Mozambique's Azgo Festival will again take place in Maputo on 20-21 May. Azgo is an international arts festival and a contemporary celebration of arts and culture, bringing together a diverse program ...

It was oddly fitting and postmodern that Maputo’s Fifth International Music Festival kicked off at the city’s most egregious example of colonial delirium — the Salão Nobre at the Town House, an ...

Unlike travels in much of the western world, a road trip through Mozambique reveals this: Africa comes at you. It is visceral - the gregarious people, the bombardment of street music, the vibrant ...

At the Ordway Concert Hall on Friday evening, composer, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Nyttu Chongo brought together traditional sounds from Mozambique with Western classical music instruments in ...

Maputo — The Eighth Maputo International Music Festival begins on Friday, a date deliberately chosen in order to pay tribute to murdered anti-apartheid activist, Ruth First. Had she lived, this would ...

Pemba — Mozambican President Armando Guebuza on Wednesday declared that culture can become a powerful means of communication for popular mobilisation against poverty, and for recovering "our ...

Sculptures made from decommissioned weaponry are known as war art. Mozambique’s most famous son is the war artist Gonzalo Mabunda, a sculptor in his thirties who has exhibited in the British Museum in ...

MANKATO — Even though he has made recordings, booked performances and gotten grants for his work, Nyttu Chongo does not consider himself a musician. To him, he is much more of a conduit, a connection ...

Lucy Duran travels to the rarely visited Southern African country of Mozambique, home to many diverse musical traditions which have rarely been recorded or heard by outsiders. Show more In two special ...

LOCAL artiste Tapiwa Munyayi, popularly known as Tapz Afrique Munya from the Group Savanna Afros, was recently selected to represent Zimbabwe in the Music Bridges 2014 in Maputo and Bilene Mozambique ...

2004 - Mozambique-born bassist Gito Baloi is killed in downtown Johannesburg, South Africa. Police say Baloi, 39, is shot in the neck as he makes his way home from performing at the Lucit Candle… By ...