeje. (AllAfrica)

"Breeze from Tunisia" (Brises tunisiennes) is the title of Syrine Ben Moussa's forthcoming show which the Tunisian singer will give on December 5, at the Arab World Institute in Paris. (AllAfrica)

Vice President of Visual Art Association of Nigeria (VATAN), Prince Adeyemi Kosoko has decried the attitude of state governments towards the provision of visual materials to secondary and primary schools in the country. (AllAfrica)

In Africa, names by which a person is addressed or by which a town is known have deeper meaning than they look on the surface. In a number of cases, names given to an African child are either due to circumstances of his or her birth, the economic, social or political status of the parent or happenings during the birth of the child. (AllAfrica)

This week we have three housemates up for possible eviction come Sunday. Initially, housemates had nominated Zimbabwe's Itai, Malawi's Mzamo and Angola's Emma. But Namibia's Edward, who is head of house this week, saved Mzamo, replacing her with Nigeria's Kevin, making the final list have Itai, Emma and Kevin. (AllAfrica)

THE International Images for Women Festival opened last Friday with Reliable System, the highlight of the evening. (AllAfrica)

IN 1989 Germans woke up in the morning to find a wall that was dividing the West and the east demolished. (AllAfrica)

A group of four German hip hop artists, on Monday night rocked their Kigali fans at Goethe-Institute, Social Recreational Centre (CSR), Kacyiru. (AllAfrica)

The Director General of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC), Mr. William Ampem- Darko, has promised the people of the Volta Region, to enhance broadcast activities of both radio and television to all parts of the region, and expressed regret that the Volta Star Radio (VSR), which had wider coverage to other regions, was currently not being received by people in some parts of the region. (AllAfrica)

One down, two to go. Geraldine Iheme became the first Nigerian to be evicted the cutting the number of Nigerians in the house to just two; Kevin and Nkenna. (AllAfrica)

Amakhosi Theatre Company will on Wednesday return with another hard-hitting play on the performance of the unity government. (AllAfrica)

YET another one bites the dust. A seemingly surprised, emotional Geraldine left the BBA house on Sunday night. Remember her? While in the house, she was the reserved girl who never had much to say. (AllAfrica)

An American country music group, The Trio will be holding several concerts in the country to promote the American culture. (AllAfrica)

Vanessa Sibanda, Zimbabwe's entrant for the Miss World contest has made it into the top 44 of the Miss Beach Beauty-Bikini, a show that is run in the build up to the Miss World pageant. (AllAfrica)

SOUNDS of the Muddy Face frontman Cephas "Motomuzhinji" Mashakada is appealing for assistance to secure a new artificial leg. (AllAfrica)

NOT so many local artistes can speak of their work with as much authority as award-winning filmmaker, Rumbi Katedza. (AllAfrica)

DINO Mudondo's fans were left wondering if he learnt any lesson from his disastrous affair with Cecilia Dapeta after he made a "move" on another "sugar mummy" during a live performance last weekend. (AllAfrica)

Dance stars Vee and Slizer picked the theme of passion in their first collaboration work released last week, but Vee has claimed playing lovers would not rub his love of many years, Kagiso, the wrong way. (AllAfrica)

For East Africans it's the kanga, saris for Indians and kimono for the Japanese, and here, in Botswana the German print - widely known as leteisi in the vernacular - is the fabric material that has a space in almost every woman's wardrobe. (AllAfrica)

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