Impressive art to view at First Floor Gallery in Harare during the festive season
By CityLife Arts Writer If you happen to be to be in Harare this festive season and you have time to view some art in that city you perhaps would … Read More
Tribute to Carlos Djedje: The death of a reggae legend
By Moshidi Nkgaphe Joseph (DJ Boogieman International) Carlos Djedje is the pioneer of Reggae music in Africa, a legendary musician, promoter, an activist and freedom fighter who contributed in the … Read More
AKA: slain South African rapper was a once-in-a-generation pop culture sensation
Sanya Osha, University of Cape Town AKA, South Africa’s most recognisable name in hip-hop, was gunned down – with his friend, celebrity chef Tebello ‘Tibz’ Motsoane – outside a restaurant … Read More
Kole Omotoso, the Nigerian writer, scholar and actor who inspired a continent
Olayinka Oyegbile, Trinity University, Lagos Bankole Ajibabi Omotoso, better known as Kole Omotoso, the Nigerian novelist, playwright, journalist, scholar and actor, died on 19 July 2023. His son Akin Omotoso, … Read More
Gloria Bosman was more than a South African jazz vocalist, she was a guiding light
Gwen Ansell, University of Pretoria The immediate public reaction to the death of Gloria Bosman from a short respiratory illness on 14 March 2023 was shocked disbelief. The multiple award-winning … Read More
Sylvia Mdunyelwa, one of South Africa’s great jazz vocalists, kept music traditions alive
Gwen Ansell, University of Pretoria If Miriam Makeba is hailed as the South African vocalist of her generation who brilliantly embraced (and actually shaped) global music sounds, and Sathima Bea … Read More
The astonishing life and music of Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, the Ethiopian nun who’s died at 99
Ilana Webster-Kogen, SOAS, University of London As the Ethiopian pianist Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou approached the age of 100, fans and music critics from the US to Ethiopia, Israel to Europe … Read More