Today, AMA grantees Bonaya Doti Ibrahim, Salad Dibi Duba and Fatima Jarso Guyo will travel from Nairobi, Kenya to Stone Town, Zanzibar to participate in the 12th edition of the Sauti za Busara international music festival (February 12-15). Bonaya Doti Ibrahim is a vocalist hailing from the Konso ethnic community in the remote region of…
Today, the members of Collective Afreekyama (Lehchili Mostepha Amine, Labib Benslama, Hamza Oualid) travel from Algiers, Algeria to Accra, Ghana for a month-long stay during which they will be exploring the local music scene and creating fusion music with Ghanaian musicians. Collective Afreekyama is a multimedia collaborative platform of musicians, journalists, filmmakers, photographers and visual…
AMA is pleased to announce the grantees of Session 26 (October 2014) of its mobility grants programme. Of the thirty-eight grant applicants, twenty-two were awarded grants: • Mr. Vincent Bezuidenhout (photographer and educator, South Africa): Mr. Bezuidenhout will be travelling to Buea, Cameroon to participate in the African Photography Initiatives conference (January 26 – February…
Today, AMA grantee Rocca Gutteridge is travelling from Kampala, Uganda, to Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, to conduct research on the Nafasi Art Space, explore the Tanzanian art scene, and deliver information on the Ugandan scene. Rocca Gutteridge is an artist and art director. Her background and training being in contemporary sculpture, she has exhibited her…
This month, stage director and AMA grantee Yvette Hardie travelled from Cape Town, South Africa to Yaoundé, Cameroon, to participate in this year’s edition of the International Festival of Theatre for Children and Adults (FATEJ), which was hosted by the Théâtre du Chocolat in partnership with ASSITEJ Cameroon. At FATEJ, she presented the play The…
Today, AMA grantees Dounia Benslimane (Morocco) and Gugu Dlamini (Swaziland) are travelling to Dakar to attend the Arterial Network’s conference on Creative Economy, which will take place from 14 to 16 November. Widely recognized as one of the leading actresses in her native Swaziland, Gugu is an accomplished performer and arts administrator who has been…
Today, AMA grantees Yvette Hardie and Constance Didi Nonceba are travelling from Cape Town, South Africa to Yaoundé, Cameroon, to participate in this year’s edition of the International Festival of Theatre for Children and Adults (FATEJ), which is hosted by the Théâtre du Chocolat in partnership with ASSITEJ Cameroon. At FATEJ, they will be presenting…
AMA wishes to congratulate the grantees of Session 23 (September 2012). Of the 36 eligible applicants considered by the AMA Selection Committee, eleven were awarded grants: 1. Constance Nonceba Didi (South Africa) A Cape Town-based actress, to participate in the International Festival of Theatre for Children and Adults (FATEJ) hosted conjointly by Theatre du…
AMA is sad to announce that Lagos-based grantee Jelili Atiku has had to cancel his participation in this month’s Protest Arts Festival in Harare, Zimbabwe and in the “Our Bodies Do” workshop in Bulawayo, due to regrettable and unforeseen circumstances. First refused the right to board a Johannesburg-bound flight on the grounds that he did…
Today, AMA grantee Jelili Olorunfunmi Atiku is traveling from Lagos (Nigeria) to Harare (Zimbabwe) to attend the fourth edition of the Protest Arts International Festival (October 23-28). Following the festival, he will travel to Bulawayo (Zimbabwe) to facilitate a performance workshop titled “Our Bodies Do” (October 29-31). Born in 1968 in Lagos and trained at…
