Nairobi, March 9 -- After a three-year hiatus that started after its last festival held in Kampala in August 2019, the Writivism literary initiative has announced a short list of writers for the 2023 ... Read More
Nairobi, March 3 -- Rituals of Home by Mildred Kiconco Barya from Uganda this year received an Honourable Mention at the Jacobs/Jones African-American Literary Prize. Honourable Mention is a distinct... Read More
Nairobi, March 2 -- The Mapping Report on Artistic Freedom in Tanzania cites cultural protectionism, political interference, lack of harmonisation of laws and regulations, and the lack of professional... Read More
Nairobi, March 2 -- Dahomey, by Franco-Senegalese director Mati Diop won the Berlin International Film Festival's Golden Bear prize for best film. The documentary follows the journey of 26 plundered ... Read More
Nairobi, Feb. 24 -- Films from Kenya and Tanzania are among the eight projects that have been selected to the Pitch and Finance Forum of the 2024 Durban FilmMart (DFM), Africa's premier co-production ... Read More
Nairobi, Feb. 24 -- The South Africa/ Ireland-based animation studio, Triggerfish, which produced Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire, a Disney+ Original ten-part sci-fi collection of premium original films,... Read More
Nairobi, Feb. 19 -- Global civil society alliance Civicus has added jailed Burundian journalist Floriane Irangabiye to its Stand As My Witness campaign, which advocates the release of wrongly imprison... Read More
Nairobi, Feb. 17 -- Tanzanian authors Philipo Oyaro and Fatuma Salim have won the top prizes at the 2023 Safal-Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature competition. Oyaro won the first prize in... Read More
Uganda, Feb. 10 -- Female farmers under their umbrella Bakuseka Majja Farmers Group in Mayuge District, eastern Uganda, say since they started growing the new biofortified, fast-maturing, resilient, h... Read More
Nairobi, Feb. 10 -- Young Peter Oloya was abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels in Northern Uganda and conscripted into its ranks as a child soldier. Oloya was only 11 in 1994, when the... Read More