Nairobi What's on
20-25 October 2009. The annual Kenya Orchid Society Show takes place in the Sarit Centre, Kenya's biggest and best known commercial shopping location. A wide variety of orchids will be on display and...
Maputo What's on
20-31 October 2009. Jean-Paul Vermeulen is a Belgian photographer who was born in South Africa and spent part of his formative years in Rwanda, where he developed his love of wildlife and photography....
Cairo What's on
13 Oct-5 Nov 2009. This group exhibition brings together the work of 15 international photographers, who portray their country of origin. The artists highlight various aspects of daily life in Egypt t...
Addis Ababa What's on
XVII International Conference of Ethiopian Studies
2-7 November 2009. The XVII International Conference of Ethiopian Studies is being held at the Institute of Ethiopian Studies at Addis Ababa University. Ethiopia is a geographical and cultural cross-r...
Cairo What's on
2009 Margaret Mead Traveling Film and Video Festival.
12 Oct-5 Nov 2009. The American University in Cairo hosts this international traveling film and video festival for the second consecutive year. The programme includes international documentaries on a...
Lagos What's on
Dance Meets Danse Festival 2009.
26 Oct-1 Nov 2009. This event, which started in 2001, brings together Nigerian and international contemporary dance companies to share ideas and experiences and to promote regional understanding and i...
Cairo What's on
10 Oct-7 Nov 2009. This exhibition features work by 12 artists who explore their relationship with bread. Each artist focuses on a different aspect of the culture of bread and its significance for soc...
Cape Town What's on
8-24 Oct 2009. This satirical work deals with the pretensions of self-realization and other absurd attitudes of modern man. The protagonist is an orphan named Lubbe who suddenly becomes very rich and...
Arusha What's on
Handel’s Messiah at the Selian Hospice
10 Oct. Organised by the Selian Hospice, this special concert is sure to attract media coverage and generate much-needed funds for medical supplies. The event features ten choirs from the Arusha area,...
Addis Ababa What's on
Cycle through Ethiopia for Maternity Worldwide
30 Oct-13 Nov. Described by organisers Maternity Worldwide as a trip of a lifetime, this two-week cycling event begins in Addis Ababa and finishes in Gimbi in western Ethiopia. Maternity Worldwide is...
Maputo What's on
International Food Fair in Maputo
10 Oct. An international food fair takes place in the main campus of Maputo International School, where visitors can sample food from as far afield as Latin America and Asia. In addition to the food f...
Dar Es Salaam What's on
Africa Diaspora Heritage Trail Conference
25-30 Oct. Tanzania is the first African country to host the Africa Diaspora Heritage Trail Conference (ADHT), now in its fifth year. It is hoped that 200 people of African origin will make the journe...
Nairobi What's on
Kenya International Film Festival
21-31 Oct. This year's film festival, under the title Africa and the Diaspora, has attracted a large amount of international interest. The festival takes the form of a competition and award-winning Af...
Lagos What's on
9 Oct 2009. The Cape Town-based jazz band Babu, led by the young drummer Kesivan Naidoo, performs live at Alliance Francaise.
Naidoo was born in East London in 1979 and started playing music at a ve...
Cape Town What's on
15 Oct 2009. This concert is entirely dedicated to the Afro-American recording artist, musician and actor John Stephens, better known as John Legend, who has won six Grammy awards. Supported by a ten-...
Accra What's on
Jazz and World Music Festival.
12-20 Oct 2009. This is the first jazz and world music festival to be held in Accra. The programme includes concerts by renowned African musicians such as the South African Babu Group, who play jazz a...
Cape Town What's on
16-30 Oct 2009. This work is the first opera by the composer Jake Heggie and the librettist Terence McNelly, based on the best-selling novel by Sister Helen Prejean, spiritual advisor to the convicted...
Cairo What's on
29 Sept-24 Oct 2009. For the first time since 2006 a solo show is dedicated to the young Egyptian artist Wael Shawky. The Factory and first-floor gallery spaces contain recent videos and drawings show...
