Frontpage Latest News
Subscriptions
Get news alerts Login
Countries
Central AfricaEast AfricaHorn of AfricaIndian OceanNorth AfricaSouthern AfricaWest AfricaAfrica / World
Topics
Agriculture - NutritionCulture - ArtsEconomy - DevelopmentEnvironment - NatureGay - LesbianGender - WomenHealthHuman rightsLabourMediaPoliticsScience - EducationSocietyTechnologyTravel - Leisure
Satire
From Behind
Archives
By Country By Topic Chronological
Currencies The Company
Press Releases Partner Media Contact Us
  Vea esta sección en español  


afrol · Culture - Arts archive


 
afrol Culture - Arts
» Frontpage 
» News
» Index (links) 

Articles
» 16.11.2010 - Lesotho's China-made parliament delayed
» 11.11.2010 - US returns Tutankhamun collection to Egypt
» 02.11.2010 - Seychelles to organise "prestigious" carnival
» 19.10.2010 - Burkina Faso's "crazy opera" is rising
» 01.10.2010 - Botswana independence festivities moved by rare birds
» 28.06.2010 - Congo's Staff Benda Bilili on big tour
» 17.06.2010 - Sahrawi refugee to court: "I'm not a slave"
» 10.06.2010 - African students to get common history syllabus
» 27.05.2010 - Timbuktu ancient document centre opening
» 20.05.2010 - Equatorial Guinea "trying to bribe UNESCO"
» 12.05.2010 - Cesaria Evora undergoes heart operation
» 20.04.2010 - "African Queen" to Tanzania or Germany?
» 16.04.2010 - Mauritanian students protest Arabisation
» 13.04.2010 - Uganda tombs to be reconstructed
» 13.04.2010 - Movie industry discovering Mozambique
» 09.04.2010 - Music again banned in Mogadishu
» 31.03.2010 - Berber languages "threatened in Morocco, Algeria"
» 29.03.2010 - Racist song "part of South Africa's heritage"
» 24.03.2010 - Witchcraft meets modern medicine in Ghana
» 23.03.2010 - Ethiopia dam to "devastate entire tribes"
» 17.03.2010 - Uganda's Unesco-listed royal tombs lost to fire
» 05.03.2010 - UK returns ancient artefacts to Egypt
» 01.03.2010 - Massive Pharaoh’s head unearthed
» 22.02.2010 - UNESCO offers support for Morocco’s damaged heritage site
» 19.02.2010 - Southern Africa youth exchange programme launched in Maputo
» 08.02.2010 - Botswana youth get World Bank funding
» 22.12.2009 - First female wins Liberia's youth leadership award
» 15.12.2009 - World's largest digital archives for Egyptian and Arabic history created
» 15.12.2009 - Kenya urged to adopt marriage bill
» 18.11.2009 - Heart disease discovered in ancient Egyptian mummies
» 09.10.2009 - African music awards to boost war against AIDS
» 08.10.2009 - PUMA unveils 2010 African football team kits
» 07.10.2009 - Young Liberians to audition for top music award
» 09.09.2009 - Zambian artist competing for $83,000 in Norway
» 04.09.2009 - SA designer to show at New York fashion week
» 04.06.2009 - Burkina, Cape Verde seek first UNESCO inscription
» 21.05.2009 - Sahrawis launch national television
» 11.05.2009 - Tanzanian artists join in the theme art work for Europe week
» 06.05.2009 - Nigerian filmmakers making a global mark
» 15.04.2009 - Congo spirits win environmental battle
» 06.04.2009 - Thousands to be re-buried as Rwanda commemorates genocide
» 23.03.2009 - Egypt demands Pharoanic coffin back
» 10.03.2009 - Ancient gold found in Egyptian tomb
» 27.02.2009 - Humans have walked the earth more than 1.5 millions years ago, study
» 19.02.2009 - Kenya to host new Africa reality TV show
» 09.02.2009 - Egypt finds 30 mummies
» 14.11.2008 - 1.3 million year old human fossil found in Ethiopia
» 13.11.2008 - Namibian beer wins gold medal
» 11.11.2008 - Egypt discover ancient pyramid
» 10.10.2008 - Cameroonian songbird jailed for rioting
» 23.07.2008 - Egypt to retrieve ancient statue from Netherlands
