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Africa’s Harissa, Raï and Kalela Win UNESCO Heritage Status
Spicy harissa paste from Tunisia, Morocco’s raï music and Kalela dance from Zambia were selected on Thursday to…
African Artists Feature in Marvel’s ‘Wakanda Forever’ Soundtrack
Afrobeats and Amapiano to the world as Nigerian and Mzansi artists feature in the Soundtrack Album of Black…
Kenyan Novelist Bajaber Wins 2022 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction
Mombasa-born author Khadija Abdalla Bajaber’s novel, ‘The House of Rust’ has won the 2022 Ursula K. Le Guin…
Sri Lankan Writer Shehan Karunatilaka Wins Booker Prize 2022
In what Judges describe as a ‘rollercoaster journey through life and death’, Sri Lankan Writer Shehan Karunatilaka has…
NMAfA to Lease Seven Benin Bronzes From Nigeria
Nigeria will loan seven Benin Bronzes to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art (NMAfA) for the next…
Kenya’s Scholastica Moraa Wins 2022 Kendeka Prize for African Literature
Scholastica Moraa from Kenya has won the 2022 Kendeka Prize for African Literature announced September 24. Moraa’s short…
What Did ‘The Woman King’ Reveal About Agojie – Dahomey Amazons?
A smooth mixture of cinematic poise and cultural trajectory were on show in the epic but while it…
Disney’s Coming New Original ‘Iwaju’ Journeys Into an Afrofuturistic Lagos
Ugandan animator Hamid Ibrahim was probably biting the butt of his pen and smiling at the ingenuity of…
Zimbabwean Author Makes The Booker Prize Longlist
Glory, a novel inspired by the fall of strongman Robert Mugabe from power has been longlisted for The…
Five Egyptian Antiques Worth $3m Seized From Museum in New York
Five Egyptian antiques have been seized from New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art as part of an international…