DUBAI — If fringe can be this big, then better be on the fringe. Designed to complement the emirate’s annual art spectacle, Art Dubai, the Bastakiya Art Fair (BAF) is leaving no stone unturned to be a major spectacle in itself – albeit for the lesser mortals.
BACK in the 1950s, Braamfontein, a suburb perched just north of Johannesburg's Central Business District, was celebrated for three key cultural institutions -- the Civic Theater, the Alexander Theater and the University of the Witwatersrand -- which helped keep the quarter artsy, intellectual and mildly integrated even during the era of apartheid. Today, that troika still forms the backbone of ...
WASHINGTON TWP — If you’ve entered a Jewish home or house of worship, you may have noticed the mezuzah that hangs on the door post.“A mezuzah is a piece of Jewish ritual art that adorns the front door and all of the interior doors of an observant Jewish home,” artist Gary Rosenthal explained. “It contains a prayer that reminds Jews of the covenant between man and God. Part of that prayer says ...
Rumours about Nigerian president Yar'Adua, violence in Jos, controversy over what happened to aid money during Ethiopia's famine in the 1980s and International Women's Day all feature in Sokari Ekine's round-up of the African blogosphere.
"GRASS ROOTS" TRAVELING EXHIBIT, "Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art," featuring baskets and artifacts from South Carolina and Georgia. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, Alexandria Black History Museum, 902 Wythe St., Alexandria. $2. 703-746-4356 or http://www.alexblackhistory.org .
The guy responsible for bringing Bill Gates to speak in Des Moines last October is Frank Swoboda, who is 29 years old and one of four people under 35...
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NAIROBI, Jan 6 (Reuters) - Kenya and Uganda plan to build a new railway from the Indian Ocean port of Mombasa to cope with increased trade between the east African countries and their landlocked neighbours, officials said on Tuesday.
MOGADISHU, Jan 6 (Reuters) - A roadside bomb killed a Ugandan soldier in Somalia's capital on Tuesday and masked gunmen murdered a man working for the United Nation's World Food Programme in the southwest of the Horn of African nation.
NAIROBI, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Ethiopia's Ogaden rebels warned Malaysia's Petronas [PETR.UL] on Tuesday they would not tolerate oil exploration in their remote eastern region, saying it would link the company to war crimes by the Ethiopian military.
BUJUMBURA, Jan 4 (Reuters) - Burundi and Uganda said on Sunday they wanted their troops serving in the African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia to be allowed to take action against insurgents.
MOGADISHU, Jan 3 (Reuters) - At least seven people were killed in fighting between rival Islamist groups in Somalia on Saturday, one of the factions said.
ADDIS ABABA, Jan 2 (Reuters) - Ethiopia said on Friday the withdrawal of its troops was under way from Somalia, where they have been helping the transitional government fight an Islamist insurgency for the past two years.
MOGADISHU, Jan 2 (Reuters) - Ethiopia has started pulling its troops out of Somalia, where they have been helping the Western-backed government fight an Islamist insurgency for the past two years, a senior official said on Friday.
MOGADISHU, Jan 2 (Reuters) - A convoy of trucks loaded with Ethiopian soldiers, mattresses and other equipment was seen leaving Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Friday, witnesses said.
