Culture - Arts | Travel - Leisure
Africa prepares for carnival season
afrol News, 1 March - Africa's many carnivals are not the most internationally known, but Cape Verde, Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique carnivals have long traditions. Newcomer Seychelles this year offers a tourism-adapted carnival.
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Lesotho
Economy - Development | Culture - Arts | Politics
Lesotho's China-made parliament delayed
afrol News, 16 November - Lesotho's new parliament building, financed by a Chinese grant in 2005, has to be inaugurated later than planned. Both the Chinese contractors and works by Lesotho utilities had made mistakes.
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Burkina Faso
Culture - Arts | Society
Burkina Faso's "crazy opera" is rising
afrol News, 19 October - Even architect Diébédo Francis Kèrè "thought it was a joke" when he was commissioned to build an opera village in the Burkinabe countryside to host the African parallel of Germany's famous Bayreuth Festival. Not any more.
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Mali
Science - Education | Culture - Arts | Society
Timbuktu ancient document centre opening
afrol News, 27 May - Mali's famous old city of Timbuktu this weekend will see the opening of a new building housing and restoring a collection of an estimated 700,000 ancient manuscripts, recognised as one of Africa's principal cultural heritages.
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