Yaba Badoe is a documentary filmmaker of dual Ghanaian-British nationality with many years experience making social issue and art documentaries for the main terrestrial channels in Britain. A graduate of King’s College Cambridge, she worked as a civil servant in Ghana before becoming a General Trainee with the BBC. Among her TV credits are: Black […]
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Mark was born in Johannesburg in 1964, and graduated from Yale University in 1987 with a BA magna cum laude. His books include Defiant Desire: Gay and Lesbian Lives in South Africa (1994), which he edited with Edwin Cameron; Portraits of Power: Profiles in a Changing South Africa (1996), a collection of his celebrated profiles from the Mail & Guardian; Thabo Mbeki:
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Doreen Baingana is a Ugandan short story writer and editor. Her book Tropical Fish won the 2006 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, best first book, Africa Region, and the AWP Award for Short Fiction (US). She won a Washington Independent Writers Fiction Prize and has twice been a finalist for the Caine Prize for African Writing. She was managing Editor at Story
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Godfried Donkor is a Ghanaian artist, living and working in London who has exhibited in Cuba, Mexico, the US, Europe and Africa. He is known primarily for his work in collage and has been described as similar to Keith Piper and Isaac Julien in his output. Some of his pieces depict boxers, such as Jack Johnson and Mohammad Ali. Donkor has been the subject
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Leila Aboulela is a Sudanese author and the first winner of the Caine Prize for African Writing. Her latest novel, The Kindness of Enemies, according to the literary blog, Brittlepaper, ‘reprises her acclaimed success at pushing the boundaries of contemporary forms of African storytelling.’ Leila’s work has received critical recognition and a high profile for its distinctive
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The Africa Centre is pleased to announce its Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Artist in Residency award recipients. This residency is focused exclusively on highly accomplished scholars, artists, thought leaders, policymakers, and practitioners who share in the Foundation’s mission to ‘promote the well-being of humanity around the world.’ The Bellagio Center wants to enable individuals that
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Now it it’s 10th year, Infecting the City will once again engage the communal spaces of Cape Town’s central business district between the 5 and 8 April 2017. A collaboration between the Africa Centre and the Institute of Creative Arts, the 10th iteration of ITC is firmly focused on making Cape Town a more public city by
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In 2015, we added a layer to our Artists In Residency competition that specifically awarded residencies to mid to late-career African artists who lived on the continent and its diaspora. The response to this addition was encouraging and affirmed the need to cater to this group of artists. As a result, five artists have since
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The process of reviewing and selecting African artists to award our residencies, is an invaluable opportunity to travel through our continent’s beautifully diverse artistic landscape. We are delighted to share a little insight into the each of the seven artists who were recently awarded residencies at our partner spaces all over the world. Mina Nasr
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The Africa Centre is pleased to announce the winners of our 2016 Artists In Residency (AIR) Programme. After receiving over 400 applications from 20 African countries for our general call, we shortlisted 26 artists on behalf of our residency partners. Based on each residency’s specific interests and requirements, they selected the following artists: Mina Nasr
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