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Cameroon
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Cameroonian songbird jailed for rioting

afrol News, 10 October - Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC) has condemned three-year prison sentence and excessive fine imposed on well-known Cameroonian singer-songwriter Lapiro de Mbanga (real name Pierre Roger Lambo Sandjo) who was arrested earlier this year for allegedly being part of anti-government demonstrations.

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Algeria | Morocco
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Algerian singer Khaled "assaulted in Morocco"

afrol News, 6 June - The Algerian press reports that world famous raï singer Khaled, an Algerian national, was assaulted by spectators while holding a concert in the Moroccan city Meknes. The assault is seen in connection with Khaled's waving of a Western Sahara flag at a recent concert in Spain.

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Somalia
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Somali Islamists ban music; "intimidated" top artist agrees

afrol News / Awdal News Network, 4 September - Maryan Mursal, Somalia's top night club performer in the early 1970s and currently a patriotic voice admired by Somalis in the Diaspora, says that she is fully in support of the banning of music by the Somali Islamic Courts and urges all Somali artists to quit singing and performing drama. Her opinion causes shock among other Somali cultural personalities.

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Zimbabwe
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Zimbabwe govt tries to silence musicians

afrol News / The Zimbabwean, 3 May - The Zimbabwe government, running scared in the face of mass anger at the economic hardships caused by its failed policies, is desperately trying to stifle any independent voices - including those of musicians and artists. The latest victims of its heavy-handed crack-down on freedom of expression are award-winning musician Hosea Chipanga and South African DJ Cleopas Monyepeao.

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Africa | South Africa
Society | Culture - Arts

Africa gets own MTV channel today

afrol News, 22 February - The US music and entertainment broadcaster giant MTV today launches the first-ever pan-African music television channel. The Johannesburg-based 'MTV Base' aims at putting "African artists in the spotlight" and hopes to reach an audience of 1.3 million households in sub-Saharan Africa.

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» 03.02.2005 - Cape Verde's Cesária Évora receives prizes
» 17.12.2004 - New book celebrates Miriam Makeba
» 21.10.2004 - Cape Verde mourns Creole singer Ildo Lobo
» 13.10.2004 - "Alcohol ban behind Lesotho arts festival failure"
» 12.06.2004 - Miriam Makeba honoured at US-Africa event
» 09.02.2004 - Grammy for Cape Verde's Cesária Évora
» 29.07.2003 - Senegalese singer to raise AIDS awareness
» 18.07.2003 - Cape Verdean singer becomes WFP ambassador
» 19.05.2003 - South Africa's DJ Khabzela in AIDS polemics

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