Each year, the Africa Centre, provides artists with the unique opportunity to spend four to six weeks fully dedicated to developing their craft. This year through partnerships with residency programmes in Australia, Brazil, India, Italy, Kenya, Spain, Tanzania and the United States we are proud to offer thirteen unique residencies for our 2015 AIR
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Originally published in Scribbles from the Den Dibussi Tande Imbolo Mbue. (March 15, 2016). Behold the Dreamers: A Novel. New York: Random House, 384 pages. Formats: Ebook, Audio, Hardcover. Available on pre-order on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. It was destined to be a debut novel like no other from the
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Kwabena Agyare Yeboah Kwakye left Ghana right after his high school education. In this novel, he set out to write something intimately Ghanaian, something that he might have not experienced in a long while. Or something he would have to second-guess. Maybe something that came from his memory. This something would have to be born
a boy stands as lost as a strand of pubic hair found in the sponge of lovers on a nuptial night his story is a note locked in jaws on this night, he becomes a river jittered gone like shadows on walls Kwabena Agyare Yeboah lives and writes from
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Sanya Osha What are the moral decisions involved in the act of taking a photograph that captures extreme human anguish and moments of demeaning death (or even moments preceding it)? Photo Credit: http://www.thebangbangclub.com/joao-silva.html Largely, between 1990— 94, a tight-knit group of South African photographers sought to capture the last days of the savagery
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Comfort Mussa Tallinn— Estonia: The week long Orient Music festival in Tallinn, Estonia, this year witnessed the active participation of African artists from Zanzibar (Tanzania), Zimbabwe and a media team from Cameroon. Peeter Vahi, the artistic director of Orient Music festival says amongst the many music festivals hosted in Estonia yearly there are
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[bandcamp width=350 height=588 album=3926583073 size=large bgcol=ffffff linkcol=0687f5] FYFYA WOTO is a young Anlo (Ghanaian) woman hungry to be loved. Caught in a compromising situation with her Caucasian lover in a time of slavery and divide, she is brought before a tribunal at which she must save not only herself but also her lover. The
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Dzekashu MacViban The notoriety of the web serial keeps growing as years pass, and more independent directors are drawn to the internet as a medium which provides experimental and more targeted dissemination models for streaming shows which are cheap and not as risky as big budget productions. Joss Whendon, ‘the George Lucas of television’ and
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At Daggers Drawn ©Dante Besong Dante Besong is a self-taught Cameroonian visual artist. He began to express his passion for the art through drawings in his early childhood and in college, he drew cartoons for the school’s quarterly magazine. He was later selected to represent the University of Buea during the University Festival of
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With her mother’s death still heavy on her heart, Onyinye’s father makes arrangements for her to marry the person of his choice and the situation goes out of control. Okafor Emmanuel Tochukwu Onyinye levered her naked self out of bed and walked in nervous trots round her room. She got to her
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