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Peter Culshaw meets Cesaria Evora, the singer who thrives on misery.
Baaba Maal isn’t the first musician to bring traditional African rhythms to a Western audience — but he’s one of the best writes, Robin Denselow.
This is a powerful but gruelling film, one willing to make considerable demands of the viewer writes, Shaun de Waal.
Between true life and cinema,” said the late Senegalese director Djibril Diop Mambety, “there is only one step.” Then he added, wryly, “As for me, I’m not sure in which direction that step must be taken.” There seems little that is uncertain, however, about his last film, The Little Girl Who Sold The Sun. And, […]
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THE Nigerian subsidiary of Italian oil group ENI on Tuesday signed an agreement with the government to build a 450-megawatt power plant in southern Nigeria, an official statement said. The gas-fired plant, to be built in Kwale in Delta State and expected to cost around $350-million to build, would be expected to come on stream […]
ABOUT 200 angry South African shack dwellers on Wednesday occupied a piece of land in Cape Town’s Khayelitsha township, emulating a large-scale land invasion outside Johannesburg earlier this month. Police said the squatters moved on to the private land during the afternoon and demanded the government build them houses. The land invaders measured out plots, […]
THE west African country of Burkina Faso hopes to launch a “green revolution” through a new company that will try to augment agricultural production and improve food security. Burkina Agriculture Minister Salif Diallo said the new entity Soprofa, a joint venture between the government and Swiss group Aiglon, “would greatly contribute in eradicating rural poverty […]
A TEENAGE boy with a cricket bat chased away five gunmen attacking his father at their Pretoria home on Wednesday, The Star newspaper reported on Thursday. “The 16-year-old boy hit five gunmen for a six,” the newspaper said. Police representative Inspector Percy Morokane said the intruders forced open burglar bars at around 2:00am on Wednesday, […]