Nairobi What's on
Recent work by Xavier Verhoest.
3 March-20 April 2006. Born in Zaire (present-day Democratic Republic of Congo) in 1964, Xavier Verhoest studied cinematography and editing in Belgium before joining Medecins Sans Frontires as a volun...
Addis Ababa What's on
21-24 Feb 2006. Three documentaries by French anthropologist Thomas Osmond and film maker Jean-Marc Lamoure shed light on the Oromo people originating from present-day southern Ethiopia and northern K...
Maputo What's on
24-25 Feb 2006. Swiss choreographer and multi-media specialist Nicole Seiler is in Maputo as part of a southern African tour with two solo pieces combining dance and video projections. Madame K, dance...
Cape Town What's on
17-26 Feb 2006. This colourful annual festival, organised by Cape Town's gay and lesbian community, offers a wide range of social, cultural and educational events in venues across the city. The progra...
Accra What's on
Ghana Music Awards Festival 2006.
2-6 March 2006. The annual Ghana Music Awards opens on 2 March with the Ghana music industry awards and highlife night. This is followed on 3 March by a conference on key issues in Ghanas music indust...
Nairobi What's on
10-12 March 2006. Each year the Kenya Museum Society organises an art show and sale to highlight the diversity of Kenyan art and to raise funds for the National Museums of Kenya, the umbrella body for...
Addis Ababa What's on
Exhibition and conference for women's day.
9-23 March 2006. Group exhibition of work titled SHE I by women artists. On 9 March there will also be a conference on the condition of women in Ethiopia. Both events mark international women's day, w...
Cape Town What's on
Summer Sunset Concerts at Kirstenbosch.
27 Nov 2005-26 March 2006. The 2005/2006 season of the Appletiser Summer Sunset concerts in the Kirstenbosch botanical gardens continues with acoustic rock outfit and Flat Stanley on 26 Feb. This is f...
Maputo What's on
1-31 March 2006. The Centro Cutural Franco-Moambicano (CCFM) is offering a full programme of events in March to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Senegalese poet, independence leader and...
Accra What's on
J.B. Danquah Memorial lectures.
20-22 Feb 2006. Three lectures organised by the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences explore the theme of Education, Literacy and Governance: A Linguistic Inquiry into Ghanas Burgeoning Democracy. The l...
Maputo What's on
14-24 Feb 2006. Mozambican sculptor Titos Mabota and French artist Anne Laure Roy show their work in a joint exhibition at the Centro Cultural Franco-Moambicano (CCFM). Mabota is well-known both insid...
Addis Ababa What's on
Traditional and religious art.
8-25 February 2006. The Alliance thio-franaise hosts an exhibition of traditional and religious art by Tekeste Yibeyin. Born in the northern Ethiopian city of Axum in 1960, Yibeyin studied under the g...
Nairobi What's on
Property and home living expo.
23-26 Feb 2006. This annual show supported by the institute of surveyors of Kenya focuses on property construction and ownership, interiors, bank loans and mortgages, security, insurance and related...
Accra What's on
Crossing Borders public reading.
3 March 2006. Twelve promising new Ghanaian writers present their work at a public reading organised by the British Council as part of its international Crossing Borders initiative. The authors are al...
Accra What's on
ArtHaus resident artist exhibition.
14 Feb-3 March 2006. Work by Ghanaian wood sculptor Ray-Claver Agbo is on display at the Goethe-Institut. Agbo completed his artistic studies in Lom, Togo, before returning to Ghana in 1994, where he...
Addis Ababa What's on
7 March 2006. Garments by young Ethiopian fashion designer Hanna Tsegaye go on show at the Alliance thio-franaise. Born in Addis Ababa 1981, Tsegaye presented her first show at the Sheraton Addis in M...
Nairobi What's on
28 Feb-31 March 2006. This exhibition and juried competition organised jointly by the Goethe-Institut and the Alliance Franaise showcases work by contemporary artists living in Kenya. Participating ar...
Cape Town What's on
30 March-1 April 2006. The annual Cape Town International Jazz Festival gets underway with a free concert for Cape Town residents in the central Greenmarket Square on 30 March. Over the following two...
Maputo What's on
22 April 2006. Grade 7-12 students from South Africa, Mozambique and Swaziland take part in a speech competition organised by the Toastmasters Club of Mbabane (Swaziland). There are two competition ca...
Cape Town What's on
9 Aug 2005-9 Aug 2006. The Bo-Kaap museum in the heart of Cape Towns Muslim quarter hosts an exhibition on the everyday lives of Muslim women living in the Cape. Out and About Muslim Women Today compr...
