![]() The Martin Lewis Money Show: Live Special All three episodes are on iPlayer (from Tuesday 13). This is not a definitive guide to modern African culture, but Hirsch offers an engaging run-through of what’s happening there. ![]() She also meets the country’s new superstar singer Rym Fikri.įor many young African artists, the need to make it in the West is no longer key, while the fusion of East and West can create something greater than the sum of its parts, as we learn with hip-hop artist Sigou. The first episode takes us to Morocco, where Hirsch meets renowned photographer Hassan Hajjaj – the “Andy Warhol of Africa”, who was once a market trader in London – and saddles up with Amal Amhari, an exponent of Tbourida (a Moroccan equestrian performance dating from the 16th century) and explores Amazigh (formerly Berber) rug weaving with artist Sarah Allaoui. There’s the occasional travelogue cliché – “There’s something about Marrakesh it’s just got that X factor” – as she introduces us to those who are shaking up the arts across the continent by melding tradition with modern innovation. ![]() Journalist Afua Hirsch travels to Morocco, Nigeria and South Africa to explore how creatives are reinventing culture across the continent. ![]()
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