Calls for stronger government investment in Ghana’s arts sector took centre stage in Accra last week, as leading artists and...
The beat lands first—sharp, playful, impossible to ignore. Then the body answers. A hand flicks like it’s texting, feet shuffle with sly precision, shoulders roll in...
Some performances entertain. Others feel like they remember something for you. At the 2026 edition of the Togo Jazz Festival, Esinam Dogbatse and Sibusile Xaba stepped...
On a humid evening in Lomé, brass music stepped out of the shadows of ceremony and into something far more alive: a conversation about identity in...
In the heavy, humid air of an Abidjan evening, the stage at the 14th Market for African Performing Arts (MASA) does something rare: it stops being...
The scent of salt air from the Gulf of Guinea mingles with the rising dust of Accra, but it is the rhythmic, earthy thud of feet...
Midway through the performance, a dancer pauses beneath the stage lights, his body tense, his face partially hidden behind a mask. The silence stretches long enough...
At the Salle Lougah François during MASA 2026, there is a moment where the dust of the stage seems to hold its breath. It happens when...
When the curtains rose at the Salle Lougah François in Abidjan’s Palais de la Culture, it wasn’t just the stage lights that commanded attention—it was the...
At the 2026 Market for African Performing Arts (MASA) in Abidjan, the air inside the Salle Kodjo Ebouclé usually hums with the kinetic energy of West...
