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Plea for support: Zim music studio damaged by hailstorm

Plea for support: Zim music studio damaged by hailstorm

Dlala Thukzin to make Ghana debut at Accra House Fest

Dlala Thukzin to make Ghana debut at Accra House Fest

Zimbabwean Afro-house artists unite for ‘Inner Visions’ compilation

Zimbabwean Afro-house artists unite for ‘Inner Visions’ compilation

CAPASSO backs global principles for fair generative AI music licensing

CAPASSO backs global principles for fair generative AI music licensing

SA: MUSA shares new album ‘UHAMBO’

SA: MUSA shares new album ‘UHAMBO’

SA: CAPASSO names 10 recipients of second CSI funding round

SA: CAPASSO names 10 recipients of second CSI funding round

Goethe-Institut Kenya brings Ghanaian and Kenyan artists together for MobiArts concert

Goethe-Institut Kenya brings Ghanaian and Kenyan artists together for MobiArts concert

SA: 2026 Music Exchange to focus on rights, AI and the entertainment economy

SA: 2026 Music Exchange to focus on rights, AI and the entertainment economy

Ghana: Mr Eazi teams up with MOLIY on new single ‘Comfort’

Ghana: Mr Eazi teams up with MOLIY on new single ‘Comfort’

NAAK and Vumaala to take SA electronic sounds to Amsterdam

NAAK and Vumaala to take SA electronic sounds to Amsterdam

South African music veteran Babsy Mlangeni dies aged 83

South African music veteran Babsy Mlangeni dies aged 83

SA: Moonchild Sanelly to release Afro-house project ‘The Blueprint’

SA: Moonchild Sanelly to release Afro-house project ‘The Blueprint’

NEFCISA
NEFCISA

The Music In Africa Foundation (MIAF) is proud of its partnership with the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) as a Strategic Implementing Partner (SIP) for its Social Employment Fund (SEF). Through this collaboration, MIAF is running a national programme that is creating jobs, addressing skills gaps, and strengthening South Africa's creative industries — in line with the SEF's overarching goal to generate work for the common good and build community value through employment, social contribution, and inclusive economic participation. Operating under the banner NEFCISA (National Employment Facility for Creative Industries in South Africa), the initiative is recruiting and training participants, matching them with host organisations, and has already placed 1 500 workers across the country — surpassing its original target of 1 000. NEFCISA is delivered through a network of 20 host organisations spanning five provinces, who are actively hosting participants and contributing to work for the common good across South Africa's creative and cultural industries. Key Objectives: Support employment and entrepreneurship in the creative industries. Offer skills development and training programmes. Foster partnerships between public and private creative sectors. Promote South African creativity at both provincial and national levels Foster community development through social contribution.

ACCES
ACCES

ACCES Conference and Showcase Festival is Africa's leading music industry gathering, bringing together the people shaping the future of the continent's music business. Artists, entrepreneurs, executives, investors, policymakers and cultural leaders from across Africa and around the world come to ACCES to build partnerships, exchange ideas, discover talent and create new business opportunities. Since its launch in 2017, ACCES has become the continent's premier platform for professional exchange and music market development. Combining a high-level conference with a curated showcase festival, networking, exhibitions and industry programmes, ACCES offers a unique space where creativity meets business and where African music connects with the global industry.

