Tanzanian reggae and dancehall artist Bayo The Great returned to Dar es Salaam after winning an award at the International Tourism Film Festival Africa (ITFFA). Held from 3 to 6 June in Sandton, Johannesburg (South Africa), the...
Culture
From its ancestral rhythms to its contemporary innovations, African culture is a living testimony to resilience, creativity and unparalleled diversity.
Next Saturday 14th June, Santa Catalina Park in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria will host the 1st Africa Day Fest, a celebration that will highlight the cultural diversity of the African continent. From 12:00 to 19:00, the...
An essential figure of post-colonial thought, the Kenyan Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o leaves behind a literary and essayistic oeuvre marked by the firm conviction that decolonisation cannot be completed without a profound cultural revolution. His commitment to the...
The legendary Senegalese musician Youssou Ndour staged an emotional artistic reunion with Beninese singer Angélique Kidjo at the opening of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's new African gallery in New York. The evening, charged with symbolism and cultural pride, was...
The world of literature bids farewell to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, one of the great thinkers and storytellers of the 20th and 21st century. A Kenyan writer born in 1938, he dedicated his work to questioning the legacies of colonialism and reclaiming the...
This Saturday, 31 May, at 20:00 hours, the Teatro Leal will host a powerful stage show that combines documentary, music and live theatre to raise awareness of human trafficking. Under the title "dtproject Valientes", the show closes the...
The Nigerian film industry surprises the world once again with "Seven Doors", the six-part series that marks a new milestone in the evolution of Nollywood. Available on Netflix, this ambitious production directed by and starring Femi Adebayo - who...
While Europe continues to cleanse its conscience with symbolic gestures of cultural restitution, the art galleries of the old continent have found a new form of domination: the control and exploitation of contemporary African art. In contrast to classical colonial plunder,...
Casa África presented the programme of activities for Africa Lives 2025, an event that commemorates every 25th of May the birth of the current African Union, an event known internationally as Africa Day. This date commemorates the founding in...
The sudden death of Koyo Kouoh, aged 57, has left a deep void in the African and international art scene. Cameroonian by birth, educated in Switzerland and based in Senegal and South Africa, Kouoh was a key figure in the...