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AFRICA: The Mandingo Empire cared about the environment.
The celebration of the World Day of Africa at the height of the Music Festival was marked in Geneva by a major conference of...
SENEGAL – Fatimata Diallo BA: The Glow of the Feather Winner
Fatimata Diallo BA, a French-Senegalese writer, recently made her mark on literary minds by winning the prestigious Cénacle Prize for Young...
IVORY COAST: The Star of the “coupé décalé” DJ Arafat sentenced to one year...
The case for which Dj Arafat, aka Yorobo was sentenced to one year in prison, dates back to the beginning of 2018. He had...
MUSIC-IN – 50 CENT puts an end to musical career: Coup de COMM(UNICATION) or...
Yesterday I was summoned by my boss to make a note on 50 Cent, the rapper with the sound name and...
MOROCCO – The singer Oum offered a concert to her fans
«Happy to make an appointment for a concert on the channels of the Department of Culture and Tourism in Abu Dhabi...
TUNISIA – Hinda Djeridi: “We are all awakeners of consciousness”
A great humanist at heart, in love with unconditional love, handling words with delicacy and gratitude, the multi-faceted woman Hinda Djeridi indulges...
UNITED STATES: “Hitman” the latest music video of Kelly Rowland
Kelly Rowland, born Kelendria Trene Rowland on February 11, 1981 in Atlanta, is a singer, dancer, lyricist, actress and personality of...
SENEGAL: USA, Canada, Norway, Senegal or Belgium: King Ibu is the king of the...
His name sounds like a legend inscribed in history. King Ibu! It is above all a story that resonates deep in...
SENEGAL – An artistic discovery named Miriam Kanté
Miriam Kanté is a French-Senegalese singer with Italian and Spanish origins. She was invited by the great Senegalese singer Pape Diouf,...
SENEGAL – “Ndèye”, an ode to the women of Jahman X-Press
Artist Jahman X-Press has released the music video for her new song “Ndèye”, An Ode to Women. “Ndèye” means “Mother” in...
SENEGAL – Youssou Ndour back in the bins on November 12 with a new...
The release date of Youssou Ndour’s next album is known. It will be November 12, 2021. The Mbalax king returns with a 10-track...
MOROCCO – Morocco is in the spotlight at the 76th edition of the Cannes...
Maryam Touzany, as a member of the official jury of the 76th Cannes Film Festival, will play a key role in...
HISTORIKA : Queen Nandi, mother of Chaka, king of the Zulus.
Queen Nandi was the mother of Chaka, king of the Zulus in South Africa.
The representation took place at UNESCO’s African Week in 2019.
Watch the...
IVORY COAST – Every night in the world: a show that vaporizes traditional forms...
"Every night in the world" was advertised on social media, with a beating drum. In fact, it piqued my curiosity. This...
[CULTURE-LIVRE] – Mimo Dia Leydimen, a Pan-African Senegalese writer, writes a new book, “Our...
It is only a few months after the release of his first book, an essay entitled “The Humiliated Africa, the Hell...
GUINEA – SENEGAL : MAM’KO, the passion at the heart of Hip-Hop.
Trained at the School of Fine Arts in Senegal, MAM'KO, of Guinean origin, comes from a large Manding family called Cissoko in which songs...
SENEGAL – TAARU RAP GALSEN: Paco Briz, art in good taste
Paco Briz is Yoff’s shining star. If there is one artist who makes his community and his audience proud, it is...
SENEGAL – The Daara J FAMILY set fire to the scene in Paris
The mythical rap group, the Daara J FAMILY, set fire to Châtelet les Halles this Sunday, June 13, 2021. It was...
SENEGAL – Didier Awadi’s concert forbidden by a “prefectoral decree”
That is the least we can say. On September 17, 2022, while Pan-African artist, engaged Didier Awadi, in collaboration with the...
NIGERIA : Yemi Alade celebrates the Nigeria’s independence
1st October was the celebration of the independence of Nigeria. The international artist Yemi Alade, 2Baba, Rema, and Cobhams Asuquo team up for a...
BENIN: “Healing certainties” by Reckya Madougou
Reckya MADOUGOU Former Keeper of the Seals, Minister of Justice, Legislation and Human Rights Former Government Spokesperson Former Minister of Microfinance...
SENEGAL/CONGO – Dip Doundou Guiss and Youssoupha in a happy duo: “J’prend confiance”
With this dance and work mix, "J'prend confiance", in duet with the French rapper Youssoupha, Dip confirms that music is better...
SENEGAL/MALI – Musicians Baaba Maal and Inna Modja named UNCCD Goodwill Ambassadors
The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) is proud to announce that Baaba Maal and Inna Modja have been appointed...
SENEGAL – Exclusive interview with Yussu Dumbia a.k.a Y.DEE
As part of the 9th edition of the Galsen Hip-Hop Awards, the Ze-Africanews team met Y.DEE the initiator of this cultural project.
SOUTH AFRICA: South African Brenda Fassie, immortalized in a series of feminist comics!
A book of mini-comics will pay tribute to the South African singer Brenda Fassie and 50 other women.
Entitled Femme Magnifique: A Salute to 50...
MALI: Sidiki diabate on provisional release
Singer Sidiki Diabaté was temporarily released from prison on Tuesday 29 December 2020. The musician was imprisoned in the detention and...
CONGO: Alain Mabanckou at the Africa Writes UK festival.
Internationally renowned writer Alain Mabanckou was in conference at the British Librery on July 2, 2017 at 5 pm.
This meeting is part of the...
EGYPT: Singer Shyma in prison for a clip deemed too suggestive
Two years in jail for "incitement to debauchery" for Egyptian singer Shyma. So decided a court on Tuesday December 12, 2017. His crime; an...
SENEGAL: Two singles to pay tribute to Ndongo Lo, the man with the golden...
Ousmane Jordan Fall is the co-founder of Label 6 "Rainbow Music" that he created with his friend Oumar Talla who is based in Senegal....
IVORY COST: The “thieves of dreams” of Oumar Ndao.
Oumar Ndao is a Senegalese who lives Married and father of family, he works as journalist-corrector for "Gbic" h! "Go Magazine" and "Allo Police",...
IVORY COAST – Gauz’ writes for the word through Cocoaïans, a chocolate nation
Among the multitude of literary works that flood the bookstores this fall, the one we announce will make a sensation. He...
SENEGAL – International star Youssou Ndour supports diva Coumba Gawlo Seck
Senegalese singer Youssou Ndour visited the great diva Coumba Gawlo to show his support and solidarity this Saturday, February 20, 2021...
SENEGAL: Artists in the streets against new state measures
Concern over a second wave of Covid-19 contamination has forced Senegalese authorities to toughen government health measures and ban all forms...
TRIBUTE: The historian Lascony NySymb celebrates Manu Dibango.
BREATHLESS: In memory of Manu Dibango: 1933-2020). The COLPORTERS of bad news can congratulate themselves on having anticipated the collapse of a GREAT monument....
SENEGAL – Youssou Ndour and the «Super Étoile de Dakar» sold-out tour
Friday the 13th… It seems that this date does not bode well. Nonsense? Despicable superstition? In any case, Youssou Ndour and...