As Rwanda applies this week to join the Commonwealth, the international grouping dominated by ex-British colonies, both its membership application and a number of recent books on Central Africa are focusing new attention on the current government's human rights record.

Book: King on the Throne

Vice President of Visual Art Association of Nigeria (VATAN), Prince Adeyemi Kosoko has decried the attitude of state governments towards the provision of visual materials to secondary and primary schools in the country.

Since achieving independence in 1963, Kenya has existed as a classic, patronage state, ruled with an iron fist by a corrupt political elite. Kenya has also become nearly 80 percent Christian, and in this book, Paul Gifford explores the country's

Breeze from Tunisia" (Brises tunisiennes) is the title of Syrine Ben Moussa's forthcoming show which the Tunisian singer will give on December 5, at the Arab World Institute in Paris.

In Africa, names by which a person is addressed or by which a town is known have deeper meaning than they look on the surface. In a number of cases, names given to an African child are either due to

This week we have three housemates up for possible eviction come Sunday. Initially, housemates had nominated Zimbabwe's Itai, Malawi's Mzamo and Angola's Emma. But Namibia's Edward, who is head of house this week, saved Mzamo, replacing her with Nigeria's Kevin,

THE International Images for Women Festival opened last Friday with Reliable System, the highlight of the evening.

IN 1989 Germans woke up in the morning to find a wall that was dividing the West and the east demolished.

A group of four German hip hop artists, on Monday night rocked their Kigali fans at Goethe-Institute, Social Recreational Centre (CSR), Kacyiru.

The Director General of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC), Mr. William Ampem- Darko, has promised the people of the Volta Region, to enhance broadcast activities of both radio and television to all parts of the region, and expressed regret that