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Chef Reuben Riffel brings fire-cooked game to Franschhoek, aiming to double visitors
Flame and Game, backed by R1.5 million from the Western Cape's tourism fund, will add ten jobs and buy from local game farmers, growers and wine farms.
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Forty years on, a book collects Dele Giwa's journalism
Newswatch will present Dele Giwa's Granite Journalism, edited by Ray Ekpu, in Lagos on 19 October, the anniversary of its founding editor's killing.
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Brewer backs Malawi's Mulhako wa Alhomwe festival ahead of this year's celebrations
Chibuku Products has given K3 million to the cultural organisation, part of its long-running support for Malawi's heritage festivals.
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Cairo's film festival turns 50 with 145 films and a tribute to Abderrahmane Sissako
The 47th Cairo International Film Festival runs from 11 to 20 November. Morocco's Nabil Ayouch chairs the main jury, and 850 young filmmakers will take part in its industry days.
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The Headies move to Toronto, and to April 2027
Nigeria's leading music awards will be held over two days in Canada instead of on 23 October.
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Lagos creative showcase adds grants for its most promising businesses
Entertainment Week Africa will fund standout companies from its Deal Room when it returns to Lagos in November.
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South Africa aims for 520,000 technical college students
The government is also funding 700,000 students through its aid scheme this year, and offering full scholarships to China, Germany and Hungary.
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A record 962,832 South Africans sit school-leaving exams
The matric exams began on Tuesday and run to 26 November. Ministers want a pass rate above last year's 88% and have warned against phones in the exam room.
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South Africa's healers are running out of plants
One in ten of the country's plant species is used as medicine, and 154 of them are at risk. A deputy minister wants healers to grow what they pick.
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Lagos court clears way for inquest into death of Adichie's son
A judge has rejected a hospital operator's attempt to stop the coroner's inquiry, ruling that an inquest is a fact-finding exercise in which nobody is on trial.
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Kenya's university lecturers dig in as pay talks collapse
The union says the government returned with almost the same offer it rejected on 1 October, and that the Treasury did not come to the meeting.
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Six in ten Ugandan children never see a pre-school
Primary and secondary school are free. The years before are left to private providers. A UN committee says that should end.
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What a Masekela record says about South Africa's migrants
An essay in Daily Maverick reads the credits of two 1970s albums as a record of what the rest of Africa gave South Africans in exile.
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Nigeria's First Lady calls for an end to child marriage
Marking the International Day of the Girl, Oluremi Tinubu said protecting girls is an economic priority and asked for action, not statements.
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Carthage music festival returns with Tunisia's own stars
After nearly two years away, the festival drew a young crowd with 26 acts from 15 countries, at least 60% of them Tunisian.
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In Kibera, children play chess on boards made from waste
A community project has turned 200kg of discarded plastic into nearly 2,000 chess sets for children who could not otherwise afford one.
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From Luthuli to Pillay: South Africa's Nobel peace line
Navi Pillay is the fifth South African to win the Nobel Peace Prize. The first four were honoured for ending apartheid. She is honoured for what came after.
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A Durban chef moves his poké kitchen into the cowshed of a museum of African art
Thomas Wright started Poké Box from a friend's pantry the week South Africa locked down. Its third home is the Phansi Museum.
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Old skulls reopen the question of sacrifice in ancient Egypt
A new study of 46 skulls from the tombs of Egypt's first kings finds injuries around the time of death in 18 of them.
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The Mthatha designer telling African stories without the clichés
Xolela Madlanga builds her patterns from lines and shapes. She is one of 15 creatives chosen from 700 for a French-backed incubator.
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In Sheffield, a Nigerian singer reads her grandmother's letter on stage
Kayefi's Tales & Tunes brought music, fashion, dance and food together, with the producer ID Cabasa directing the music.
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Sol Plaatje at 150: the writer who gave Black South Africa its first English novel
Born on 9 October 1876, he was a newspaper editor, translator of Shakespeare into Setswana and the first general secretary of what became the ANC. New books are bringing his letters and writing back into print.
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A Nigerian photographer's pictures of the Shrine appear on a new edition of Fela's ‘Zombie’
Bolaji Alonge's photographs of the New Afrika Shrine sit beside Lemi Ghariokwu's original artwork on a limited vinyl release of 1,000 copies.
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Fifty-nine years after the Asaba massacre, Obasanjo asks for forgiveness and the town asks for an apology
At this year's memorial, the traditional ruler of Asaba said his people are ready to forgive but want a sitting Nigerian president to say sorry for the killing of more than 1,000 civilians in 1967.
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Why Raila Odinga's mausoleum has five sides
The pentagon at the family home in Bondo recalls the raised fist that became his signature, and the five-member team that carried his 2007 campaign.
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A Congolese photographer puts the women history left out back in the frame
Pamela Tulizo's series Mababu uses costume and staged scenes to portray African women who resisted slavery and colonisation.
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Morocco's Salé film festival puts women in cinema centre stage
The festival's 19th edition celebrates women filmmakers, examines the roles and funding they are offered, and subtitles its films in Arabic for the first time.
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The Ethiopian photographer who turned the camera on herself
Sosina Mengistu began taking self-portraits while stranded during the pandemic. Six years on, the project has become a record of a generation's uncertainty.
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