Bowscapes review: album celebrates new traditions in South Africa’s ancient bow music
MUSICAL bows are among the oldest instruments in southern Africa. Musicologists think the “ping” a bowstring makes when an arrow
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Calm Down: how a Nigerian singer and a Cameroonian dancer inspired a powerful protest in Iran
ON 8 March 2023, five teenage girls uploaded on social media a video of themselves performing the Calm Down Dance
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Gloria Bosman was more than a South African jazz vocalist, she was a guiding light
THE immediate public reaction to the death of Gloria Bosman from a short respiratory illness on 14 March 2023 was
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Walid Kilonzi is telling the African story with virtual reality
STRAP on a pair of virtual reality goggles and a Kenyan company will instantly whisk you away. Through immersive technologies, Fallohide is helping governments and companies throughout Africa create value and reduce costs through simulations and 360 films. Walid Kilonzi is the studio’s producer and founder.
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The healing work of the social circus, Tamba Africa
HALEEMA Mekani was mapping her return to Zimbabwe from Italy, where she was studying, when an opportunity to co-lead a new social circus came her way. Today, Mekani and her team are healing societal wounds through Tamba Africa Social Circus.
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Costa Titch: the rising white South African rap star who embraced black hip-hop culture
RISING 28-year-old South African dancer and rapper Costa Titch (born Costa Tsobanoglou) died after collapsing on stage on 11 March
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Dance Me to the End of Time: South African film on death is a powerful celebration of life
IN her 2021 documentary Dance Me to the End of Time, South African filmmaker and educator Melanie Chait has produced
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Chris Rock unleashes on Will Smith and wife Jada a year after Oscars slap
LISA RICHWINE A year after he was slapped on stage at the Academy Awards, Chris Rock hammered Will Smith and
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Burkina’s film festival in full swing despite fighting on its doorstep
IN Burkina Faso’s capital, Ouagadougou, soldiers give directions to movie-goers and journalists attending the continent’s premier film festival that is
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Pretty Yende, a South African opera star with a voice that shatters glass ceilings
IT’S been announced that South African opera star Pretty Yende will sing at King Charles III’s coronation on 6 May
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