<b>Percy Zvomuya</b> speaks to South Africa-based Ivorian writer and academic Veronique Tadjo about the crisis in Côte d’Ivoire.
<i>Silver Pony</i>, Cassandra Wilson’s new album, is an accomplished CD.
The Stone Angels exhibit of Zimbabwean sculpture in Greenside, Johannesburg, is a welcome return to real Shona art.
Mengestu’s clean, poetic prose is served best when he’s telling stories and not when he’s trying to engage in narrative tricks.
To generalise, people think their choice of music is cool and everyone else should listen with them.
It’s not just social networks that are helping to take down regimes in North Africa, it’s also a youth fuelled by popular culture and ad slogans.
The prickly artist who wrestles with God wonders if she inherited a subversive gene from her trade-union parents.
Two notable books by two remarkable women.
"The history of football is a sad voyage from beauty to duty," wrote Eduardo Galeano in <i>Football in Sun and Shadow</I>.
<b>Percy Zvomuya</b> examines two works at this year’s Dance Umbrella that explore the meaning of the word.