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This month Cartoon Movement will begin serializing Army Of God by David Axe and Tim Hamilton...
Source: Cartoon Movement
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When Liberia’s legendry folk singer Yatta Zoe made a blunt remark recently that “Liberians don’t respect artists,”...
Source: The Liberian Journal
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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 the country's burgeoning arts scene.
Source: BBC
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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.
Source: PanOrient News
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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 theme Tambanuka (Express Yourself), and some of the artists expected to perform include Roki, Stunner, Alexio Kawara, Chikwata 263, King Shaddy, Edith Weutonga, Free Man, Baba Shupi among others.
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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.
Source: mimeta
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“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.
Source: Al-Masry Al-Youm
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The BBC News website wants your digital photographs of Africa to feature in themed galleries.
Source: BBC
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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.
Source: Mail & Guardian Online
/11/
Africa's moviemakers are challenging Hollywood's tired vision of poverty and war. We should hear their stories
Source: The Guardian
/12/
A court in Nigeria has ordered that popular comedian Baba Suwe - detained on suspicion of drug trafficking - be released on bail by Friday.
Source: BBC News
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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.
Source: AFP
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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.
Source: Artslink
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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 come back.
Source: The Star
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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.
Source: Africa Review
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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.
Source: thedailynewsegypt.com
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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.
Source: eTN
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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.
Source: South Africa - Good News
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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.
Source: AP
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