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Tyla, Ringo Madlingozi and Sipho Makhabane to receive prestigious awards at the 2024 Samas

Independent online (SA) 21 Oct 2024

Her impressive achievements include a Grammy for Best African Music Performance, a BET Award for Best International Act and Best New Artist, as well as a VMA for Best Afrobeats ... A post shared by South African Music Awards (@thesamas_).

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Honoring the Life and Legacy of Richard David Weedman: A Visionary Leader in Behavioral Health ...

GetNews 21 Oct 2024

Together, they curated a remarkable collection of Pan-African and Pan-American art, Vibrant Visions, and collaborated on countless artistic projects ... About the Richard David Weedman African Maritime Research Center.

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Proposal honord abolitionist George T. Downing with a statue in Newport. Here's where

The Newport Daily News 21 Oct 2024

She is also the artist behind the Enslaved Africans’ Rain Garden, a series of five sculptures along the Hudson River in Yonkers, New York, depicting five of the first enslaved Africans to be manumitted – freed – by law in the United States.

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Proposal honors abolitionist George T. Downing with a statue in Newport. Here's where

The Providence Journal 21 Oct 2024

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Join the ‘Sip and Paint’ trend to unleash the artist in you

Independent online (SA) 21 Oct 2024

These events are usually held in cafés, art studios, or outdoor venues, where the budding artists can unwind with a glass of wine in one hand and a paintbrush in the other ... South African cruise season.

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ZULO: The trailblazing hitmaker redefining South African hip hop

Independent online (SA) 21 Oct 2024

His latest offering “Smaak To Love (Lamza)” landed in my inbox, and unbeknown to me, I was reintroduced to the artist that is ZULO ... what doesn't work, to make the most South African music he can make.

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Economic Development Assembly canvasses US$120bn to tackle Africa’s poverty

B & FT Online 21 Oct 2024

At the in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, it was announced that more than 100 eminent African and international CEOs, world leaders and artists have signed the Abidjan Accord, an urgent call to G20 ...

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Hew Locke’s subversive interrogation of the British Museum collection

Financial Times 20 Oct 2024

The artist’s pairing of unfamiliar African, Asian and South American objects with his own sculptures reveals dark and complex stories ....

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Ghanaian super producer Kwamzy is set to release ‘Ghost’

Business Ghana 20 Oct 2024

A product of international collaboration between South African and Ghanaian artists, ‘F Them UP’ channels the raw, brash energy of Durban’s dance floors ... Kwamzy is no newcomer to the scene ... .

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Senegalese artists show support for Palestine with graffiti

Anadolu Agency 19 Oct 2024

The Panafrican Graffiti Artists Collective (RBS) and the Anti-Apartheid African Artists group collaborated to create graffiti on the busiest street in the Ouakam neighborhood to raise awareness about the attacks in Palestine and Lebanon.

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Coca-Cola Nigeria Unveils Wozzaah Zero Sugar

This Day 19 Oct 2024

Coca-Cola has also partnered with renowned Nigerian artist Lojay, a prominent figure in the Afrobeats genre that represent a generation that celebrates and redefines African culture through music and art to endear the new products to young Nigerians.

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Guide to the Arts 2024: Our picks for the best classical concerts this season

Sun Sentinel 19 Oct 2024

Another stimulating collaboration between the Arsht Center and acclaimed South African visual artist William Kentridge, “The Great Yes, The Great No” is part play, part chamber opera set on a 1941 sea voyage from Vichy France to Martinique.

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Sabelo Mlangeni: The grey and green of trauma

Mail Guardian South Africa 18 Oct 2024

The dream of being embraced by these cultural capitals fuels a particular trajectory for African artists, one that involves not just geographic movement, but the emotional and cultural negotiation of identity.

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Kenyan court blocks deputy president appointment

France24 18 Oct 2024

And we speak to South African fine artist Reggie Khumalo about his ...

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Nicki Minaj Credits Her “Barbz” Fanbase For Bringing Stan Culture To Hip-Hop

Vibe Magazine 18 Oct 2024

16), the Young Money vet explained how she set the standard for rap artists to connect with their fans ... Even artists in other countries. Some of the African artists that I love, when I would look into them, they would have names for their fanbase.