Artbeat Africa

Artbeat Africa brings you the best cultural and music interviews by the Focus on Africa team this week. In this bumper edition Art and politics definitely mix. The King of the Kwassa Kwassa dance style, Kanda Bongo Man tells us he's back in the studio making a new album. The Ghanaian singer Nino (pictured) introduces us to his own musical invention which he calls Nuslam. Zimbabwean singer Alexio Kaware tells us about Rock for Human rights. A bus tour around America with other musicians to raise human rights awareness. The celebrated Zimbabwean writer Chenjerai Hove makes headlines by asking the first lady Grace Mugabe to return her PhD to the University of Zimbabwe. Plus Sudanese singer Emmanuel Jal tells us about his new album "the key" and and his new movie with Hollywood star Reese Witherspoon, entitled "The good Lie"