Centre for African Literary Studies
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Arts and Africa - BBC African Service, London |
This episode began with the news of one of the most prestigious cultural awards in Africa, the Noma Award for Publishing in Africa, which was established in 1979 by the Japanese philanthropist, Shoichi Noma, and is open to all African writers and scholars whose work is published in Africa. |
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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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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 |
The studio guest Lucy Duran, of the British National Sound Archives, is in this programme to give her personal account of a musical journey through the Gambia. She has been to Mali and brought along the recordings of grand, twenty-one stringed instrument, the kora. |
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Arts and Africa - BBC African Service, London |
Those people who think that cartoons are only amusing or only political, then they have to think again after a visit to an exhibition of cartoons by Ghanatta (or Yaw Boakye as he is really called). He uses his brush and his pen to draw a personal view of life in Ghana and the rest of Africa. |
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Arts and Africa - BBC African Service, London |
This episode is about a writer Shimmer Chinodya, a Zimbabwean novelist whose first book, 'Dew in the Morning' was warmly recieved both in Zimbabwe, the authors home country, and internationally. |
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Arts and Africa - BBC African Service, London |
Gcina Mhlophe isn't only a performing member of the theatre company, she is also an author of the play 'Have you Seen Zandile'. It is her first and in it she plays most of the characters, including Zandile as an eight year old child. |
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Arts and Africa - BBC African Service, London |
This episode looks back with pleasure and respect to one of Africa's great musicians, Ebeneezer Calender and his Maringar Band. A late legendary figure from Freetown, Sierra Leone. There is every chance that his music is going to be heard loud and clear for many years to come. |
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Arts and Africa - BBC African Service, London |
There is popular art that is painted for all the world to see and there is the printed short story that can be a private, intimate encounter between writer and reader. This episode is talking talking about them both, when Ben Okri, a Nigerian-born British poet and novelist. |
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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 |
This programme is about three women who are in different stages in their careers. One woman an internationally famous potter and the other two just embarking on careers as musicians. Magdalene Odundo a Kenyan-born British studio potter, who lives in Farnham, Surrey. |
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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 to Africa's Indian Ocean Islands. The first stop is Zanzibar, but the sound is distinctly North African and is called Tarab music recorded by Paula Park. Originally came to Zanzibar in the nineteenth century from Egypt. |
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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 |
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 |
The main part of this programme gives a chance to hear the remarkable talents of a South African artist Gcina Mhlophe, whose work springs from the tradition of her people but which is entirely 20th century in its content and intention. |
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Arts and Africa - BBC African Service, London |
This programme will be considering Wole Soyinka's achievement and what it means for African Literature after it was announced that the 1986 Nobel Prize for Literarture has been awarded to the Nigerian writer, best known as a playwright and poet. |
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Arts and Africa - BBC African Service, London |
Arts and Africa announced that it is only a matter of weeks till we learn which Commonwealth poet is the ovwerall winner of of the prestigious British Airways Commonwealth Poetry Prize. |
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Arts and Africa - BBC African Service, London |
Alex Tetteh-Lartey of Arts and Africa had the chance of a sneak preview and to hear from a young English film director called Cyril Frankel who arrived in South West Uganda to make a documentary film for the British Crown Film Unit unwrap the story of a film 'Man of Africa' that has taken thirty |