AFRICA
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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". |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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". |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Arts and Africa - BBC African Sevice, London |
The first part of this programme is about Bertha Msora, a Zimbabwean who is an adult educator by profession. She saw an advertisment for a competition for new plays, she wrote one and won the competition though she'd never done any creative writing before. |
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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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Arts and Africa - BBC African Sevice, London |
This programme is about Themba Qabula. A South African who's been a factory worker and in what spare time, he's written poems and plays, composed songs and performed them using the traditions of his ancestores. |
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Arts and Africa - BBC African Sevice, London |
Kofi Anyidoho, whose poem "Akofa" came second in the Arts and Africa poetry awards speaks with Alex Tetteh-Lartey. |
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Arts and Africa - BBC African Sevice, London |
This programme is aout the written word. Poetry, novels, their publishing, as well as their translating. |
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Arts and Africa - BBC African Sevice, London |
The title given to this ambitious programme of cultural events that have revealed the richness and viriety of the atrs of Africa, not only to Londoners but to many people from every part of Africa is 'Africa, Africa'. |
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Arts and Africa - BBC African Sevice, London |
Lucy Duran ofthe British National Sound Archives and Farah Eissa Mohammed a TapeLibririan in the University of Khartoum's Institute of African and Asian Studies talk about popular music in Sudan. |
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Arts and Africa - BBC African Sevice, London |
This edition is about news of an original play for children, photography and Masquerades. |
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Arts and Africa - BBC African Sevice, London |
This edition looks at the diversity of different cultures i terms of music, paintings and sculptures in East Africa. |
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Arts and Africa - BBC African Sevice, London |
This edition concentrates in events happened in Ghana. Firstly, a book launch which took place in Accra. It was quite an occasion; graced by fellow poets, , by music and the Secretary for Culture, the poet Kobena Eyi Acquah. |
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Arts and Africa - BBC African Sevice, London |
This is a major conference called "New Writing in Africa" taken place in London under the joint auspices of the Commonwealth Institute and the Africa Centre. |
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Arts and Africa - BBC African Sevice, London |
The biggest event under the name, "New Directions in African Literature" with the sub title "Continuity and Change" was the most impressive gathering of some of Africa's best known writers. It included Novelists, Poets, Playwrights and Publishers. |