Africa | Burkina Faso
Culture - Arts
First "African Poetry Market" opens in Ouagadougou
afrol News, 4 March - On the fringe of the pan-African Fespaco film festival in the capital of Burkina Faso, a four-day poetry marketplace was opened today. The first-ever "African Poetry Market", which organisers hope to repeat during forthcoming Fespaco festivals, is dedicated to the issue "Poetry and Development".
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Africa | South Africa
Society | Culture - Arts
New book celebrates Miriam Makeba
afrol News, 17 December - The second-ever auto-biography of Miriam Makeba, South Africa's famous singer, composer, actress, humanitarian and women rights activist, has been launched with success in Johannesburg. More open than in her 1988 biography written while in US exile, Ms Makeba now says: "I am free to what I want to say." Numerous black and white photographs of the artist underline her colourful life.
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South Africa
Culture - Arts
Nobel Literature Prize for John Coetzee
afrol News, 2 October - The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2003 is awarded to the South African writer, John Maxwell Coetzee, "who in innumerable guises portrays the surprising involvement of the outsider," according to the Swedish Nobel Committee.
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Kenya
Human rights | Culture - Arts | Society
Kenyan Catholics strike against African literature
afrol News, 5 September - A lobby group operating under the wing of the Catholic Church in Kenya wants three famous African novels withdrawn from the school syllabus, saying they are "morally objectionable" and sexually "exciting". The campaign meets protest from Kenyan novelists, teachers and freedom of expression groups.
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