PROGRAMME
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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 |
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 |
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 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 |
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 |
In this programme, Alex Tetteh-Lartey introduced poets and their poetry. |
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Arts and Africa - BBC African Service, London |
Alex Tetteh-Lartey introduced a fellow Ghanaian, Saka Acquaye, a one time famous athlete who's also a playwright and composer of music. |
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Hare Krishna Times,Vol 14. May 1980 |
His Divine Grace A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada the founder of the Hare Krishna Movement (I.S.K.C.O.N)........ |
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Magazines: Back to Godhead no.66, Hare Krishna |
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Arts and Africa - BBC African Sevice, London |
In this program, Alex Tetteh-Lartey talk with Ken Saro-Wiwa fom Nigeria about his writing, whether it's poetry, plays or new novel. |
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Arts and Africa - BBC African Sevice, London |
This programme is about a group of outsiders experiencing African culture at first hand and enjoying themselves. |
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Arts and Africa - BBC African Sevice, London |
Alex Tetteh-Lartey began this programme with a song of greting from the music of Tanzania, Bagamoyo to be precise, the home of a college of art with an exceptionally strong reputation for music. |
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Arts and Africa - BBC African Sevice, London |
Patrick Quarcoo speak with Jo Mensah, best known in Nigeria but born in Ghana. He speak about the music of Chief Ebenezer Obey. |
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Arts and Africa - BBC African Sevice, London |
Todays theme is church music of the Youruba in Nigeria. Dr Akin Euba, the Nigerian Musicologist as well as the pianist of note. He taught African culture at the Universities of Ife and Lagos where he's the Director of the Centre for Cultural Studies. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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 |
Kofi Anyidoho, whose poem "Akofa" came second in the Arts and Africa poetry awards speaks with Alex Tetteh-Lartey. |