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Burkina Faso-born architect Diebedo Francis Kere was awarded with the Pritzker Prize, architecture's most prestigious award. The announcement was made in New York. Francis Kere is the first African to win the honour in its more than…

One of the most influential genres of African music and dance, Congolese rumba, is now on UNESCOs intangible heritage list. This is aimed at helping to preserve the heritage that is often threatened. Some 60 applications were…

South African playwright and novelist Damon Galgut has won the 2021 Booker Prize for "The Promise", his third shortlisted novel which chronicles a family in his homeland from the late apartheid era through to Jacob Zuma's presidency.…

Paulina Chiziane is the winner of the Camões literary Prize 2021. The choice of the Mozambican writer was made unanimously, according to the Portuguese Minister of Culture, Graça Fonseca. For the 66-year-old, this is an award she shares…

Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature "for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee," the award-giving body said. Based in Britain and…

All Progressives Congress (APC) has declared Andy Uba the winner of the primary election in Anambra State. Uba gulped 230,201 votes to defeat 13 other aspirants and emerge as the party’s candidate for the November 6 governorship…

The 2020 Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership has been awarded to Mahamadou Issoufou, president of Niger. He is the sixth recipient of the Ibrahim Prize, which recognises and celebrates excellence in African leadership.…

Protests has erupted in Niger with tyres set alight and reported clashes with police after the country's monumental election result named ruling party candidate Mohamed Bazoum the winner. Bazoum, a 61-year-old former interior minister,…