Arts & Books

The title of Francis Nyamnjoh’s 'Married but Available' (MBA) is both inviting and intriguing. Being MBA as opposed to having an MBA!

We are looking in at a dinner party at the home of the head of the department of English at the newly created University College of Ibadan in Nigeria. At the dinner table was the entire faculty. The year is 1948.

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Part I: Introduction by Madeleine Grieve, director of the Stockholm International Poetry Festival, and Ngwatilo's richly melodic poem on exile, belonging, identity, goat meat....

Mwenda Ntarangwi, associate professor of anthropology at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, compiles this welcome ethnography of East African popular music.

This book review takes the form of an extended commentary highlighting some of the book's important issues by way of discussing the author's theory, narrative and analysis.

I had hoped with all my heart that neither the Egyptian nor the Algerian team would reach the World Cup finals that are to be held next year in South Africa.

Badilisha! Poetry X-Change ° produced by the Africa Centre°, is an international poetry project based in Cape Town, South Africa.