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As Aziz Bouallouchen walks into the foyer of a plush cinema in the Moroccan city of Marrakesh, he is given not a pair of 3D glasses that one can expect to find in many cinemas around the world but a pair of headphones.
Source: BBC
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3 days 10 hours ago
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A small crowd of boys huddled around the open door of a concrete shed turned recording studio to gawk at a trio of Libyan rappers in black baseball caps and oversize hoodies mixing tracks on a wide computer screen.
Source: The New York Times
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by natalie
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(Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)
3 weeks 4 days ago
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A mini-series based on the life of Nelson Mandela is in the pipeline, with producers including the former South African president's grandson.
Source: BBC
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(South Africa)
3 weeks 6 days ago
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Singer Cesaria Evora, dubbed the "Barefoot Diva" for often performing without shoes, has died in her native Cape Verde at the age of 70.
Source: BBC
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by gillian
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(Cape Verde)
6 weeks 6 days ago
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Latina pop star Shakira is scheduled to perform in Egypt on 13 January after the concert dates were postponed several times due to unstable conditions and the parliamentary elections.
Source: Al-Masry Al-Youm
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South Africans will get a closer look at the life of the Mandela family in a new reality show soon to be broadcast, the family has announced.
Source: Times Live
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by Sandiso
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(South Africa)
18 weeks 3 days ago
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The annual Bayimba International festival has surely come of age. With the fourth edition due this weekend at the National Theatre, it proudly brings to you a cocktail of activities that any reveler does not want to miss
Source: The Razor Newspaper
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Eritrean Comedian Tedros Teclebrhan posted a video on youtube reaching to date over 9 Million hits. Meanwhile the media has caught up to his youtube success story.
Source: capitaleritrea
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Martin Jay: Lebanese diva takes on Morocco’s rejected Islamists…but better they run the country than
The cat’s out of the bag in Morocco. The banned Islamic extremist party has made sensational headlines here over the weekend for openly appealing to the political parties for dialogue. And dialogue can only mean one thing, with the elections expected only 12 weeks away: to form some sort of political party to present itself at the ballot box.
Source: Al Arabiya
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President Jacob Zuma jokingly asked the Royal Prince of Manaco to pay labola for his South African bride, Princess Charlene, as he welcomed guests attending the International Olympic Committee session.
Source: Bua News
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(South Africa)
30 weeks 4 days ago
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Moses, these days, still has white hair. But he has no shepherd's staff, nor does he lead his followers with the help of stone tablets and a column of fire.
Source: Mail & Guardian Online
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by Noah
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(South Africa)
31 weeks 4 days ago
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Behind the scenes of the Arab spring since late 2010, hip-hop with a political twist has become a soundtrack to pro-democracy movements across the Middle East and North Africa.
Source: thedailynewsegypt.com
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When a skinny looking, blonde haired Redsan and an equally emaciated Jose Chameleone released the song “Bageya” almost 11 years ago, few would have imagined that the two would grow to be among the biggest names in East Africa.
Source: Daily Nation
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Mulatu Astatke, the godfather of Ethiopian jazz music, is often flying around the world performing sell-out shows so I was lucky to find him at his home in Addis Ababa surrounded by art, conjuring up magic on his vibraphone - which looks like a giant xylophone.
Source: BBC
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by Juliet
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(Ethiopia)
33 weeks 5 days ago
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While the nations of North Africa and the Middle East grapple with a year of existential change, Morocco is proceeding with its tradition of massive music festivals. The granddaddy of them all, Mawazine — held in the Moroccan capital of Rabat — has just concluded. This international festival has provoked controversy, even as it showcases Morocco's unique place amid the upheavals of the Arab Spring.
Source: NPR
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Her life story reads like a Hollywood movie. Full of grand highs and lows, there's no denying that Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's life experiences lend themselves to drama.
Source: CNN
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Pheto, who played the female lead in the Oscar winning movie Tsotsi, will join the cast on 13 June.
Source: Times Live
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34 weeks 4 days ago
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Nicknamed the "Diva of the Desert," Abba was well-known on the world music circuit and beloved in her native Mauritania. Abba belonged to the "Iggawin" troubadour tradition, singing ancient poems and epics set to music. She had a melodic, hypnotic voice and played a traditional Mauritanian string instrument called the ardin.
Source: The Canadian Press
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by gillian
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(Mauritania)
34 weeks 6 days ago
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Mozambique’s Michael became the third Housemate to be evicted from M-Net’s Big Brother Amplified, last night as Bernadina lived to fight another day, in the Tails House.
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by adrian
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35 weeks 5 days ago
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"The struggle against the Mawazine is the struggle for democracy," said Rachid el-Belghiti, a freelance journalist heading the National Campaign to Cancel the Mawazine, a Facebook group with more than 30,000 members.
Source: ABC News
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