PROGRAMME
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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. |
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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 |
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 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 |
This programme looks at the dazzling oil paintings of the Ghanaian artist Dr Ablade Glover. Dr Ablade Glover trained both in England and in America. |
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Arts and Africa - BBC African Sevice, London |
This edition is about a traditional music by Alhaji Dan Maraya, one of the best known and most highly regarded of Nigerian musicians. He is a Hausa from the north of the country. |
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Arts and Africa - BBC African Sevice, London |
This programme looks at an English artist who goes to Malawi and a Malawian artist who goes to Britain. Kay Chiromo from Malawi lecures in fine art at the University of Malawi. He told Nick Barker how his artistic career began. |
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Arts and Africa - BBC African Sevice, London |
Seven African bands are taking part in a festival of African music in London. The aim is to dal with the isolation felt by Africa's contemporary artists. They are in need for wider exposure and anxious for contacts with artists in different parts of the world. |
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Arts and Africa - BBC African Sevice, London |
Arts and Africa looks at two films both by women directors. 'Tsiamelo' by Ellen Kuzwayo and Betty Wolpert from South Africa, and from West Indian Island of Martinique - 'Rue Cases Negres' or 'Black Shack Alley', the first feature film by the West Indian director Euzhan Palcy. |
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Arts and Africa - BBC African Sevice, London |
This edition looks at the work of Alhaji Dan Maraya, who is one of the best known and most highly regarded of Nigerian musicians. Mostly concentrating on a traditional musical form at the service of a very contemporary message. |
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Arts and Africa BBC African Service, London |
In this programme we have two political poets. They could be described as political poets but they could scarcely be more different. Poemd by one of them are to be found in just about every anthology of Pan-African poetry. He's the South African writer and political activist, Dennis Brutus. |
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Arts and Africa BBC African Service, London |
Alhaji Dan Maraya is one of the best known and most highly regarded of Nigerian musicians.He's a Hausa from the North of the country, and he's won his reputation with nothing more than an utterly simple stringed instrument and the force of his own wit and personality. |
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Arts and Africa BBC African Service, London |
There is a signiture tune that is played in West Africa. It is played by the Mandinka of Senegal, The Gambia, Western Mali. Alex Tetteh-Lartey speak with Mamadou Suso, the kora player. |
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Arts and Africa BBC African Service, London |
This programme looks ar the pulsating rhythm that accompanies on of Zimbabwe's numerous traditional dance troupes and the considering the state of health of these groups. Also looks at the Zimbabwe International Book Fair. |