Fri 19 Nov Bakery Artrage Complex, Northbridge, Perth, Sat 20 Nov Metro Theatre, Sydney, Sun 21 Nov The Hi-Fi, Melbourne, Tue 23 Nov Visy Theatre, Brisbane see more below: Afrobeat royalty Femi Kuti and his 16 piece strong band, The Positive Force will visit Brisbane for the first time. Returning after Womadelaide performances in 2007, [...]
Sunday 21 November 2010 The Arts Centre in association with Multicultural Arts Victoria, present, Visible Celebrate 5 years of Visible this November at the Playhouse. Visible will showcase original contemporary music by Melbourne musicians from Ethiopia, Congo, Senegambia, Ghana and Zimbabwe. Emerging local artists from diverse backgrounds including Blak Roots, Akoma Beat, Kundalila, Afro Habesha [...]
RICHARD BONA From Nov 24, Sydney, Melbourne & Adelaide The electrifying Cameroonian bassist and singer Richard Bona is coming to Australia with his band for the very first time. This is destined to be a wonderful, genre-bending tour that takes in Sydney and Melbourne before finishing up at the famous Adelaide International Guitar Festival which is curated by [...]
Sydney 22 September | Melbourne 24 Sep | Canberra 28 Sep Thomas Mukoya is an award-winning Kenyan photojournalist based in Nairobi. A Reuters photographer since 2004, his images have given the world glimpses of Africa’s beauty and tragedy. Through his photography Thomas has documented many of Africa’s humanitarian crises, showing the circumstances of refugees and [...]
A Sydney Ideas public lecture at the University of Sydney TELLING AFRICAN STORIES IN THE MEDIA, Thomas Mukoya, Kenyan photojournalist African stories rarely appear in the Australian media and, when they do, are most often focused on war and violence interspersed with the occasional animal-interest story. Is there Africa-fatigue among western media with regard [...]
Ryde-Eastwood Leagues clube 117 Ryedale Rd. West Ryde, Saturday 6pm, 2nd October 2010. The ZimAid Dinner Charity Concert is an annual event where we raise money for the children’s homes in Zimbabwe. In the last two years we have raised money to ship clothes to Rotary Club in Zimbabwe. The Rotary Club looks after several [...]
The Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies and Sydney Centre for International Law invite you to attend: Power, Politics and Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda, Seminar and Book Launch with Dr Phil Clark from the University of Oxford. Monday, 27 September 2010, 6-7.30pm, 5.45pm registration. Faculty Common Room, Level 4, Sydney Law School, New Law Building, [...]
This year our headliners include: * Senegal’s great BAABA MAAL – performing on both Saturday & Sunday nights, with his full band (which includes the fabulous Mansour Seck!). Exclusive to the Global Carnival, Baaba won’t be playing anywhere else in Australia, and he hasn’t been here since 1999! * MULATU ASTATKE – legenadary Ethiopian ethio-jazz [...]
A blog by Phillip Nyakpo You’ve probably heard former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair in the last few days. It is hard to miss him on the news, as he promotes his new autobiography which also focuses on his time in office, especially the tumultuous days leading to the Iraq war and its aftermath. Blair [...]
