http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-arts EssentialAfrica Drum Arts en 60 http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/23/world/africa/the-spear-a-racy-painting-apparently-of-jacob-zuma-stirs-controversy-in-south-africa.html?_r=1&smid=tw-nytimes&seid=auto South Africa’s governing party, the African National Congress, went to court on Tuesday to try to force an art gallery http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-arts#10396 Wed, 23 May 2012 16:59:48 +0200 http://www.africareview.com/Arts+and+Culture/-/979194/1405494/-/b6oodgz/-/index.html Last year, as the battle over the Cote d'Ivoire presidency raged in Abidjan's streets, Aboudia locked himself in his studio and painted images of mangled bodies, ghostly soldiers and child coffins. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-arts#10356 Tue, 22 May 2012 17:16:30 +0200 http://www.portalangop.co.ao/motix/en_us/noticias/politica/2012/4/20/President-wants-preservation-cultural-values-social-peace-Official,0ae972ce-8082-42ee-ad4e-9303b883f91d.html Angolan head of State and president of the ruling MPLA party José Eduardo dos Santos is concerned about family’s cohesion, preservation of cultural values,... http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-arts#10295 Wed, 16 May 2012 10:13:57 +0200 http://www.elwatan.com/culture/le-patrimoine-des-aures-a-alger-14-05-2012-170538_113.php An exhibition of 136 photographs of the heritage of the Aures taken by children in the region http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-arts#10293 Wed, 16 May 2012 10:05:32 +0200 http://www1.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2012-05-14-ilan-godfrey-wins-openphoto-award Johannesburg-based photographer Ilan Godfrey has won the inaugural OPENPhoto Award for the essay Legacy of the Mines, his intriguing and evocative series of square images depicting people on the fringes of the commodity world. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-arts#10254 Mon, 14 May 2012 15:09:07 +0200 http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jHy1BMJP5L3DncCoRo8pJSpVvCpQ?docId=CNG.fd9fa0c5527928ae0400df91ce697021.251 "We've got to act fast," said Karim Rouissi, vice-president of Casamemoire, an association to protect the city's old buildings. "There are buildings that are in a state of advanced disrepair." http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-arts#10189 Wed, 9 May 2012 09:47:48 +0200 http://mg.co.za/article/2012-05-07-a-new-cultural-landscape The Wits Art Museum is the latest addition to the layered cultural landscape of Johannesburg. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-arts#10158 Mon, 7 May 2012 17:23:59 +0200 http://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/on-stage/tunisian-director-adapts-macbeth-for-the-world-shakespeare-festival Ambition, tyranny and violence - the key ingredients of William Shakespeare's bloody tragedy Macbeth. Though some 400 years old, the play is thoroughly modern to the film and theatre director Lotfi Achour, who believes the very same issues triggered the Arab Spring in his native Tunisia. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-arts#9975 Mon, 23 Apr 2012 09:32:44 +0200 http://www.mediasourceafrica.com/index.php?command=view&category=forum_message&id=202 This category has been introduced in 2012 for entries from outside of South Africa. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-arts#9771 Thu, 5 Apr 2012 16:13:50 +0200 http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/digital-emmy-awards-well-told-story-kenya-femme-fatales-306659 The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences started a new chapter for Kenya by awarding multi-media communications project “Well Told Story” with a Digital Emmy Award, the country’s first, at a ceremony in Cannes on Sunday night. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-arts#9709 Mon, 2 Apr 2012 09:25:43 +0200 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-17436937 Somalia's national theatre has reopened in Mogadishu, more than 20 years after it last shut its doors. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-arts#9513 Tue, 20 Mar 2012 05:39:46 +0100 http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE82I09D20120319 Tunisia's culture minister, under fire for saying he would exclude sexy Lebanese pop stars from an annual music festival, http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-arts#9512 Tue, 20 Mar 2012 05:36:35 +0100 http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/03/07/199156.html The Moroccan film Androman de Sange et de Charbon (Androman of Blood and Carbon), which tackles injustice against women and the issue of gender change, is to premier in Moroccan movie theatres in March after winning several awards at the Festival National du Film (National Film Festival) in Tangiers. