Ben Enwonwu, a Nigerian painter and sculptor. Arguably the most influential African artist of the 20th century, his pioneering career opened the way for the postcolonial proliferation and increased visibility of modern African art.

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.

This programe is about Patrick Mweemba, an artist from Zambia. He sculpts, he prints with a viriety of tecniques and he prints in watercolours. As a young man he earned his living as a bank clerk attending art classes in his spare time.

Alex Tatteh-Lartey begins this programme with music from Mozambique, Nampula Province in the north of the Country. The women choir seem to sing of the pain and suffering that has captured on paper by the Nigerian artist, Obiora Udechukwu and exhibited under the title of "Rhythms of Hunger".

Nigeria isn't only a large and populous nation, but it is also the hoe of culture with strong traditions of drama.

Abdelwahab Hammoudi is an Algerian writer, screenwriter and filmmaker; who's made around a dozen films to his credit and he writes directly in english.

Paddy Brew a Ganaian Poet who began writing poetry in 1975. He's been talking to Patrick Quarcoo about his style and why he has adopted it. While Neville Harms talks with Bai T. Moore from Liberia, who made his name with his dectective story 'Murder In The Cassava Patch'.

"Biko" by Peter Gabriel was a song about the South African Black Consciousness leader, Steve Biko. In 1982 he helped set up WOMAD, the festival of the world of Music, Arts and Dance.

This is about a poem called, "Epitaph for Biafra" by a Nirerian playwright and poet, Ken Saro-Wiwa. The poem is part of the collection entitled "Songs in a Time of War", which largely about the Nigeria Civil War.