Topic: Culture

By Novell Zwange JOHANNESBURG - Catch Ayanda Live as the idols songstress' performs at her 2010 finale concert on Wednesday, December 22 at the Bassline in Newtown.

Zwa Celeb Focus *Celeb Focus* is a column for African celebrities to tell their fans a bit more about their work, releases, events and updates. If you’d like to take part email us on zwange@shout-africa.com. This week we interview exciting, enterprising, dynamic creative genius, musician par excellence and Zimbabwe’s invaluable cultural ambassador JEYS MARABINI of Kozekulunge. Jeys has steadily but surely risen to become a force to reckon with not only in Zimbabwe but Africa and worldover.(pictured,  below): Jeys welcome to Shout-Africa ? Thank you. What have you been up to recently? Busy with shows and doing workshops and charity... Continue Reading

By John Owoo – ACCRA – An exhibition of recent works by nine painters from Ghana and Nigeria will on Thursday November 25 open at the CFAO Motors showroom, located at the Airport City in Accra. Participating artists are Duke Asidere, Amarkine Amarteifio, Nicholas Kowalski, Ayoola Gbolahan, Augustine Gokah, George Edozie, Eric Aniagyei, Babalola Dare Lawson and Okezie Okafor. Edozie’s works for example possess a kind of patch work quality while his simplified two dimensional figures and abstract pieces appear as overlapping blocks of bright colours – indeed of heavy impasto – plain or with gradations intone. Gbolahan’s paintings explore... Continue Reading

By Florence Mukanga – This morning on my way to work, I had an opportunity to listen to one guy who was preaching to people on the train which was transporting us to our different destinations. He was so serious in his preaching, telling people how the wicked will perish in hell. Going on with his preaching he started advising people to check the signs of the last days… ‘people are fighting each other across the world’, he said.  What interested and at the same time disturbed me the most was the point when the guy mentioned that it is... Continue Reading

By Own Correspondent – Poignant images captured by photographers from the 1950s through to the present relate South Africa’s story of a divided land and people, and their metamorphosis into a modern, tolerant and united nation. After touring Germany, the exhibit opens in Johannesburg on October 3. Representing a nation that also suffered from division and is today reunified, German Ambassador to South Africa Dieter Haller will officially open the exhibit “South African Photography 1950-2010: Apartheid – Struggle – Freedom”. Significantly, the opening takes place on the day of German Unity, when exactly 20 years ago, two German nations became... Continue Reading