I have often wondered what our dear Mauritian writers are up to nowadays. They must all be oh so busy writing about horticulture, about "le salon de la maison and du jardin" and other nonsensical events that no one really

Bakau Lower Basic School, on Friday, organised a musical fund raising show with the famous DJ Lamin Cham, of the Champion Sound system at the Bakau Lower Basic school ground.

The Angolan singers Moniz and Beto de Almeida, aka Almeida Brothers, intend to release their third album in January 2009.

As the much awaited 22nd July scholarship pageant, comes closer, schools in the central river region on Monday evening, May 12, converged at the Armitage Senior Secondary School to select their representatives for the Miss 22nd July scholarship pageant, an

The Department of Education is to distribute 120 000 copies of a children's book which tell stories with positive values messages to primary schools around South Africa.

The agreement of posting the 11 commitments in packages of DHL Express firm, circulating countrywide, shall be explained this Tuesday here at a press conference on the launching of the partnership between UNICEF and DHL in favour of children.

Maternal, newborn and child deaths would be drastically reduced if South Africa simply implemented the policies it already has in place.

Kenya's Ravneet Chadha won the fourth annual Impala Golden Awards last Sunday on the closing day of the Amakula International Film Festival at the National Theatre.

IT was the kind of production that dazzled, perhaps even puzzled some people. The Carnival of the Animals staged last weekend at Aga Khan secondary school in Old Kampala was not many Ugandans' typical classical music presentation, not even to

One of the Nigerian movies that were screened at the Cinema du Sud, a French pavilion at the ongoing international film fiesta, the Festival de Cannes has been recognised as one of the most motivating, educating and entertaining movies of

CHILDREN in Port Harcourt protested weeks back about the series of kidnaps in which they are victims.

The chairman Uganda National Teachers Union for Manafwa District has condemned the alarming levels of child labour and disregard for the universal primary education programme by parents in the district.

President Yoweri Museveni has urged widows to educate their children to enable them to have a bright future. His message was contained in a speech read by Bushenyi Woman MP Karooro Okurut during a memorial service for Aloysius Kyamutetera in

THE failure of fathers to pay maintenance for their children leads to a poor quality of life for many children.

The greatest legacy a leader can bequeath is to etch his name in gold in the hearts of his people", Chief Obafemi Awolowo. The evil that men commit, says the world's greatest bard writing in English, lives after them.