» 09.07.2008 - Ethiopia "surprised" by fascist monuments in Italy
» 19.06.2008 - Reconstruction of Madagascar royal palace progressing
» 17.06.2008 - Egypt's renowned film-maker in coma
» 06.06.2008 - Algerian singer Khaled "assaulted in Morocco"
» 04.06.2008 - New pyramid discovered in Egypt
» 30.05.2008 - Pharaonic army HQ found in Sinai
» 25.10.2007 - Kenya leader shuns violence
» 17.07.2007 - DNA tests seem to identify Egyptian queen
» 29.06.2007 - South Africa fails to get World Heritage listing
» 27.06.2007 - Gold processing centre found in ancient Kush (Sudan)
» 13.06.2007 - Africa’s cinema father is gone
» 04.06.2007 - Ancient Egyptian tomb discovered
» 04.06.2007 - Angola, Zimbabwe go for cultural tourism
» 26.03.2007 - Nigeria's native languages to promote science application
» 06.03.2007 - Ghana celebrates 50 years of independence
» 02.03.2007 - Nollywood absent in Africa's Fespaco film festival
» 23.02.2007 - Bissau carnivals claim 8 lives
» 16.02.2007 - No controversy to stop Ghana's 50th anniversary
» 18.01.2007 - South African museum displays Saddam's medals
» 15.01.2007 - Ethiopia gears up for millennium party
» 04.01.2007 - Liberia scolded for trying to uproot Weah's statue
» 22.12.2006 - Christmas "unique in West Africa"
» 11.12.2006 - Egypt's historic sites seriously threatened
» 08.12.2006 - African blood diamond film hits theatres
» 01.12.2006 - World's oldest religion discovered in Botswana
» 31.10.2006 - Selling sex, crime & soccer to South Africans
» 30.10.2006 - Senegal increases subsidies for private media
» 27.10.2006 - South African airport named after anti-apartheid hero
» 13.09.2006 - Preparations for Timbuktu manuscript centre advance
» 12.09.2006 - Mauritania's Prussian past revealed: A desert pharmacy
» 04.09.2006 - Somali Islamists ban music; "intimidated" top artist agrees
» 19.06.2006 - Generous herdsmen of Niger honoured by UNESCO
» 07.06.2006 - US declassifies documents on freedom fighter Amílcar Cabral
» 24.05.2006 - South Africa's film industry joins forces with UK
» 15.05.2006 - African movie channel launched in UK
» 04.05.2006 - African contemporary art festival to open in Dakar
» 03.05.2006 - More African World Heritage sites wanted
» 03.05.2006 - Zimbabwe govt tries to silence musicians
» 02.05.2006 - Burundi sued over photo on 10,000 franc note
» 12.04.2006 - Medieval trans-Sahara mineral trade mapped
» 07.04.2006 - Secrets of Judas, Jesus kept in Egypt for 1700 years
» 03.04.2006 - Egypt's top mufti bans statues
» 01.03.2006 - Nigeria gears up for 1st Zuma Film Festival
» 24.02.2006 - Carnival starts in Mindelo, Cape Verde
» 24.02.2006 - Nigeria hopes for forex revenues on arts, culture
» 07.02.2006 - Editorial: Banning blasphemy would be an insult to Islam
» 30.11.2005 - Tourists welcomed to SA's "Cradle of Humankind"
» 04.11.2005 - Seychelles Creole seeks a place in the Internet
» 01.08.2005 - Beninese artist exposes African injustice in Europe
» 21.07.2005 - 186 year old court refurbished in Sierra Leone
» 27.05.2005 - Two new World Heritage sites for Gabon?
» 26.04.2005 - Axum obelisk has returned to Ethiopia
» 06.04.2005 - Egypt's pharaohs enjoyed red wine
» 31.03.2005 - Role of African memorial museums discussed
» 30.03.2005 - Intrafrika+ art exhibition culminates in Cameroon
» 29.03.2005 - Kenya craftsmen get environmental certificate
» 18.03.2005 - Axum obelisk finally returning to Ethiopia
» 09.03.2005 - Protests as South Africa plans to rename capital Tshwane
» 07.03.2005 - South Africa's "Drum" wins at Fespaco
» 04.03.2005 - First "African Poetry Market" opens in Ouagadougou
» 03.03.2005 - Ouagadougou culture life blossoms during Fespaco
