A Ugandan music producer has been charged with nine counts of carelessness in connection with the deaths of ten persons after a New Year’s Eve stampede at a performance in Kampala. On Tuesday evening, Abbey Musinguzi, also known as Abitex, […]
A new musical style, Gengetone, captured Kenya’s youth in recent years, holding its own against the tide of Nigerian music flooding East Africa. But a lack of proper business structures around the musicians led to its downfall. Might it be […]
P-Square, a Nigerian afrobeat duo, arrived in Juba on Sunday to play for a Christmas throng at the Dr. John Garang Mausoleum later that evening. A local music promotion organization has asked the iconic twins – better known as Peter […]
On Friday, a film that follows Rebecca Nyandeng de Mabior, vice-president of South Sudan, through the eyes of her daughter Akuol is scheduled for release. Akuol de Mabior, a filmmaker, model, and women’s rights activist, told Capital FM News that […]
The event “Kivumbi Live in Burundi” featuring renowned Rwandan rapper, poet, and lyricist Kivumbi King is scheduled on December 17, 2022, at Buja Arena in Bujumbura. After his successful European tour in April of this year, Kivumbi told The New […]
Thousands of revelers from across East Africa and the world have gathered for Uganda’s Nyege Nyege festival which was allowed to go ahead despite a threat to ban it because of “immorality”. Critics including several MPs and the speaker of […]
Bruce Itahiwacu, alias Bruce Melodie, a Rwandan musician, was detained upon his arrival in Bujumbura, where he was scheduled to perform two gigs. Melodie is being investigated by police after one of his promoters in Burundi accused him of violating […]
The Kenyan drama series backed by the DW Akademie and financed by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development will launch on the streaming platform on July 15. (BMZ). Corruption, rural-urban differences, and women’s responsibilities in society are […]
The YouTube account of one of Africa’s top music singers has resurfaced after being supposedly taken over by hackers, which resulted in its suspension. Diamond Platnumz’s page, which has over 6.5 million members and over a billion visits, was allegedly […]
On Thursday, the “genius” of the Sudanese song, Sudanese musician Abdel Karim El Kabli, passed away after an artistic career spanning 60 years, at the age of 90. Al-Kabli entered the intensive care unit in a Michigan hospital in the […]
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