By Kenneth Matimaire – ZIMBABWE – Zimbabwe’s leading entertainment powerhouse – C&A Entertainment – is once again set to host another famous Jamaican dancehall act, Movado on December 16 this year. C&A Entertainment boss, Clint Robinson had earlier on indirectly confirmed the show to Shout-Africa saying, “We have another Jamaican big star coming in. I promise you, it’s going to be massive. I cannot reveal the name at the moment. We will reveal the details shortly.” The revelations were then made by Godfatha Templeman – a local prominent reggae-dancehall fireman on behalf of C&A Entertainment. He broke the news during... Continue Reading
By Shout-Africa Correspondent Chinyere Ogbonna – The General Secretary of the Performing Musician Association of Nigeria Mr. Idowu Blessing Akinnehin has died. The General Secretary of the Performing Musician Association of Nigeria Mr. Idowu Blessing Akinnehin Report says he slumped at the premises Igbosere Magistrate’s Court yesterday and was confirmed dead at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, LASUTH, Ikeja,Lagos, southwestNigeria. He was one of the defendants in a case brought to Court 3, Igbosere Magistrate’s Court by the Special Fraud Unit (SFU). Former PMAN president Admiral Dele Abiodun and Champion Kunle Opio are also co-defendants. They were all in... Continue Reading
By Alfred Tembo – GWERU- A sensational voice sweeps through the quite floors of the library. “The little’s boy’s tears dripped down his cheeks at a snail’s pace. Little Thomas, quickly paced towards the wide open door…” the reader’s voice expressed confidence and compassion as l followed through her words. That was for me, my first encounter with a poetess in a literary starved and central town of Zimbabwe. It was during a children’s weekly public reading at Gweru Memorial Library, when l met Primrose Fadzai Mahlatini participating a reading session as a guest reader. A child of an educator... Continue Reading
Former Katikkiro of Buganda Joseph Mulwanyamuli Ssemwogerere has called upon Baganda living in the Diaspora to support all the Kingdom’s initiated projects back at home in Uganda. This was speaking during a ceremony organized by a United Kingdom based organization, Obuganda Obwanamaddala late last week in remembrance of the late Bernard Kibuuka Musoke. The Late Kibuuka was one of the founder members of the Uganda Freedom Fighter together with Prof. Yusuf Lule, Dr Andrew Kayira Lutakome, Balaki Kiira, and Dr Peter Senabulya among others. He was recently recognized as one of Uganda’s heroes. Kibuuka passed away in August this year... Continue Reading
By Shout-Africa Cameroon correspondent – A four-day regional workshop, attended by 77 agricultural researchers, to plan the launch kicked off in the economic capital yesterday. Experts from the West and Central African Council for Agricultural Research and Development started planning the official launch of three competitive projects. The projects are those validated by stakeholders in the region and fall within two of the eight CORAF/WECARD programmes, namely; livestock, fisheries and aquaculture and natural resources. During its regular session held last May in N’Djamena, Chad, the CORAF/WECARD Governing Board approved funding of the three proposals. The objective of the workshop is to... Continue Reading
