Feridah Rose - debut concert
Ugandan born Feridah Rose has been enjoying music and singing most of her life and after her appearance in Talent09 on Danish television she is now finding herself as a solo-artist and for the first time ready to present her own songs together with carefully selected cover material.

Dawda Jobarteh featuring Maria Marolany at the Copengahen Jazz House.

Former South Africa President Nelson Mandela has entertained the Ghana team in his Johannesburg home the day after their dramatic 2010 FIFA World Cup™ quarter-final defeat against Uruguay.

Gambia Cultural Week 2010 in Copenhagen- Indoor games and African storytelling for children on June 3rd.

Addis Ababa, 17 June 2010 (ECA) - The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) has launched a network of community of experts and institutions involved in technology development and transfer in Africa, composed of leading African agencies responsible for technology development, adaptation, diffusion and transfer.

Rapper K'Naan's Wavin' Flag in World Cup triumph
By Ian Youngs
Music reporter, BBC News
 
An anthem by Somali-born rapper K'Naan has become the signature tune of this year's World Cup after being used in Coca Cola commercials and going to number one in 14 countries.

But Wavin' Flag was not written as a football song - beneath its celebratory tone is the story of its creator's narrow escape from a life of war and his subsequent rise as a hip-hop star and global role model.

K'Naan was luckier than most Somalis when his country fell into civil war in 1991.

Speech made by Ole Reitov at Copenhagen Wild Cards
June 30, 1996, Copenhagen

It was the famous South African Broadcaster, Evidence Bodibe, that in the year 2010 in his globally known programme - Another world - made the Norwegian refugees in Sudan aware of some forgotten and extremely interesting recordings of Same (laplanders) world music of the late nineties.
After the nuclear disaster in northern Europe in 2002, many Scandinavians had left Europe and were now found in pockets in Africa and their favourite programme was Bodibes "Another world".

Voices of change

 On the 28th November 1998, DAPAMDA in co-operation with South Africa Kontakt, organized the conference "Communicating Cultural Africa" at Copenhagen University. We invited 11 journalists from 10 countries in Africa for a week long seminar ending with a conference. "Communicating Cultural Africa" was an exchange of cultural knowledge, ideas and experience between journalists and artists and Danes interested in African culture. Dapamda member Matt Hunter reports about the conference.

African Culture on the WWW 

Sona Diabaté (Guinea) one of the famous singers of West Africa, her charismatic stage presentation and her expressive, flexible voice spellbinds the audience at once. Her voice is soft and smooth, and then powerful like an "African Tina Turner". Her father, the famous singer Hadji Djeli Fodé Diabaté, taught her to sing and to play the balafon by familiy tradition. After some years at school she started a career as a griot singer and after meeting Miriam Makeba, a Guinean resident at that time, she joined the "Amazones de Guinée", Africa's first all-female band, which was famous worldwide, as a singer and rhythm guitar player.

African Cultur Awards 2001

Who takes the Grand Prix at the first Dapamda Africa Culture Awards 2001? This was one question running through the minds of African cultural enthusiasts in Denmark. On Saturday, February 3 and the answer was sorted out at Nørre Alle Medborghus at Sankt Hans Torv in Norrebro, when personalities and organisations promoting African culture in Denmark gathered there to receive the due acknowledgements, to climax Dapamda's Africa Cultural week that was held in Copenhagen, Arhus and Helsingør from January 20th to February 3rd 2001.

Gambian Cultural Week 2009 - "Sabarr" with Roots Brothers at Sankt Hans Torv, Norrebro in Copenhagen. A taste of the events, August 14th 2009.