The first time I saw the girls in lingerie behind their windows, I was stunned… it was a cultural shock on a massive scale.

Yinka Shonibare MBE, says his piece is a celebration of London’s immense ethnic wealth, giving expression to and honouring the many cultures and ethnicities that are still breathing precious wind into the sails of the United Kingdom.

Chimamanda Adichie, award-winning Nigerian novelist gives a brilliant talk about stories and stereotypes at TED.

The acoustic guitar playing traditional folk Senegalese musician discusses his latest album, “Television”.

Last night at the 51st Grammy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles, United States, “Ilembe”, a tribute album to the South African cultural icon won the Best Traditional World Music Album.

Announcing the death of Village Headmaster’s Chief Kokonsari (real name is Chief Leke Ajao), who died in his home town Iwo, in Osun State of Nigeria. Kokonsari was a popular cast member who played the role of Ifa Priest. The cause of his death remains unconfirmed.
Chief Ajao was a popular actor who featured in different [...]

I am very proud of my heritage and it helps me set myself apart from others.

Although many know the enigmatic Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, the late Nigerian Afrobeat maestro, as a talented musician who used his music to speak to issues in the Nigerian social and political realms, but he didn’t start his career as an activist. In fact, Fela started his career singing songs like this:

This rare footage of Fela [...]

South African writer Henrietta Rose-Innes has won this year’s £10,000 Caine prize for the best short story in English by an African writer. Rose-Innes, whose story Poison is a haunting vignette of the “new” South Africa, received the prize at a ceremony last night at Oxford University’s Bodleian Library.
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