At the backstage in Sunbird Nkopola Lodge – Mangochi on the shores of Lake Malawi, I nearly find it impossible to speak to Lucius Banda, who is the lead organiser of Malawi’s famed Sand Music Festival ...

Behind the knockabout cross-dressing of this musical about Madonna's adoption of Mercy James lies the fact that few Malawians know who the pop star is, writes Mark Fisher ...

Close-up. Wendy Favour Harawa came to Uganda as an ordinary businessperson who had business ties with Jamaican Singer Busy Signal who had scheduled a performance in Kampala in 2015. The arts ...

Malawi music is fast growing into a desirable booming product and will soon be competing on the global stage, multi-award winning songwriter and rapper marketer and banker Phyzix has said. The bars ...

A 72-year-old woman has shot to music stardom in Malawi, challenging societal norms in a country where elderly people are often abused, tortured or even killed over false accusations of witchcraft.

Ali Mazrui, in his 1990 book Cultural Forces in World Politics (James Currey), argued that culture “provides lenses for perception and cognition, motives for human behaviour, criteria of evaluation, a ...

Fame at 92: Malawian music legend Giddes Chalamanda has notched up millions of views on TikTok – Copyright AFP Bertha WANG At 92, Giddes Chalamanda has no idea what ...

The annually dominated Hangout Music Festival was this year's prestigious three-day catchments of protruding beautiful coastlines of the historical facts and obscure secrets of Salima in Malawi. It ...

As a child, Lucius Chiccio Banda had little interest in music - he spent his days playing football instead. But Banda's older brother coaxed him to join a church band, setting him on a path to become ...

Chiradzulu (Malawi) (AFP) – At 92, Giddes Chalamanda has no idea what TikTok is. He doesn't even own a smartphone. And yet the Malawian music legend has become a social media star, with his song ...

The Malawian music legend has become a social media star with his “Linny Hoo” receiving over 80 million views on Tik-tok. "They come and show me the videos on their phones, but I have no idea how it ...