Contemporary African Culture
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Angélique Kidjo is still moving the world
The Beninese legend discusses the inspiration behind her latest album HOPE!!, honouring her mother while continuing a decades-long journey of musical exploration and connection
Zawadi Yamungu: The African Dramaturg
Blending jazz, folk and indigenous instrumentation, Zawadi crafts a sound that reconnects audiences to heritage while confronting the politics of the present
Simphiwe Dana sings the room into stillness
Moya is her quiet insistence that excellence, faith and African high art can hold grief without spectacle