Ugandan musicians only have until Monday April 14 to submit their music videos for this year's Kora All Africa Music Awards where they can also win a $1m cash prize.

THE Chimanimani Arts Festival 2008 scheduled over the Independence long weekend, Friday April 18 to Sunday April 20, promises to be a rare FREE treat for music and art-lovers of Zimababwe.

THE Bonga na Coke promotion that has already seen two regional winners from Mbarara and Mbale win trips to the Beijing Olympic Games will this weekend shift to Lira. A Century Bottling Company caravan rolls into Coronation Park this afternoon

Johnny Bash's new album Journey comes as a silver lining to the dark cloud Ugandan music has become. It offers hope that the present synthetic music craze will come to pass and make way for finer recordings like the ones

An artistic and scientific event is being held at the Center of Arab and Mediterranean Music (Ennejma Ezzahra) in the perched, blue and white village of Sidi Bou Said. The event which was launched on April 7 , will run

The assertiveness associated with Kenyans must be fake after the eviction of Joyce Mbaya from The Apprentice Africa. She became the second Kenyan in three weeks to be fired for refusing to fight when they would have won.

The above is the title of an event, which comes off on May 9 at the National Theatre and is aimed at recognizing the role of women who have impacted significantly on their communities.

The recently published "Art & Craft - Ideas and Techniques" authored by Rika Nel and Elna Venter, is a landmark initiative in the educational field and within its sector. It is the first such publication since independence in 1990, and

Schools from North Eastern Province are back with a bang at the schools and colleges drama festival.

NEXT Tuesday an exhibition 'In the Shade of the Acacia - Research in African Deserts' will open at the National Art Gallery.

This weekend audiences will be in for another choral treat. The Nedbank Singers, directed by Ernst van Biljon, will give two concerts in the St Mary's Cathedral.

African Nobel Prize Winner, Nadine Gordimer by Karina Magda-lena Brink over the next few weeks. The paper was presented at the University of Namibia on April 3.

The National Film and Video Foundation (NFVF) and a South African delegation comprising the Department of Trade and Industry (Dti), Gauteng Film Commission and Durban Film Office and Cape Film Commission will be attending this year's AFCI Locations Expo. The

Reggae lovers on home soil have scored yet another victory with the birth of Jah Lallow and King Kodza in Harare.

Zimbabwean Lebogang Mzwimbi, the Idols presenter is counting his blessings after landing the big role, which would either break or make the show.

How do Southern African writers, artists, choreographers, musicians and theatre-makers see their art in the context of the society they live in? What are the fundamental issues of their countries and what ideas do they have for solving them?