Veteran Soul Musician Dies Veteran musician Steele Beauttah has died. He died on Monday night at the Kenyatta National Hospital after a short illness. He was 53. New movie on Idd Amin coming Kenyan scriptwriter-director Wanjiku Kinyanjui is expected to prepare the script for a movie on Idi Amin's Uganda. Indian film director Amrit Seaga hopes to make a movie on Ugandan exiles going back home after the 1970s misrule by dictator Idi Amin.
African music continues to inspire many artistes African music is now en vogue throughout the world.
African musicians are riding high in the international scene, featuring prominently in almost all the major music festivals and concerts across the globe. Musicians from other continents are increasingly turning to Africa's rich musical heritage to spice up their rhythms. They are either doing joint projects with their African counterparts or taking time to learn from them. Bigger artists had nothing new for HIFA Harare International Festival of the Arts executive director Manuel Bagorro, says musicians such as Leonard Zhakata and Simon Chimbetu were not on the bill for this year's Hifa because they had nothing new to offer since their performances last year. Harare Dolorosa Mubvumbi is well known in the arts industry for two reasons.