How many foreigners came to Botswana and devoted their times in learning Setswana and ended up teaching the language and publishing in it?" wonders the octogenarian Beauty Magula.
THE 2008 Miss Uganda regional finals ended on a rather tepid note as a mixture of misfortunes wound up this year's campaign. But another girl of the soil won herself a place in the national finals set for August to
THE Pearl of Africa Music (PAM) Awards 2008 kicked off in earnest with the first regional launch at St Andrews Gardens in Fort Portal town last Saturday. The launch in Fort Portal showed the fans' continued support of the awards.
Last Friday Uganda's all-girl singing group, the Obsessions, celebrated nine years on the local stage and following the trend of havingan international act grace local concerts, Jamaican born Collie Buddz was the guest performer of the night. The crowd turn
In the last few years Ugandans have seen some of the largest gospel names come to this land to preach and perform. But this weekend a few award winning worship artistes and two renowned preachers stepped on a stage, to
When politicians talk about culture, one had better pack one's rucksack and run, because it means the beginning of unofficial censorship. (Zimbabwean writer, Dambudzo Marechera in a 1986 interview with Alle Lansu).
Schoolboy Gomotsegang Rapoo has been setting the music scene ablaze with his guitar playing skills. The diminutive Rapoo is a Form V student at Gaborone's Livingstone private secondary school.
Princess Asha Naava is back and partying might another of the things she will have to take on. Boy, oh boy she can boogie! Last Friday was at least manifestation that the former contestant could do less with the princely
TRUE to the old adage, work without play makes Jack a dull boy. Travel agents from all over the country did play during a Brussels Airlines award ceremony at Protea Hotel.
The second Ugandan contestant to leave the reality show music academy wants to do collaborations with Master Blaster of the Teacher track fame, writes Edgar R. Batte.
I get some pleasant tasks: covering food, drink and travel -- among far more stressful duties -- at The Standard and sister paper, Zimbabwe Independent.
Another Zimbabwe Electricity Shortage Authority (ZESA) "brown out" on Wednesday 21st May cancelled the preview. Not enough power for the projectors or even the DVD player.
The new liquor regulations are too broad-based as interventions will not curb alcohol abuse, Lehlohonolo Matsela, Group Managing Director for Kgalagadi Breweries, has said.
ENISIA Mushusha, actress and Mambokadzi founder, will this week conduct a workshop for dance groups in Harare to inculcate a sense of professionalism among artists.
UPCOMING artists have been urged to abstain from pre-marital sex as a way of fighting the HIV and Aids pandemic, Music Crossroads of Zimbabwe co-ordinator Mathias Bangure has said.
Uganda got a share of the DStv limelight last week outside the inserts Gaetano Kaggwa does on M-Net's Studio 53. The crew of S'kika (airing weekly on Channel O Mondays 9 p.m, Tuesdays 7 p.m, Saturdays 1 p.m and Sundays
The Minister of Tourism, Culture and National Orientation, Prince Adetokunbo Kayode (SAN), at the weekend said that the death of three prominent musicians and entertainment icons within a week would create a big vacuum in the industry.
Barry Lungu will once again be gracing the walls of Richard Rennie Art Gallery with paintings for his next exhibition "Scenes From My Travels" which opens this week on Thursday.
