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Arts and Africa - BBC African Sevice, London

Drama and Theatre are well established in Nigeria. Dr, Biodun Jeyifo of the University of Ife published a book on African drama called "The Truthful Lie: Essays In A Sociology of African Drama". Dr.

Arts and Africa - BBC African Sevice, London

Zimbabwean film-maker, Claude Maredza talks about his new film called "Harurwa". Harurwa is a rare incect found in the forests of the Bikitoarea in south east Zimbabwe.

Arts and Africa - BBC African Sevice, London

The National Theatre in Uganda with the help from the British Council, set up a community theatre workshopin the eastern town of Mbale.Teachers, health workers, social workers and civil servants came together  for a month to work out techniques for making community theatre more effective.

Arts and Africa - BBC African Sevice, London

This programme talks about two different approaches to the role and provision of the arts in Uganda.

Arts and Africa - BBC African Sevice, London

This programme is about the regular guest on the programme, John Collins from Ghana who talks about his new album and his music.

Arts and Africa - BBC African Sevice, London

Ruth Schaffner, the owner and director  of Watatu Art Gallery talks about  her plans for the gallery.

Arts and Africa - BBC African Sevice, London

This programme is about two differing views of freedom of expression in Ghana from young Ghanaian academic, Appiah Sackey and Kodjo Crosben, a poet.

Arts and Africa - BBC African Sevice, London

Dr.

Arts and Africa - BBC African Sevice, London

This programme is about a month long season of events focusing on the Islands of Mautatius, the Seychelles and the Indian Ocean which covers many aspects of the region's culture including music at London's Africa Centre.

Arts and Africa - BBC African Sevice, London

Arts and Africa had the pleasure of speaking with Afewerk Tekle, Ethiopia's outstanding and internationally acclaimed artist, who was givin the honourary title Maitre Artiste returned home to Addis Ababa from a tour of the United States where he was raising funds for famine relief in Ethiopia.

Arts and Africa - BBC African Sevice, London

This programm is a theatrical experience, where Maxwell Tembo, a Zambian actor opening the show in Harare, Zimbabwe. He also introduced the Kenyama Travelling Theatre Group who brings theatre to the people instead of the people to the theatre according to Tembo.

Arts and Africa - BBC African Sevice, London

This is the musical creation of David Fanshawe's "African Sanctus", which is one of several religious compositions that are played on the sound-track of a film called "African Calvary".

Arts and Africa - BBC African Sevice, London

This is a visit to the Africa Centre Art Gallery in London where a rather extraordinary exhibition is taking place. Ethiopia is photographed and filmed as a land of famine.

Arts and Africa - BBC African Sevice, London

Two playwrights, one in Zimbabwe, Stepheen Chifunyise and the other in Ghana, Efo Kodjo Mauwgbe talk about the way they are treating certain social problems in their plays.

Arts and Africa - BBC African Sevice, London

Jimmy Katumba one of the best known voices from Uganda opened this programme with a song called 'Tube Bafumbo'.  Then the programme speaks with two people who have been attending the exhibition that is called "The Art that Survives: Uganda 1960's to 1980's.

Arts and Africa - BBC African Sevice, London

This is a Special programm marking the tenth anniversary of Alex Tetteh-Lartey as a presenter. Therefore, he goes down the memory lane of his past experiences with various prominent guests in "Arts and Africa".

Arts and Africa - BBC African Sevice, London

At the School of Performing Arts at the University of Ghana, Joseph Kobom who comes from the Dagarti people of northern Ghana plays and teaches many modern performing skills and traditional ones, he also plays the Xylophone, an instrument that is especiall loved by northerners.                   

Arts and Africa - BBC African Sevice, London

This programme is about congratulating a Ghanaian actor David Ato Dontoh, who's been given the 1984 Best Actor Award by the Entertainners, Critics and Reviewers Association of Ghana.

Arts and Africa - BBC African Sevice, London

This one is about the display of drumming skills by Maitre No-no's drummers at the Centre des Jeunes, Kinshasa, Zaire showing what they can do.

Arts and Africa - BBC African Sevice, London

This programme is about Wole Soyinka's work, "A Play of Giants" published by Methuen. The play was staged for the first time at the Repertory Theatre of the University of Yale in the United States and directed by Wole Soyinka himself.

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