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-arts#9337 Wed, 7 Mar 2012 13:09:40 +0100 http://www.timeslive.co.za/lifestyle/article3954002.ece The way young Algerian artist Aghiles Issiakhem sees it, the future for many of his 20-something generation is as bleak as his charcoal portraits of them. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-arts#9038 Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:36:25 +0100 http://blog.cartoonmovement.com/2012/02/army-of-god-preview.html This month Cartoon Movement will begin serializing Army Of God by David Axe and Tim Hamilton... http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-arts#8899 Thu, 2 Feb 2012 15:16:54 +0100 http://www.theliberianjournal.com/index.php?st=news&sbst=details&rid=2409&comesOfTheHome=1 When Liberia’s legendry folk singer Yatta Zoe made a blunt remark recently that “Liberians don’t respect artists,”... http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-arts#8539 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 07:52:50 +0100 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-16319572 In a village near South Sudan's capital, Juba, two women tentatively approach a small corrugated iron hut. ... This is the set of one of South Sudan's first homemade movies, written, directed and produced by the Woyee Film and Theatre Industry, a collective of young South Sudanese who are driving ... http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-arts#8297 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 22:49:10 +0100 http://www.panorientnews.com/en/news.php?k=1503 A Tunisian artist appeared semi nude on the cover of TuniVision, a Tunisian magazine, causing a stir and reactions across Arabic media and social network sites. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-arts#8022 Thu, 8 Dec 2011 10:29:58 +0100 http://www.essentialafrica.com/updates/699/themes-in-african-art A highly anticipated Zimbabwe Youth Festival slated for December 10, 2011, is a gig Urban Grooves lovers should not miss as it brings together a collection of young artists who are billed to unleash an early Christmas performance package at the Glamis Arena. The youth festival will run under the ... http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-arts#7931 Sat, 3 Dec 2011 18:20:55 +0100 http://mimeta.squarespace.com/mimeta-news/2011/11/1/national-ballet-centre-in-zim-destroyed.html The Dance Trust of Zimbabwe announced that the collapse of the centre, which was built 35 years ago and has housed and trained the national dancing community for decades, is a national disaster and throws doubt over the future of dance in Zimbabwe. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-arts#7880 Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:07:24 +0100 http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/515114 “Shoot and make us the last cowardly generation [in Egypt],” begins the two-hour “Tahrir Monologues." In the performance — it is not a play, according to the event’s flyers — 20 young people act out and recount their stories from the first 18 days of the revolution. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-arts#7640 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 08:22:58 +0100 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-11841303 The BBC News website wants your digital photographs of Africa to feature in themed galleries. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-arts#7599 Mon, 14 Nov 2011 15:36:34 +0100 http://www.timeslive.co.za/Feeds/Multimedia/2011/11/09/kenya-s-disabled-go-from-streets-to-stage-video The Pamoja dance troupe is different to most Kenyan dance troupes. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-arts#7526 Wed, 9 Nov 2011 13:51:52 +0100 http://mg.co.za/multimedia/2011-11-08-sticks-and-stones Small galleries and studios are impacting the Swazi art scene, providing training and support for artists as well as a place for their work to be seen and sold. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-arts#7522 Wed, 9 Nov 2011 13:41:02 +0100 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/nov/03/film-africa-post-colonial-hollywood Africa's moviemakers are challenging Hollywood's tired vision of poverty and war. We should hear their stories http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-arts#7469 Sun, 6 Nov 2011 09:00:28 +0100 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15539376 A court in Nigeria has ordered that popular comedian Baba Suwe - detained on suspicion of drug trafficking - be released on bail by Friday. