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Maputo What's on

Traditional music and dance festival in Pemba.

26-30 July 2006. The ministry of education and culture is organising a festival of traditional music and dance in the coastal city of Pemba in northern Mozambique. The programme includes performances...
Nairobi What's on

Cartoon talent exhibition.

12-28 July 2006. This exhibition of cartoons organised by the Association of East African Cartoonists (KATUNI) at the Goethe-Institut Nairobi features the best of Kenyan amateur cartoonists as determi...
Nairobi What's on

Paintings by Anthony Okello in Nairobi.

11 July-1 Aug 2006. Mixed-media artist Anthony Okello exhibits work at Rahimtulla Museum of Modern Art (RaMoMa) in Nairobi. Born in Awendo in 1976, Okello studied graphic design at the Buru Buru Insti...
Addis Ababa What's on

Contemporary posters from Japan.

5-25 July 2006. Over 70 posters by contemporary Japanese artists are on display at the national museum in Addis Ababa in an exhibition organised by the culture ministry, the national museum and the Ja...
Accra What's on

World Press Photo 2006.

20 July-4 Aug 2006. The prizewinning entries in the 2006 World Press Photo contest are on display at the National Museum in Accra. This is the first time that the results of the prestigious annual pho...
Maputo What's on

Sukuma leads music workshop.

19 July 2006. Popular Mozambican musician Stewart Sukuma leads a workshop under the title Nurturing the Mozambican imagination. Guests Dr Salomao Manhica, director of the Mozambique national institute...
Maputo What's on

Guitarist Nanando in concert.

21 July 2006. Acclaimed Mozambican guitarist Nanando performs in concert at the French Mozambican cultural centre in Maputo. Nanando combines technical skill with great expressiveness to create what m...
Accra What's on

Talk on human development.

28 July 2006. The youth-based non-governmental organisation Foundation for Human Development is organising a discussion on the theme Facing todays challenges for tomorrows success at the British Counc...
Nairobi What's on

Shootback. Photos from Mathare slum.

9 June-31 July 2006. Photographs by children and young people living in Nairobis second largest slum document the importance of sports in general and football in particular in transforming their lives...
Cape Town What's on

Sizwe Banzi is Dead.

11 July-5 Aug 2006. South African actor, writer and director Athol Fugards classic play about the injustice of apartheid is showing at the Baxter Theatre in Cape Town. Developed through improvisation...
Nairobi What's on

Work by Lucki Mutebi.

22 July-17 Aug 2006. Work by Lucki Mutebi is on show in the Shapes in art exhibition at the Banana Hill gallery just outside Nairobi. 10.00-18.00. Admission free.
Nairobi What's on

On-line art exhibition.

Ongoing. Work by Kenyan and African artists who took part in the Free Your Spirit exhibition and sale organised by Africancolours.net in Nairobi in mid-April can now be viewed on line at http://www.ke...
Addis Ababa What's on

New romantic comedy on general release.

From 21 July 2006. Producer, director and writer Berhane Negussie makes his film debut with Love & Dance, a romantic comedy exploring the ideal of true love and commitment to artistic excellence again...
Maputo What's on

Women seen by Senghor.

4 July 2006. Posters by secondary school students of French on the theme of Women as seen by Senghor go on display at the French-Mozambican cultural centre in Maputo. The posters are the result of a c...
Nairobi What's on

Film on labour issues.

6 July 2006. The Italian non-governmental organisation Istitito Pace Sviluppo Innovazione Acli (IPSIA) presents the short film in English Kazi ni Kazi in the Michelangelo Hall of the Italian Cultural...
Accra What's on

Art in Aktion in Bolgatanga.

21 June-7 July 2006. Contemporary women artists from Ghana and Burkina Faso are at the Sand Gardens Hotel in Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region of Ghana for a two-week international art workshop orga...
Cape Town What's on

Artscape dance collaboration.

6-8 July 2006. Collaborations, now in its second year, is a programme of dance involving young artists from different backgrounds and communities. This year the line-up includes artists from the accla...
Addis Ababa What's on

Leather goods trade fair.

7-11 July 2006. Local and international manufacturers exhibit their leather and leather products at the exhibition centre in Addis Ababa. The five-day programme for the trade fair includes live music...
Maputo What's on

Augusto Cuvilas dances.

13 July 2006. Mozambican choreographer and dancer Augusto Cuvilas performs his own work El tango de la Muerte at the French-Mozambican cultural centre. Born in 1971, Cuvilas studied dance at the Natio...
Maputo What's on

Les Barbecues.

15 July 2006. Established in 1960 by a group of students from Amiens and Rouens in France, Les Barbecues have given over 1,500 concerts all over the world. In Maputo they perform a programme of New Or...
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