» 01.03.2005 - Finances discussed at pan-African film festival
» 28.02.2005 - Two killed as Burkina Faso film festival opens
» 22.02.2005 - Africa gets own MTV channel today
» 21.02.2005 - South African film wins Golden Bear
» 10.02.2005 - South Africa's Robben Island hosts Valentine's weddings
» 09.02.2005 - African rock art "under severe threat"
» 08.02.2005 - Guinea-Bissau launches Bolama as world heritage site
» 03.02.2005 - Cape Verde's Cesária Évora receives prizes
» 17.12.2004 - New book celebrates Miriam Makeba
» 29.11.2004 - Scull of Egypt's biblical Pharaoh may be found
» 21.10.2004 - Cape Verde mourns Creole singer Ildo Lobo
» 13.10.2004 - "Alcohol ban behind Lesotho arts festival failure"
» 30.09.2004 - Next year's carnival prepared in Guinea-Bissau
» 24.09.2004 - Plans made for railway museum in Sierra Leone
» 13.09.2004 - Nigeria's filmmakers "comply with censors board"
» 09.09.2004 - Traditional healers recognised by South African lawmakers
» 06.09.2004 - New tomb found below Egypt's Giza pyramids
» 19.08.2004 - Zambian TV employees fired after "masturbation film"
» 16.08.2004 - Identity Crisis: the last fortress of Somalism is about to fall
» 13.08.2004 - Giant French movie production shot in Djibouti
» 06.07.2004 - Togo finally gets its first World Heritage site
» 05.07.2004 - Mali's Tomb of Askia becomes world heritage
» 05.07.2004 - Mazagan, Morocco honoured as "outstanding"
» 12.06.2004 - Miriam Makeba honoured at US-Africa event
» 09.06.2004 - Post-genocide exhibition concludes Rwanda tour
» 24.05.2004 - South Africa addresses deaths at traditional initiations
» 20.04.2004 - South Africa "cradle of human culture"
» 13.04.2004 - Nigeria upgrades main local languages
» 02.04.2004 - Carnival to promote cultural tourism in Nigeria
» 19.03.2004 - Walvis Bay celebrates 10 years re-integration into Namibia
» 02.03.2004 - Controversial state aid for old Xhosa rite
» 01.03.2004 - South Africa celebrates Oscar winner Theron
» 18.02.2004 - Moat of Nigeria's ancient Benin Kingdom to be restored
» 10.02.2004 - Rock paintings in South Africa older than thought
» 09.02.2004 - Grammy for Cape Verde's Cesária Évora
» 12.01.2004 - World Slavery Abolition Year launched in Ghana
» 02.10.2003 - Nobel Literature Prize for John Coetzee
» 05.09.2003 - Kenyan Catholics strike against African literature
» 29.07.2003 - Senegalese singer to raise AIDS awareness
» 25.07.2003 - Africa's early ecologic-cultural history studied
» 18.07.2003 - Cape Verdean singer becomes WFP ambassador
» 04.07.2003 - First Sudanese world heritage site named
» 03.07.2003 - Ancient SA kingdom returns to honour
» 03.07.2003 - James Island Gambia's first world heritage site
» 03.07.2003 - Zimbabwe's Matobo Hills named world heritage site
» 24.06.2003 - Sacred forests conserve Madagascar's biodiversity
» 21.06.2003 - No raw materials for Kenyan wood carvers
» 19.05.2003 - South Africa's DJ Khabzela in AIDS polemics
Documents
Features
» Dakar from Africa's gay capital to centre of homophobia
» Moshoeshoe of Lesotho, "Africa's greatest leader"
» Beads - a showcase of Africa's heritage
» Maputo: Joining Gustave Eiffel in Latin Africa
» German Wituland, a colonial rarity
» Banc d'Arguin: The Imraguen guards of culture and nature
» Rise and Fall of the Adamawa Emirate
» Francophone Literature:
From Negritude to Realism

For older items, please look in the old archives. This archive will within due time contain all Culture - Arts news items.

top of page about afrol News | news | countries | archive | services | feed back | español 

© afrol News. Reproducing or buying afrol News' articles.

   You can contact us at mail@afrol.com