Accra What's on
9 Feb. This concert is performed by Burkina Electric, an electronic music band from Burkina Faso.
The band is the first in the country to have experimented with electronic music. The three musician...
Accra What's on
22 Feb. For the series of African film screening, Goethe Institut hosts the projection of Soul Boy, moderated by the filmmaker Zelalem Woldemariam and followed by a public discussion.
Set in Nairob...
Accra What's on
20 Feb. After the two dramatic movies Head-On and The Edge of Heaven, the German-Turkish movie director Fatih Akin presents this comedy, entitled Soul Kitchen.
It tells the story of Zinos, a German...
Cape Town What's on
Material Women? The Shweshwe Story
23 Feb 2013-31 Dec 2014. This exhibition displays a series of costumes, accessories and contextual images collected by Dr Juliette Leeb-du Toit, which retrace the origins of isishweshwe cloth.
It f...
Cape Town What's on
30 Jan-30 Mar. The Cape Winelands district, which stretch from Constantia to Calitzdorp, celebrate the South African harvest season and invite the public to participate to this year’s local crop...
Addis Ababa What's on
Photographic Exhibition by Hugues Fontaine
31 Jan-18 Feb. On occasion of the release of the book Un train en Afrique, African Train. Djibouti-Ethiopia, published by the French Centre for Ethiopian Studies, this exhibition displays the photogra...
Addis Ababa What's on
Francesco Cusa & The Assassins
31 Jan. This jazz concert is performed by the famous musician Francesco Cusa and his new trio band, The Assassins.
This trio has inherited the same compository approach as Cusa’s previous gro...
Addis Ababa What's on
1 Feb. The German electric guitarist Werner Neumann inaugurates the Acacia Jazz Festival, which takes place on the following weekend.
Born 1964 in Cologne, Werner studied music and jazz guitar and...
Accra What's on
9 Feb. Goethe celebrates the German Carnival, better known as Jecken, a long tradition spanning centuries, which foresees public celebrations and parades, which mix elements of circus, masks and stree...
Nairobi What's on
In Art We Can by Armando Tanzini
31 Jan-14 Feb. This exhibition features a series of paintings by the Italian artist Armando Tanzini.
Born in Livorno in 1943, he started his artistic career at a very young age and was a student an...
Nairobi What's on
15-27 Jan. The Heartstrings Kenya presents this theatrical play, entitled Resolutions broken in Kenya and directed by Sammy Mwangi and Victor Ber.
This hilarious comedy tries to explain to the publ...
Nairobi What's on
18-26 Jan. This play, entitled The Jury, was adapted from Reginald Rose’s Twelve Angry Men.
The plot centres on the deliberation of a jury in a homicide trial. The initial, nearly unanimous,...
Dar Es Salaam What's on
Africa Tours Tanzania destination travel - Event kilimanjaro trekking expedition
Tours. Tanzania tourism rank is increasing among other African countries. There is yearly increment of travelers visiting Tanzania. All tourists are invited to participate kilimanjaro trekking event...
Cape Town What's on
The Three Little Pigs at Baxter
16 Jan-9 Feb. This drama, entitled Three Little Pigs, is directed by the multi award winning artist Tara Notcutt and stars Rob van Vuuren, James Cairns and Albert Pretorius.
This psychological and...
Cape Town What's on
Tribute to François le Vaillant
29 Nov-26 May. This exhibition, entitled The King’s Map, pays homage to François le Vaillant (1753-1824), French traveler, explorer, naturalist and social critic, as well as the first sig...
Cape Town What's on
29 Nov-19 Jan. This exhibition displays the audio-visual works by Jared Thorne, the 2012 Donald Gordon Creative Arts Fellow, who presents his new vision of Black South Africans.
Thorne is in consta...
Cape Town What's on
An African Tale of the Mother City
2 Nov-31 Jan. This travelling exhibition, entitled An African Tale of the Mother City, focuses on the city of Cape Town and its many more and less known stories of ordinary people, especially women, w...
Accra What's on
17 Jan-26 Feb. Goethe Institut in collaboration with the Amorkor Gallery of Osu present this abstract oil painting exhibition on the storytelling genre by the Ghanaian painter Nii Amasah.
Amasah li...
Accra What's on
Projection of Kebab Connection
24 Jan. Goethe Institut screens Kebab Connection, a German feature film by Anno Saul.
Set in the Schanzenviertel, a multicultural district in Hamburg, Germany, it tells the story of a young Turkish...
Accra What's on
2 Feb. The young producer Eyram Adorkor presents his new comedy, entitled Lovers Agony, produced by Kritikproduction.
Adorkor, who showcased in 2012 the theatrical play LiebesNe(s)t (Lovenet), focu...
