Category: Africa News
SCCATamale Founder, Ibrahim Mahama saves Nkrumah’s legacy (Nkrumah Never Dies)
Story Zakaria Abdul Hakim Cisse || Sanatu Zambang The founder and executive director of the Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art (SCCA) has again taken up a laudable initiative. The artiste, who recently hosted hundreds of people at…
In Conversation: Behrouz Boochani & Ibrahim Mahama, moderated by Elaine Pearson
For the 22nd Biennale of Sydney, titled NIRIN, Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama created an immersive installation titled after Behrouz Boochani’s 2018 book, No Friend but the Mountains – a harrowing account of the Kurdish-Iranian journalist’s…
Northern Innovation Lab: SHS Girls run the Walewale startup pitch summit
Story: Rahamatu-Lahi Zakaria || Sanatu Zambang Newsroom It was an all-girls affair at the maiden edition of the Walewale Startup pitch summit in Walewale on Saturday, 12th September 2020 as a ”Team build” won on the day to…
Honorable Mariam saw me as someone who could help in the development of my district -Hajia Rabi
Story: Rahamatu-Lahi Zakaria || Sanatu Zambang Newsroom When It comes to women participation in politics in the country, the number is small an when you zoom it down to the northern region, it is even much smaller and…
SCORING the NPP & NDC MANIFESTOS: IT & Broadband Access for a 21st Century Economy
Article by Dr Andani Kholinar One of my passion projects is IT and artificial intelligence. Having spent six years in the US, I have come to appreciate the extreme value of IT in the development…
Redclay studios and SCCA celebrates (A Retrospective of Agyeman Ossei ‘Dota’)
Story: Rahamatu-Lahi Zakaria || Sanatu Zambang Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art Tamale (SCCA) and Red Clay Studios has opened an exhibition in celebration of Agyeman Osei with a retrospective of his works dating back from when he started…
Understanding copyrights: what the creative artiste should know – IP rights expert
Zakaria Abdul Hakim Cisse || Sanatu Zambang The issue of monetization of creative works have been long discussed in the country. Even though these discourse have been happening, the creative industry in Ghana especially northern Ghana,…
Where to be in Tamale: Akutia Art Exhibition opens on Friday, September 4
Zakaria Abdul Hakim Cisse || Sanatu Zambang From Friday, September 4, the Savannah Centre for Contemporary Art (SCCA) would be opened to the public. The Red Clay Studios will however be opened on the following day,…
Ibrahim Mahama, “Dreams In-Between Dreams, 1909-1972,” 2020 on New York Times
Source; The New York Times ACCORDING TO DATA compiled by the Southern Poverty Law Center, some 100 monuments to Confederate generals and politicians have been removed from American public land since June 2015, when Dylann Roof, a…
Sometimes you need the political tag to operationalize your ideas- Mrs. Hajia Halima
Story: Rahamatu-Lahi Zakaria || Sanatu Zambang Sagito-Saeed Most people in the northern region call her the first lady of the region while the younger generation calls her Mummy because of the time she has for them, attending events,…
