Tag: African
“African Masks”: Basquiat, Warhol and Africa
This is one of the most astonishing and disturbing aspects of the 160 canvases painted together in a record time of two years by Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol: the…
The 2023 Cannes Film Festival invites “the new generation” of African directors
The presence of five African films in the official selection, including two in the running for the Palme d’Or, is the big surprise of the 2023 edition of the largest…
End of the run for South African serial rapist Thabo Bester and his girlfriend
While he was given for dead, Thabo Bester was arrested in Tanzania on Friday evening April 7 while he was probably heading for Kenya, with his partner and accomplice, the…
between Pablo Picasso and African art, a story of inspiration
On April 8, 1973, Pablo Picasso put down his brush for the last time. 50 years later, the Spanish painter leaves behind him an abundant work, rich in tens of…
What posters for the quarter-finals of the African Club Cup?
/ Podcasts / Africa Sports Journal The draws for the quarter-finals of the African Football Club Cups take place this Wednesday in Cairo (6:30 p.m. GMT). Clubs from French-speaking sub-Saharan…
the African assemblies of the Francophonie propose more dialogue
In Côte d’Ivoire, the 2023 parliamentary session opened on Monday, April 3, and as special guests, 25 delegations from Parliaments on the continent attended this official ceremony. Because at the…
India presents its local production of military equipment to its African partners
The Indian government has just concluded a major ten-day military exercise with some 20 African countries, with the aim of strengthening its strategic ties with the continent. But also to…
A small African country made a bold decision and banned the import of used clothes – the results are now visible on Italian catwalks
KIGALI, RWANDA Last summer, a Rwandan Moses Turahirwa31, watched the clothes she designed fly by on a catwalk set up in the courtyard of a neoclassical villa in Florence, Italy.…
The amapiano, this South African electronic music conquering the world
It is a musical style which is spreading all over the planet and which comes to us from South Africa: the amapiano. This electronic musical genre is partly responsible for…
In the Central African Republic, the Wagner group is eyeing French Castel beer
Black night. The flames rise in the heights of Bangui, the Central African capital. It is one o’clock when four hooded men, slender and athletic, in military jackets and trousers,…