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Apple Music announced vocalist, poet and storyteller, Sio, as the next Isgubhu cover star.

Sheffield's No Bounds festival has revealed full details of its return for later this year. Scheduled from October 15th to 17th, the festival will take place, as ever, at its main Hope Works base, as well as at other venues in Sheffield. DJ sets have been confirmed from the likes of SHERELLE, Ben UFO, India Jordan, Helena Hauff, Batu, Joy Orbison, Anz, Kode9, Juliana Huxtable and Aurora Halal.  There will also be live sets from Loraine James, AYA, VTSS, 96 Back and Andy Stott, while Nkisi, Gabber Modus Operandi and the Nyege Nyege collective (comprising Don Zilla, DJ Diaki, Duma, Makossiri,...

It’s a hard sell but Africa must invest in art and imagination Teesa Bahana I’ve been raising funds for a building project: not a hospital, not a school, but an arts centre. It’s not an easy sell at the best of times but add in a pandemic and the fact that I’m in Africa and, according to the current rules of financial engagement, art is the verylowest of priorities. According to the people who decide these priorities, art does not create thousands of jobs, or keep people from dying, and it doesn’t “scale up”. I used to work in development, so I understand where t...

I used to work in development, so I understand where this mindset comes from, but now that I have worked in arts and culture, I see repeatedly how much Ugandan society misses out on because we do not prioritise our art. Artists make us constantly question how we see the world. Sometimes, they help us imagine a new one. As an arts centre, one of our greatest legacies is our residency programme. During a residency an artist will come for a few months, be given a studio, living expenses, a modest materials budget, and access to our community and our library of contemporary African art.

Meet KMRU, the Ambient Musician With His Ear to the World Pitchfork 1 hr ago © Pitchfork Berlin is a quiet city, especially in the depths of winter, and the residential neighborhood of Moabit, ringed by waterways, is especially tranquil. Yet when I call up Joseph Kamaru in his apartment there on a recent Saturday morning, he has been awake since 5 a.m., thanks to a singer practicing in a nearby flat. Germans are notoriously testy about noise—it’s illegal to toss glass bottles into the recycling container on Sunday, lest the shattering glass disturb someone’s day of rest—and the vo...