Frontpage Latest News
Subscriptions
Countries
Central AfricaEast AfricaHorn of AfricaIndian OceanNorth AfricaSouthern AfricaWest AfricaAfrica / World
Topics
Agriculture - NutritionCulture - ArtsEconomy - DevelopmentEnvironment - NatureGay - LesbianGender - WomenHealthHuman rightsLabourMediaPoliticsScience - EducationSocietyTechnologyTravel - Leisure
Satire
From Behind
Archives
By Country By Topic Chronological
Currencies The Company
Press Releases Partner Media Contact Us
Subscriptions
  Vea esta sección en español  

Music feature articles
 


Current afrol News Top Stories
» China to cement new role in Africa
» Zimbabwe crisis solved, for now
» Equatorial Guinea polls begin, with little hope of change
» "Uganda AIDS prevention threatened"
» São Tomé to establish state oil company
» It's confirmed: New ocean to split Ethiopia
» South African mortality crisis overcome
» "Send Central African leaders to ICC"
» Dengue epidemic paralyses Cape Verde
» Algeria "not affected by global crisis"

Africa | Kenya
Society | Culture - Arts | Health
African music awards to boost war against AIDS

afrol News, 9 October - Music stars at this weekend’s MTV Africa Music Awards (MAMAs) in Nairobi, Kenya, can have a significant impact in educating young people about HIV and changing their behaviour, a top UNAIDS official said today.

Read more

Liberia
Politics | Human rights | Society | Culture - Arts
Young Liberians to audition for top music award

afrol News, 7 October - Young people across Liberia will get their shot at fame as national auditions get under way for a televised music contest in the West African country, the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) announced today as it helped launched the event.

Read more

World | Zambia
Economy - Development | Culture - Arts | Society
Zambian artist competing for $83,000 in Norway

afrol News, 9 September - A Zambian artist, Anawana Haloba of Livingstone, along with three other young artists - the Norwegians Ida Ekblad, Marius Engh, and Lars Laumann - have been nominated for the StatoilHydro art award 2009. The US$ 83,000 prize will be awarded in Oslo, Norway in December.

Read more

Cameroon
Politics | Society | Human rights | Culture - Arts
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.

Read more

Algeria | Morocco
Culture - Arts | Society
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.

Read more

» 04.09.2006 - Somali Islamists ban music; "intimidated" top artist agrees
» 03.05.2006 - Zimbabwe govt tries to silence musicians
» 22.02.2005 - Africa gets own MTV channel today
» 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
    Recommend this page to a friend

top of page about afrol News | news | countries | archive | services | feed back | español 

© afrol News. Reproducing or buying afrol News' articles.

   You can contact us at mail@afrol.com