09/5/2014
The leadership of Boko Haram must think they have hit the jackpot. The abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls in northeast Nigeria has been denounced by U.S. President Barack Obama and UK Prime Minister David Cameron. That has given them all the publicity they crave. Their movement is now the top item on all global …
Cape Verdean singer Mayra Andrade releases her much anticipated fourth album this month. Lovely Difficult is the artist’s most international album to date. It’s also the most eclectic – both linguistically and musically. Sung in Cape Verdean Creole, ...
24/4/2014
Review: ‘We Are Proud to present…’ – The set of ‘We Are Proud to present…’ being just a map of Nambia outlined on the floor of the Bush Theatre looks unpromising at first, and the first few minutes of this brilliant production come across as a ve...
23/4/2014
African Literary Accounts of the Genocide in Rwanda April marks 20 years since the genocide in Rwanda, and since then the horrific events of 1994 there have been an array of literary and factual accounts. In Writing and Filming the Genocide of the Tutsis in Rw...
22/4/2014
Very good news on Wednesday when Barclays Bank agreed to give Dahabshiil, the Somali remittance company, sufficient time to find another way of transferring money from the UK and elsewhere to Somalia before closing its account with them. Up to $2 billion a yea...
22/4/2014
In March 2014, Gateway for Africa interviewed Sudanese chanteuse Amira Kheir, about her latest album Alsahraa, her musical inspirations, methods, feminism and what kind of tea she likes. It’s our first ever audio interview! Interview: Amira Khei...
17/4/2014
– Top 5 young African designers to watch in 2014 MAKI OH Nigerian women swear designer Amaka Osakwe is the creative force behind Maki Oh whose design ethos is to challenge the prevailing notion of beauty. Aroused by a strong sens...
16/4/2014
New Release: Lion City by Dirtmusic What’s Dirtmusic? According to the record label, borrowing from Tim Winton’s fictional character Luther Fox’s words: ‘Dirtmusic is anything you could play on a verandah’ This simple statement already gives us so...
15/4/2014
I don’t know why I keep them, but I have never been able to just throw them away. Two small green folded cards found at a road block in Rwanda in 1994. “Karita Y’Ibiranga Umuntu – Carte d’Indentite Republika y’u Rwanda”. The name on one is Mugema...
10/4/2014