In the heart of Accra, skaters have their lair. In 2016, Surf Ghana is born, a surf, skateboard and art collective, offering a space for meeting and sharing around the culture of skateboarding to the young people of the Ghanaian capital.
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As part of the Lomé+ exhibition, commissioned by the Togolese architect and anthropologist Sénamé Koffi Agbodjinou, the rapper Elom20ce presents the documentary Aux Impossibles Imminents, a series of 6 portraits of inhabitants of the Togolese capital, which illustrate one of the titles of his new album ‘Amewuga’.
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On December 9, the festival Dialogues de Corps will open its doors for a new edition : Nos Solitudes Partagées (Our Shared Lonliness), at the Choreographic Center La Termitière in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. In these times of uncertainty and restrictions, the festival is adapting and this edition will have a special resonance with the presentation of mainly solos. An ode to all isolated bodies and a message of resilience and hope.
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Aftown is a beautiful Ghanaian initiative: an online music listening platform that promotes African music and is adapted to the African market. The goals of the Aftownmusic platform are to support artists from the continent and make their music accessible to fans.
Telling the story of Africa. Making Africa. Promoting Africa. For Africans and by Africans. To showcase African music in its plurality on the web. These are the wishes of Aftown.
The best-known streaming platforms are not designed for the specificity of the African ecosystem where music is however omnipresent and the scene prolific. On the continent the internet access is often expensive and its quality is not always optimal. Moreover, in cities as well as in the countryside, credit cards or PayPal are far from being the most popular methods of payment.
In response to this observation, and backed by its experience in distribution and support for artists, Technation Ghana, TIC Ghana and the BBnZ Live label are launched the Aftown streaming platform in June 2017.
Aftown is an online music listening and downloading service.
The platform offers exclusively African music, labeled or independent artists: afrobeats, pop, gospel, house, high life, reggae … Aftown reveals and promotes talents beyond the few mainstream artists featured on traditional platforms.
Artists can sell their music on the marketplace and Aftown even offers workshops to help them make the most of it.
In addition, it is committed to remunerating artists as fairly as possible and makes their income available immediately.
This is a real development in a context where piracy is the law. Aftown contributes to the education of fans by inviting them to support the artists and to invest so that they can make a living from their art.
With free and premium services, Aftown allows fans to get the music they want faster and discover new songs.
Users can pay with the mobile money system, using their phone credit, which is widely used on the continent.
The platform also strives to minimize data consumption, a key factor in a territory where the Internet is one of the most expensive in the world and rural areas are poorly connected.
We can only applaud this initiative made in Africa, which offers a unique service. And the Aftown team is ambitious with plans to expand into Nigeria and Senegal. Remaining African and developing more content, especially videos… To be continued!
Discover all of Aftown’s services and listen to music from the continent here
It is a temple of dance in the heart of Ouagadougou.
The Choreographic Center ‘La Termitière’, born almost 15 years ago, pursues its ambition to develop contemporary dance on the continent. This year the CDC announces the construction of a new studio and the rehabilitation of the outdoor theater.
This past September 5th, a mind-blowing art space was inaugurated in the city of Tamale. The internationally known Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama has extended the Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art – opened last year – with the Red Clay studio.
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Neho is our latest discovery: a podcast about dance in Ghana. Host Nuumo Adjetey Klufio gives the microphone to dancers, artistic directors, teachers, choreographers, studio owners… An excellent way to enter the Ghanaian dance world, discover what is happening, how arts are developing and what it means to be involved in the dance sector today in Ghana.
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At a time when the present is testing for artists and the future uncertain, it is essential to unite. To unite to support each other, to discover, to inspire and get inspired, to share. From this desire, the initiative of a group of choreographers is born: Le Cercle, International Network of Choreographers – Africa and Diaspora.
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Giving voice to feminists from the African continent through an online and offline space. This is Eyala’s mission.
Thanks to her blog, Françoise Kpeglo Moudouthe talks feminism in Africa today, and beyond, feminism.
Through a historical research in combination with an autobiographical testimony, Emma Dabiri addresses slavery, decolonization, culture, capitalism, sorority, cultural appropriation, self-confidence….
Indeed, Afro hair, beyond a genetic inheritance, a physical attribute or a style, has always had a social, political, cultural, chosen or imposed meaning.