Festivals and Films
Dar Es Salaam What's on
19-31 March 2010. This exhibition of work by Max Raveloson from Madagascar has been organised by the Alliance Fran
Nairobi What's on
Salah Amar and Simon Muriithi at the Talisman
16-31 March 2010. Kenyan artists Salah Amar and Simon Muriithi display their work at the Talisman restaurant in Karen.
Amar is an abstract painter who uses vibrant colors, bold lines and shadow tec...
Nairobi What's on
Collectors & Collections at RaMoMa
17 March-28 April 2010. The Rahimtulla museum of modern art (RaMoMa) presents a group exhibition featuring established Kneyan artists whose work is held in private and corporate collections. The show...
Cairo What's on
8 March-8 April 2010. This exhibition brings together drawings by Spanish artists of the ancient Egyptian Edfu Temple on the Nile. Built between 237 and 57 BC in the city of Edfu, it is the second lar...
Nairobi What's on
3 March-4 April 2010. Group exhibition of work by Anne Mwiti, an art lecturer at Kenyatta University, and 13 other artists from Nairobi. Opening 3 March at 19.00 with the Channel Islands-based art col...
Dar Es Salaam What's on
2-6 March 2010. Works in paint on canvas and wood by Spanish painter Miguel Costales, who has spent many years in Tanzania. The exhibition has been organised in partnership with the Spanish embassy....
Nairobi What's on
2-16 March 2010. Seven Kuona Trust studio artists, Peterson Kamwathi, John Kamicha, Beatrice Wanjiku, Ogonga Thom, Allan Githuka, Kimathi Richard and Soi Michael, reflect on the problem of corruption...
Addis Ababa What's on
Mursi, Black Bull and Iron Soil
17 March-8 April 2010. This exhibition at the National Museum explores the aesthetic world of the Mursi nomadic cattle herders living in the Omo Valley, with a special focus on the role played by colo...
Cairo What's on
21 Feb-17 March. Cairo-based visual artist and cultural historian Huda Lutfi holds her first solo show in her native Egypt for several years. Making a Man out of Him presents a mixed body of work focu...
Cairo What's on
Reem Hassan at Masharabia Gallery
21 Feb-18 March 2010. New work by Reem Hassan, assistant professor at the faculty of fine art at Alexandria University. Daily except Friday from 11.00 to 20.00.
Accra What's on
10-19 March 2010. The Ghana-based Nigerian artist Olaniyi Rasheed Akindiya, better known as Akirash, presents an exhibition at the Goethe-Institut in celebration of all the various moments in life. Op...
Accra What's on
13-30 April 2010. Joint exhibition by Mavis Vondee, who uses discarded materials to create art, and Joyce Akwele Dowokpor, a painter and graduate of the Ghanatta College of Art who uses a vibrant and...
Nairobi What's on
19-24 March 2010. Each year Friends of the Arts (FOTA) at the International School of Kenya organises an annual show and sale of work by over 100 Kenyan and international upcoming and established arti...
Lagos What's on
27 Feb 2010. This exhibition, entitled Whip Not Child, brings together paintings, photographs, video documentaries and the spoken word on the theme of child abuse in Nigeria. Artists Chidi Kwubiri, Mi...
Accra What's on
3-19 March 2010. This exhibition, entitled Frying Pan 2 Fire, features works by the Nigerian artist Olaniyi Rasheed Akindiya, better known as Akirash. Akirash turns materials that are considered usele...
Nairobi What's on
GoDown artists at the Talisman.
16 Feb-2 March 2010. Four resident artists at the GoDown art centre, Tom Mboya, William Wambugu, Patrick Kariuki and Martin Chumbi, present their mixed media work in a group exhibition at the Talisma...
Lagos What's on
21 Feb 2010. This concert features the London-based Nigerian soprano, concert artist and recitalist Victoria Oruwari, accompanied on the piano by Tunde Sosan.
Oruwari started singing as a child and...
Maputo What's on
Prêt-à-partager fashion exhibition.
5 Feb-5 March 2010. This itinerant exhibition is intended to be a trans-national artistic dialogue on fashion, sport, Africa and its Diaspora. The works on show originated in the pr
Dar Es Salaam What's on
Photographs by Mwanzo Millinga.
8-26 Feb 2010. Tanzanian photographer Mwanzo Millinga presents images from his personal project Masai Impressions.
Born in 1967, Millinga has worked extensively as a photographer in Tanzania, Norw...
Nairobi What's on
Textures art exhibition at ISK.
22-27 Feb 2010. High school art students at the International School of Kenya (ISK) present the exhin