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-arts#7418 Tue, 1 Nov 2011 16:52:21 +0100 http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jG5n55J1KCDCEpvIjQX0qgw3dNuQ?docId=CNG.98d9e06e541009222caf4e8ecdcf07a9.6c1 Internationally acclaimed Algerian author Boualem Sansal on Sunday received the annual German Book Trade Peace Prize and said that people everywhere were rising up against dictatorship. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-arts#6958 Mon, 17 Oct 2011 10:23:13 +0200 http://www.artlink.co.za/news_article.htm?contentID=28312 Morocco: The Sovereign Art Foundation announced that Hassan Hajjaj from Morocco has been awarded the first prize in the inaugural 2011 Sovereign African Art Prize. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-arts#6852 Wed, 12 Oct 2011 13:04:41 +0200 http://www.the-star.co.ke/word-is/word-is/40065-kaveke-might-attend-london-fashion-week-after-all Kenya's top designer John Kaveke is still hopeful that he will be attending the London Fashion Week even after the British High Commission denied him a visa into the UK. “I really don’t know the reason behind them denying me a visa but I guess they assumed I would not ... http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-arts#6220 Thu, 15 Sep 2011 07:11:33 +0200 http://www.africareview.com/Arts+and+Culture/Mali+captured+in+four+bold+steps/-/979194/1234986/-/12tsh3gz/-/index.html When he recently stepped onto the stage, Malian actor Nouhoum Cissé embodied the history of Mali, of up to 51 years after the West African country gained independence from the French, and that was just in four calculated steps. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-arts#6158 Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:39:04 +0200 http://thedailynewsegypt.com/film/egyptian-screen-legend-seductress-hind-rostom-dies-at-82.html The strong-headed, independent characters Rostom so memorably embodied in enduring classics like Youssef Chahine’s “Cairo Station,” “The Nun” and “Between Heaven and Earth” opened the door for an entire generation of emotionally-dependent, self-empowered actresses who broke the female archetype that dominated the first three decades of Egyptian cinema. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-arts#5357 Wed, 10 Aug 2011 10:35:55 +0200 http://www.eturbonews.com/24347/seychelles-brings-back-beauty-pageant The Seychelles islands have announced that they are bringing back the Miss Seychelles beauty pageant next year. This will open the door for them to partner with the annual Miss Southern African International and the Miss World Pageant. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-arts#5191 Tue, 2 Aug 2011 11:00:31 +0200 http://www.sagoodnews.co.za/newsletter_archive/kzn_youth_choir_achieves_extraordinary_success_in_international_antonio_vivaldi_choir_competition.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign The KwaZulu Natal Youth choir consists of students between the ages of 14 and 24 years from all over the province of KwaZulu-Natal. This choir is the oldest youth choir in South Africa and was founded in 1968 by Mr Hein de Villiers. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-arts#5037 Wed, 27 Jul 2011 15:15:07 +0200 http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ijBtFZ08OmsLpDoUeg-YSLO-p1Sg?docId=036d849b7eed4fd4ab3516b948a1f7ad Egypt's antiquities minister, whose trademark Indiana Jones hat made him one the country's best known figures around the world, was fired Sunday after months of pressure from critics who attacked his credibility and accused him of having been too close to the regime of ousted President Hosni Mubarak. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-arts#4705 Mon, 18 Jul 2011 09:57:48 +0200 http://www.playbill.com/news/article/152794-Sundance-East-Africa-Theatre-Lab-Launches-July-17-Passing-Stranges-Stew-Among-Advisors Sundance Institute Theatre Program begins its 2nd annual East Africa Theatre Lab July 17 in Kenya. Tony Award winner Stew, Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage and Liesl Tommy serve as artistic advisors. Sundance will develop four works through July 31 on the island of Manda, located off the coast of ... http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-arts#4676 Sun, 17 Jul 2011 07:47:54 +0200 http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/8272219/giant-airbags-save-egypts-oldest-pyramid Airbags have finally been used to prop up a 4700-year-old Egyptian pyramid 19 years after it was damaged in an earthquake. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-arts#4553 Wed, 13 Jul 2011 10:05:51 +0200 http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/07/12/Africa.Writing.Caine/index.html Zimbabwean NoViolet Bulawayo has won the Caine Prize for African Writing for her short story "Hitting Budapest." The story follows a group of six starving Zimbabwean children, one of whom is pregnant at age 10, as they go about fending for themselves. