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Let’s unite and celebrate our unique African identity.” said Deputy Minister Sotyu. Ms Sotyu is leading a delegation of South African artists which include Berita, Chef Citron Khumalo, Zwai Bala, Mafikizolo, Mbuso Khoza, Brenda Mtambo among many others as they showcase the country’s artistic talents and to create an inter-cultural and inter-generational dialogue between Ghana and South Africa....

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Sisters open downtown clothing store

Rocky Mount Telegram 17 Oct 2018

at 120 Tarboro St. in the former location of A Plus Tutoring Services ... “We closed at 5 p.m ... Williams said Neema & Co ... The store also showcases Sundaea Noel’s artistic gifts with some paintings ... mainly sells African clothing, which are items normally sold in the Triangle area, as well as handmade jewelry and soap made by them ... Williams, who has always had a love for African fashion, wants to use Neema & Co ... to 5 p.m ... .......

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South Africa:South African Artists 'Humiliated' in Australia Over Heritage Music Performance

All Africa 16 Oct 2018

Local artists are upset at being sidelined at an international event designed to promote South African heritage.In a Facebook post, promoter Beryl Crosher-Segers expressed her frustration that an Australian event on October 14 designed to showcase local culture to an Australian audience .......

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Supporting African women

Hillsdale Daily News 16 Oct 2018

After seeing a performance by Nobuntu as part of the Hillsdale College Professional Artist Series recently, awareness of African women and their families was heightened.The a cappella quintet from Zimbabwe performed at the College Baptist Church, filling the historic building with sounds of traditional Zimbabwean rooted music, Afro Jazz and ......

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Fairlawns to host The Travelling Art Gallery

Independent online (SA) 16 Oct 2018

The Travelling Art Gallery, started by Barbara Lenhard and Florian Gast, is an artists’ initiative to exhibit talented South African artists across the globe ... ....

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Zimbabwe:Ammara Ecstatic About Afrimma Award

All Africa 16 Oct 2018

Songbird Ammara Brown, who scooped the Best Female Artiste (Southern Africa) Award at the fifth edition of the African Muzic Magazine Awards, (AFRIMMA) that were held in Texas last week is on cloud nine .......

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Gina Jeanz, Shekhinah to Headline Red Bull 'African Beats' in Windhoek

All Africa 16 Oct 2018

NAMIBIAN multidisciplinary artist Gina Jeanz is set to headline the Red Bull 'African Beats' music festival due to take place at the Windhoek Showgrounds on 27 October .......

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Vermont city officials vote to move contested mural

Olean Times Herald 16 Oct 2018

Critics have argued the mural fails to recognize the Abenaki, who settled in parts of what later became Vermont, and African Americans. The council plans to send the resolution to mural artist Pierre Hardy . ——— ... ....

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Forgotten South African artist gets a retrospective show

The Philadelphia Tribune 15 Oct 2018

JOHANNESBURG — The abstract work of South African artist Christo Coetzee, who died in 2000, was widely shown around the world, including at a 1961 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York ... Its curators see Coetzee as a stylistic counterpart to some contemporary South African artists who incorporate wire, plastic and other debris in “assemblage” art that explores inequality and other social challenges....

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BMG Acquires Buena Vista Social Club Label World Circuit Records

Billboard 15 Oct 2018

The label was founded in London in the mid-1980s by Anne Hunt and Mary Farquharson, who were then running a touring business that would regularly bring African and Latin artists over to perform in the U.K ... Nick Gold, a London-based African history student and avid record collector, joined the pair shortly after and built the label into one of the ......

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David Goldblatt and the everyday reality of South African racism – in pictures

The Guardian 15 Oct 2018

David Goldblatt and the everyday reality of South African racism – in pictures. David Goldblatt considered himself a documentarian rather than an artist, and the central concern of his work was apartheid....

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Macron says Congo is now ‘epicentre’ of French, not France

Free West Media 15 Oct 2018

He said French should be promoted within international and regional institutions such as the UN, the European Union and the African Union, where "the status of an international language is being forged" ... He said African writers and artists should do more to protect local African languages, while promoting freedom of travel and open borders....

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