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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.

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.  

Arts and Africa BBC African Service, London

Xiluva is a song from a stage show that's been running with great success in Maputo the capital of Mozambique. Jose Pinto de Sa is a writer who's been with the theatre group since it was started explained to Lois Browne in Maputo that, the making of Xiluva was very much a group activity.

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. 

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.

Arts and Africa BBC African Service, London

Alex Tetteh-Lartey in this programme had the opportunity to spend some time chatting with a visitor from Khartoum - Farah Eissa Mohammed, tape librarian in the University of Khartoum's Institute of African and Asian Studies. His particular interest is traditional music. 

Arts and Africa BBC African Service, London

Alex Tetteh-Lartey in this programme had the opportunity to spend some time chatting with a visitor from Khartoum - Farah Eissa Mohammed, tape librarian in the University of Khartoum's Institute of African and Asian Studies. His particular interest is traditional music. 

Arts and Africa BBC African Service, London

Alex Tetteh-Lartey in this programme had the opportunity to spend some time chatting with a visitor from Khartoum - Farah Eissa Mohammed, tape librarian in the University of Khartoum's Institute of African and Asian Studies. His particular interest is traditional music. 

Arts and Africa BBC African Service, London

Alex Tetteh-Lartey in this programme had the opportunity to spend some time chatting with a visitor from Khartoum - Farah Eissa Mohammed, tape librarian in the University of Khartoum's Institute of African and Asian Studies. His particular interest is traditional music. 

Arts and Africa BBC African Service, London

Alex Tetteh-Lartey in this programme had the opportunity to spend some time chatting with a visitor from Khartoum - Farah Eissa Mohammed, tape librarian in the University of Khartoum's Institute of African and Asian Studies. His particular interest is traditional music. 

Arts and Africa BBC African Service, London

Alex Tetteh-Lartey in this programme had the opportunity to spend some time chatting with a visitor from Khartoum - Farah Eissa Mohammed, tape librarian in the University of Khartoum's Institute of African and Asian Studies. His particular interest is traditional music. 

Arts and Africa BBC African Service, London

Alex Tetteh-Lartey talks to Hukwe Zawose, a man with a remarkable ability, with him came fellow Tanzanian, Emmanuel Makala. Hukwe Zawose play the Maramba, the largest sanza or thumb-piano. he has been playing together with his fellow musicians from Bagamoyo College in Tanzania. 

 

Arts and Africa BBC African Service, London

Arts and Africa leaves the studio for the experience of African Village life, just out into one of London's parks called Holland Park which is the setting for a three week festival descriptively called "African Music Village"

Arts and Africa

This programme is a unique exchange between the artists of Sierra Leone and an English city, and the new African music which continues to take London by storm. 

Arts and Africa

Alex Tatteh-Lartey looks at a new type of traditional music from South Africa drawing on musical instruments from all over the Continent and an innovative approach to traditional story-telling by the Tiv people of Eastern Nigeria.

Arts and Africa

In this edition, Alex Tetteh-Lartey looks at new music from West Africa. He speaks to the rising star of Nigerian "Juju", Segun Adewale and an old friend of Arts and Africa, John Collins, an Englishman living in Ghana.

Arts and Africa

Alex Tetteh-Lartey taking people down memory lane in this special edition of Arts and Africa, where Nick Owen interview Eldad Walakira about the subject of Theatre in Kampala, Uganda.

Arts and Africa

Alex Tetteh-Lartey and Arts and Africa talk to Klevor Abo, a music administrator with the International Music Council and Senior Research Assistant at the University of Ghana's Institute of African Studies about Amu Festival Music which was named after Dr.

Arts and Africa

Alex Tetteh-Lartey introduces a musician, Lazarus Tembo from Eastern Zambiain who had a one-on-one interview about his life and career with Martin Lumb. 

Phoenix Fair 1988

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