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Can Kenya find its own identity, free from the trappings of Western culture?

Thriving in adversity: the Nigerian literary scene

The controversy behind the Royal Academy's exhibition "Africa: The Art of a Continent"

What is the function of art? Can that question every be answered?

"A Lagosian kaleidoscope": Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka on his latest play

Can a Kenyan youth drama group fight the spread of Aids?

Francis Imbuga's "Betrayal In The City" leaps from the stage to the screen

Inside the "Great White Elephant", Ghana's Chinese-built national theatre

Out of the kitchen: three generations of female Kenyan artists

Houria Niati, Algeria's voice of dissent

Rosemary Karuga: a life in art

Niyi Osundare, Nigerian champion of poetry

The inventive world of homemade African toys

Beer garden theatre: how Kenya took drama beyond the stage

New African writing: a special report

Big island, one sound: Tarika, Madagascar's musical torchbearers

How Whitney Houston alienated African men

From the streets to the stage, with Nairobi's Shangilia youth theatre troupe

Enchanted: special guest Gaele Sobott Mogwe's world of stories

"Deadly Voyage" and the African stowaway murders

Peter Badejo, renaissance man of African arts

Why what you wear in post-Apartheid South Africa is about more than just looking good

"Longing is useful for a writer": Zimbabwe's Chenjerai Hove looks back

Why art and politics didn't mix for Malawi's Du Chisiza

Coming through censorship: how South Africa's Roger Lucey swapped songwriting for plays

Controversy is blazing over Zimbabwean film "Flame", so how will the film-makers respond?

Birthplace of rhythm: the Master Drummers of Africa

Language breakthrough: songs, stories and poems in Hausa

The string quartet sound of Soweto

Stand up South Africa: the pioneering comedy of Gaby Lomberg