Interviews
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Arts and Africa - BBC African Service, London |
This programme is all about good news for lovers of African music and good news for lovers of African Theatre. There is authentic Mtshingo sound that comes from two foot length of plastic pipe played at a special music workshop in Botswana. |
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Arts and Africa - BBC African Service, London |
In this programme Kwaku Mensa-Bonsu has been telling Alhassan Manu about his intentions in writing the play "The Trial of Kwame Nkrumah" and why he sets it in the underworld. |
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Arts and Africa - BBC African Service, London |
Alex Tetteh-Lartey of Arts and Africa had the chance of a sneak preview and to hear from a young English film director called Cyril Frankel who arrived in South West Uganda to make a documentary film for the British Crown Film Unit unwrap the story of a film 'Man of Africa' that has taken thirty |
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Arts and Africa - BBC African Service, London |
Arts and Africa announced that it is only a matter of weeks till we learn which Commonwealth poet is the ovwerall winner of of the prestigious British Airways Commonwealth Poetry Prize. |
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Arts and Africa - BBC African Service, London |
This programme will be considering Wole Soyinka's achievement and what it means for African Literature after it was announced that the 1986 Nobel Prize for Literarture has been awarded to the Nigerian writer, best known as a playwright and poet. |
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Arts and Africa - BBC African Service, London |
The main part of this programme gives a chance to hear the remarkable talents of a South African artist Gcina Mhlophe, whose work springs from the tradition of her people but which is entirely 20th century in its content and intention. |
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Arts and Africa - BBC African Service, London |
This programme is about two classics of West African fiction, one new, one very long-establisherd. Television viewers in Nigeria have been serttling down to a long-running serialised version of Chinua Achebe's famous novel "Things Fall Apart", published back in 1958. |
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Arts and Africa - BBC African Service, London |
This programme commences with a mistery voice. The puzzle is not whose voice but where? The language is Kimbudu, at least a form of Kimbudu. But the community who use this language live not in Angola where it comes from, not in Africa at all, but in Brazil. |
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Arts and Africa - BBC African Service, London |
This programme takes us to Africa's Indian Ocean Islands. The first stop is Zanzibar, but the sound is distinctly North African and is called Tarab music recorded by Paula Park. Originally came to Zanzibar in the nineteenth century from Egypt. |
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Arts and Africa - BBC African Service, London |
At the College of Music in Zimbabwe's Capital, Harare, a formal setting for a mixture of traditional and modern sounds is there that a new depaertment for African music is being set up. The man behind it is Ephat Mujuru, one of Zimbabwe's greatest Mbira players. |
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Arts and Africa - BBC African Service, London |
This programme is about three women who are in different stages in their careers. One woman an internationally famous potter and the other two just embarking on careers as musicians. Magdalene Odundo a Kenyan-born British studio potter, who lives in Farnham, Surrey. |
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Arts and Africa - BBC African Service, London |
This programme takes us straight to the troubled heart of South Africa and the people who write about it. 'The Urchin' by Can Themba is part of a collection of short stories 'Hungry Flames' published and edited by Mbulelo Mzamane, the South African writer himself. |
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Arts and Africa - BBC African Service, London |
In this programme, Fiona Ledger update Alex Tetteh-Lartey who was away for a month that she went to the Annual Fringe Festival in Edinburg to look at things African. |
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Arts and Africa - BBC African Service, London |
Ben Okri start this programme, with one of the highlights of Zimbabwe's theatre calender, actually from the opening of 'Nansi Le Ndoda'. He introduced a correspondence from Arts and Africa, Fiona Lloyd who talked with Cont Mhlanga, actor, director and master of ceremony about his play. |
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Arts and Africa - BBC African Service, London |
Arts and Africa correspondence, Fiona Lloyd has been following news from Zimbabwe about the Zimbabwean National Theatre Competition. For the last 27 years, this has been an annual event, attracting some of the most talented actors, playwrights and directors in the country. |
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Arts and Africa - BBC African Service, London |
This episode is a difficult subject, where Ben Okri is interviewing Okpu Eze, a contemporary Nigerean painter and sculptor. He was largely self-taught as an artist before recieving formal education and training at the Technical Institute and Trade Centre, Enugu. |
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Arts and Africa - BBC African Service, London |
Ben Okri, a Nigerian-born British poet and novelist, is bringing a special edition of 'Arts and Africa' from the Commonwealth Arts Festival in Edinburg. It has been the third event of its kind, and was planned as one of the greatest gatherings of talent from 49 countries. |
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Arts and Africa - BBC African Service, London |
There is popular art that is painted for all the world to see and there is the printed short story that can be a private, intimate encounter between writer and reader. This episode is talking talking about them both, when Ben Okri, a Nigerian-born British poet and novelist. |
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Arts and Africa - BBC African Service, London |
This episode looks back with pleasure and respect to one of Africa's great musicians, Ebeneezer Calender and his Maringar Band. A late legendary figure from Freetown, Sierra Leone. There is every chance that his music is going to be heard loud and clear for many years to come. |
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Arts and Africa - BBC African Service, London |
Gcina Mhlophe isn't only a performing member of the theatre company, she is also an author of the play 'Have you Seen Zandile'. It is her first and in it she plays most of the characters, including Zandile as an eight year old child. |