Bloke and His American Bantu, inspired by Bloke Modisane and Langston Hughes, will run in Johannesburg from February 16-26, 2022. The February 17 performance will be followed by a panel discussion featuring Sello Maake kaNcube, Dr Siphiwo Mahala, Dr Hannah Sadiki, and moderated by Time Modise. The University of Johannesburg in association with the Sello […]
Lola Shoneyin’s The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives and Wole Soyinka’s Death And The King’s Horseman are going to Netflix. The announcement was made on June 12, 2020. Work from two of the continent’s most beloved writers is set to make an appearance on Netflix. This was announced by Netflix Nigeria who is in […]
Vincent R Ogoti launched his debut play A Shadow In The Sun at the National Museum of Kenya in Nairobi on August 16, 2019. On August 9, a new play A Shadow in the Sun, co-directed by Vincent R. Ogoti and Kevin M. Mosigisi played at the University of Nairobi Traveling Theatre. The play which […]
Zippy Agatha Okoth’s Oops Zippy! From The Diary of a Divorced Kenyan Woman launched at the Kenya National Theatre in Nairobi on June 5, 2019. Dr Zippy Agatha Okoth or Zippy Okoth is many things. The academic is a lecturer of film and theatre arts at Kenyatta University, founder of the Lake International Pan African […]
Niq Mhlongo’s short story Nailed is set to make it on stage at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg, South Africa in February. Nailed is a short story from the Soweto Under The Apricot Tree short story collection. Niq Mhlongo isn’t unfamiliar to followers of the African literary scene. He emerged in 2004 with his debut […]
The Sanaa Theatre Awards 2018 winners were announced at a colourful ceremony at the Kenya National Theatre in Nairobi on December 3, 2018. The Sanaa Theatre Awards recognise excellence in the field of theatre and the performing arts in Kenya. The awards, founded by George Orido in 2013, have celebrated some of the best names […]
The Sanaa Theatre Awards 2018 nominees were unveiled at a ceremony at the Kenyan National Theatre in Nairobi on Friday, November 23, 2013. The winners will be announced at a ceremony on December 3, 2018. The Sanaa Theatre Awards are an award scheme recognising excellence in the field of theatre in Kenya. The awards, founded […]
Lola Shoneyin’s novel The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Lives returns to stage this June. This adapatation has been written by Rotimi Babatunde and is directed by Femi Elufowoju Jr. The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives is a scandalous, engrossing tale of sexual politics and family strife in modern-day Nigeria. Baba Segi has three […]
The Kenya National Theatre in Nairobi is set to reopen on Saturday the 29th August with Prof Ngugi Wa Thiong’o and Prof Micere Mugo as special guests. The Kenya National Theatre has a long history as the home of the artist in Kenya going back to opening in 1962 during the county’s troubled “emergency”. It […]
Ugandan superstar singer Philly Lutaaya was introduced to many of us in a documentary Alone in which he shares his experience as a man suffering from Aids in 1990. I watched the documentary of the man who had died in 1989 as a teenager in Nairobi and I have to say that it affected me […]