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-arts#4535 Wed, 13 Jul 2011 07:40:49 +0200 http://mg.co.za/multimedia/2011-07-11-wide-open-walls The Wide Open Walls initiative headed to western Gambia, where renowned international street artists worked with communities to turn their villages into living art projects through mural painting, art workshops and longer-term projects. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-arts#4498 Mon, 11 Jul 2011 17:26:01 +0200 http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20110706/NEWS/110709882/1078&ParentProfile=1055 Liberian artist Fato Wheremongar stood in front of a collection of his paintings last week at The Artist Tree gallery in Breckenridge and asked the crowd if they would like to hear the story behind any of the pieces. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-arts#4390 Thu, 7 Jul 2011 12:43:11 +0200 http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/sci/2011-07/05/c_13965383.htm U.S. and Italian archeologists have discovered the oldest description about an Egyptian king (about 3, 200 BC) in Egypt's Aswan, Egyptian Antiquities Minister Zahi Hawass said on Monday. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-arts#4287 Tue, 5 Jul 2011 12:32:40 +0200 http://www.npr.org/2011/07/03/137402744/artists-street-artists-defend-egypts-revolutionary-imagary Egyptian companies and multi-nationals are now using images of and references to the youth-led uprising that toppled autocrat Hosni Mubarak in advertisements to sell internet service, mobile phones, soft drinks, tourism and more. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-arts#4221 Mon, 4 Jul 2011 10:29:34 +0200 http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5i9cPYV1TmXr1VSIoFxYFKtCSUqWA?docId=CNG.929e9c254b0a78971b4b58b7a3749ac8.2b1 Egyptian and French archaeologists have unearthed a 2,700-year-old stone gate belonging to Nubian King Shabaka while digging near Luxor's Karnak temple, the ministry of antiquities said on Sunday. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-arts#4214 Mon, 4 Jul 2011 10:19:45 +0200 http://mg.co.za/article/2011-06-28-mandela-on-life-the-universe-and-everything He was a man who moved a nation with his words. And through his words he helped a nation move towards democracy. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-arts#4082 Tue, 28 Jun 2011 16:02:06 +0200 http://www.sudantribune.com/UNESCO-declares-World-Heritage,39355 UNESCO declared on Saturday that the archaeological sites of the Island of Meroe, 200km north of Khartoum, are to be declared World Heritage site. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-arts#4070 Tue, 28 Jun 2011 10:41:29 +0200 http://ww.gq.nodes.co.za/style/fashion-news/632641.html Influenced by a Masai blanket from his Kenyan childhood, Louis Vuitton's style manager, Kim Jones, took the s/s 2012 collection on an exotic journey. Travel formed a central theme to the West-meets-Africa show. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-arts#4018 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 09:46:24 +0200 http://www.bayimba.org/ http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-arts#3972 Sat, 25 Jun 2011 08:40:55 +0200 http://www.sagoodnews.co.za/south_africa_in_the_world/cape_town_short-listed_for_world_design_capital_2014_.html Cape Town has received the welcome news that the city has been short-listed for World Design Capital 2014. From a team of 56 hopefuls, Cape Town now stands alongside just two other world cities, Dublin and Bilbao, in the race to earn the World Design Capital title, which will be ... http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-arts#3859 Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:51:52 +0200 http://mg.co.za/article/2011-06-17-a-majestic-experience “It’s the Cinema Paradiso of Zanzibar,” said Martin Mhando, the director of the annual Zanzibar International Film Festival, which takes place on the Tanzanian island next month. “Cinema Paradiso was heavenly compared with what’s there.” http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-arts#3803 Mon, 20 Jun 2011 12:35:28 +0200 http://www.forimmediaterelease.net/pm/5037.html The Carnival in Seychelles has the world's best carnivals parade alongside the cultural groups from the Community of Nations under the theme of the “Melting Pot of Cultures." http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-arts#3633 Tue, 14 Jun 2011 15:38:31 +0200 http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,6545184,00.html Sansal's work has been banned in his home country for its political themes, although the author is considered Algeria's most internationally acclaimed writer. http://www.essentialafrica.com/ea-drum-it/drum-arts#3580 Mon, 13 Jun 2011 10:00:00 +0200