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Music producer and psalmist, Brandon Hammond is set to release another astounding music album. A Christmas CD featuring twelve time-honoured carols rearranged in completely different versions. (AllAfrica)

Jokes from MCs and Pablo livened up the humid day as Soul 5 took the jingle crown. (AllAfrica)

The heat is on in the Miss Rwanda beauty contest. (AllAfrica)

AFTER serving as National Arts Council of Zimbabwe acting director for a year, Elvas Mari has been confirmed as the substantive director of the council with effect from November 1. He takes over from Titus Chipangura who resigned from the council last year. (AllAfrica)

DESPITE the twist and turns that rhumba music has gone through locally for the past two decades, one group should be credited for standing firm. (AllAfrica)

CHRISTOPHER Mlalazi's recent achievement of getting a special mention at the Noma Awards for his first book Dancing with Life: Tales from the Township has shown the great potential in the talented writer. Noma Awards recognise outstanding books from Africa and select the best four out of hundreds of entries from various publishers on the continent. (AllAfrica)

The 2010 Windhoek International Film Festival will be hosted in September. This new festival date is part of the revamping and restructuring that the Wild Cinema Film Festival Trust (WCFF Trust) has carried out. (AllAfrica)

Young artist, Isabel Katjavivi, has received good reviews on her first solo exhibition, which consists of a number of works paying homage to the nude form. (AllAfrica)

Pencil Portrait Artist, Vaico Haimbenge, has the natural ability to produce images on paper with a pen or pencil. He elegantly creates portraits from photographs and observation. (AllAfrica)

It's official. Both sad and surprising, Namibia's gorgeous, young and leggy beauties Jasmine Rose Goagoses and Magneam Yetheni Kwechi, are back from this year's Face of Africa boot camp and thus also eliminated from the competition. (AllAfrica)

'Tuhafeni' meaning "let's rejoice" is the title of the Losted Son's debut album. (AllAfrica)

Fans who missed the launch of the Ongoronomundu Concert Group's DVD at the end of October have by no means lost out completely. (AllAfrica)

THE BATTLE for dendera music supremacy is likely to heat up following the rise of talented musician, Joe 'Local' Nyamungoma. The new dendera musician is rocking the airwaves with a song titled Madriver, which is popularly known as Christmas Yatosvika. (AllAfrica)

MISS World organisers have snubbed Zimbabwe Tourism Authority's invitation to have the pageant contestants visit Zimbabwe today. The 112 models from across the globe -- including our own Vanessa Sibanda -- are camped in South Africa ahead of the Miss World finals slated for December 12 in Johannesburg. (AllAfrica)

A SEVEN-year sojourn in a foreign land inspired a breathtaking work of art. Legal practitioner Cleopatra Magwaro who returned home from her studies in Australia a few years ago has published a book titled A Season's Assemblage. (AllAfrica)

"This platform will not only provide our youth with the much-needed international exposure, but also serves as a platform for education, learning and networking. (AllAfrica)

The now legendary Mascato choir was established in 1996 and was initially known as the Coastal Youth Choir. It changed to its present name in 1998 when they took part in an international choir competition in Pretoria and were recognized by the Mascato Fish company. (AllAfrica)

MUSIC stopped when Katutura's famous Eveline Street, starting at the end of Independence Avenue and leading to Goreangab Dam, joined the rest of Namibia to stream to the polling stations on Friday morning as drinking, partying, jollity, music and dancing made way for voting. (AllAfrica)

EDDIE, as Head of House, was last night set to make the last save and switch of this Big Brother season! (AllAfrica)

JAMAICAN star Beenie Man is coming to Kampala next weekend, but his influence has been in Uganda for years, inspiring Jose Chameleone and Bobi Wine. (AllAfrica)

IN 2006, sax wizard Isaiah Katumwa held his first jazz gig in Uganda. It was a surprise appearance at a relative's wedding at which Katumwa had personally requested to perform, free of charge. (AllAfrica)

WHEN I heard that there was an Afro-Jazz band playing at The Lawns, I thought I would be hearing something like Oliver Mtukudzi or Miria Makeba. I was in for a surprise. Their sound can almost be compared to Lira or Zamajobe, with fewer vocals. (AllAfrica)

IT felt like it would never end. With the 25 contestants that the M-Net reality show featured this season, I thought it would take forever to see the last man standing leave the Big Brother Revolution sh400m richer. (AllAfrica)

ON Saturday, Gulu town was awash with excitement as seven people became lucky winners of sh1m each in the on--going Zain promotion of the upcoming R-Kelly concert. (AllAfrica)

The African Art and Culture Development Company Limited (AACD) at Osu in Accra, has opened its 4th African Gift Fair showcasing 24,000 different types of exotic and modern African artefacts. (AllAfrica)

FATE dealt music fans a cruel blow with the 1989 death of Franco Luambo Makiadi. He was one of the pace-setters of African jazz. In continuation to last week's feature on the life and times of Franco, Francis Batte explores the music that made the King of Rumba peerless in Africa and beyond (AllAfrica)

The 4th Kenya International Film Festival held in October was an impossibly ambitious and imaginative project. (AllAfrica)

The biggest gospel musical concert in the world 'The Experience', an Interdenominational gospel concert that features some of the best known musical talents in the world is around the corner and everybody is already catching the frenzy. The date for this year's event is December 4th, 2009. (AllAfrica)

Busta Rhymes and Ludacris, the two international artistes featuring in the upcoming Star Mega Jam 2009, have promised music lovers in Nigeria the best performances ever witnessed at a live music concert. According to them, featuring in Star Mega Jam, Nigeria's most exciting and enduring music concert which draws a multitude of music fans would give them the much cherished opportunity to reach out to a large number of their fans in Nigeria. (AllAfrica)

The appointment of Chief Segun Osoba, as the Managing Director of Daily Times, in 1984 consolidated the reputation of the paper as the largest newspaper in Africa. He left the position to join partisan politics which led to his election as the Governor of Ogun State. (AllAfrica)

Hostilities, intrigues and drama as celebrity artistes don their dancing shoes in the race to determine the best celebrity dancer in this year Celebrity Takes 2 reality show. (AllAfrica)

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