Far from the usual, on a busy street located in the Olympia neighborhood of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Tryst Addis has become the local flavor. Pitching in on a recent rise Read More..
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Selam Festival 2016
Selam Festival’s 2016 Lineup includes Ethiopian legend Mahmoud Ahmed and world-renowned Hip-Hop artist Yasiin Bey formerly known as Mos Def In an annual tradition, Selam festival’s fifth edition is Read More..
Remembering a Friend and Comrade
I no longer recall when exactly I met Sam. Maybe it was in the late 1970s at CODESRIA, or in the early 1980s at the Zimbabwe Institute of Development Studies. Read More..
Malawi Zomba Prison band receives Grammy nomination
Zomba Prison Project, a Malawi prison band has been nominated for a Grammy award in the World Music category. The nomination is the first time that a music production from Read More..
How Africa’s Fastest Solar Power Project is Lighting up Rwanda
“Arise, shine for your light has come,” reads a sign at the entrance to the first major solar power farm in east Africa. The 8.5 megawatt (MW) power plant in Read More..
AFRIMA 2015 WINNERS
The 2015 All Africa Music Award (AFRIMA), an Annual African Union (AUC) initiative to celebrate, honour and reward the best of African Music, Arts and Culture, was held in Nigeria Read More..