Gender@Work
Gender@Work

Music In Africa Gender @ Work is a three-year training programme aimed at upskilling and increasing the participation of female professionals in the African music sector. Launched by the Music In Africa Foundation (MIAF) in April 2019, the programme is connected to the MIAF’s ACCES music conference – a pan-African event held in a different African country every year. This connection enables the programme to reach new participants in a different African country every year. The programme marks the beginning of a more concerted effort by the Foundation to support the participation and inclusion of women in all facets of its programmes and the music sector in Africa as a whole. Over the three years, the programme will aim to address gender imbalances in the sector through training, lobbying, facilitating knowledge exchange and dialogues that foster the interest of women. The broader objectives of the programme are to: Provide industry training for women on critical music industry skills, focusing on: Stage management Electronic music production and recording Music business management Technical knowledge Provide an opportunity for both professional and aspiring women to benefit from the Music In Africa network and its broad range of activities in 2019, 2020 and 2021. Provide a solution-based platform in the form of a round table at ACCES with a view to identify challenges, discuss opportunities and lobby for the interests of female practitioners. Offer participants the opportunity to benefit from programmes offered by MIAF’s partners. Increase access to educational materials. Integrate participants in the broader ACCES programme to maximise experience and exposure to the industry. Record and present training materials on the www.musicinafrica.net, including but not limited to tutorials, templates and other best-practice materials. Communicate women-based themes that support the initiatives and messages of the programme. MAIN TRAINING ACTIVITIES Training in first country (Ghana): In the first year, participants will be trained on all aspects of stage management by a team of experienced stage managers from 10 to 17 November 2019. The programme will offer robust classroom training as well as practical, hands-on training in which participants will also be given the opportunity to manage various aspects of the ACCES performance programme. Training in second country: The second training iteration will take place at ACCES 2020 when the programme will diversify its course to include music production lessons and training on other music business topics. A round-table platform will also be introduced to coincide with the ACCES programme. Training in third country: The third training iteration will take place at ACCES 2021 in a different country, offering an advanced course. HOW DO YOU GET INVOLVED?  As a participant, facilitator or trainer: The programme enrolls up to 12 trainees every year. All opportunities are advertised publicly on this website, and will be added to this page. Please keep checking this page for new calls (below under UPDATES & CURRENT OPPORTUNITIES). As a partner Please contact Claire Metais at [email protected]. APPLY The call for applications for 2020 will be announced soon. The Music In Africa Gender @ Work programme is made possible with the support of the Prince Claus Fund, Siemens Stiftung and Goethe-Institut.

Sound Connects Fund
Sound Connects Fund

For cultural and creative practitioners and organisations operating in southern Africa, access to funding remains a major challenge. The COVID-19 pandemic has also had a massive impact on government policy, spending and the economy in general, and has seen spending on culture being moved further down the list of priorities. Further, the cultural and creative industries repeatedly cite four main areas where investment is needed for growth, which are increased visibility, mobility including access to new markets, finance and support structures.

Instrument Building And Repair Project
Instrument Building And Repair Project

Experience the Vibrations African Instruments Exhibition online in 3D

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Dawda Jobarteh

Dawda Jobarteh

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Copenhagen, Denmark

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1988

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BIO

Dawda Jobarteh is a Denmark-based Afro-rock musician from The Gambia.

Jobarteh takes his griot heritage very seriously and is the grandson of Alhaji Bai Konte and son of Amadou Bansang. He is at the epicentre of The Gambia’s musical aristocracy.

Dawda was not, at first, a kora player and even today his instrument is one acquired after he'd left the land of his birth, The Gambia, and settled in Denmark. Dawda learned his music sitting at the feet of his uncle Malamin, playing the calabash. And perhaps it is this training as a percussionist, only coming to the kora later and on his own terms, which makes his music so distinct.

Another factor could be the range of collaborators with whom Dawda has performed and recorded over the years. From the Salaam Band in The Gambia while still in his teens, through to featuring with jazz pioneer Pierre Dørge, and on to leading his own groups today, Dawda has absorbed a range of influences that cover a whole gamut of musical styles. Thus he is as comfortable with a traditional composition which dates back hundreds of years, as he is with hooking up his kora to an effects box and turning the volume to '11'.

Dawda’s home is now firmly in Denmark. Here he has married and set up house. Here he has swapped the wedding and circumcision ceremonies that his uncles Malamin Jobarteh and Dembo Konte performed in rural Gambia, for educational tours of Scandinavia with bassist Moussa Diallo, or free-jazz performances with drummer Stefan Pasborg. Here with his own group he has appeared at rock festivals such as Roskilde, and from here he has ventured around the world onto stages in East Africa and clubs in New Delhi, India.

Dawda Jobarteh's performances honour his past, are rooted in the present and yet always look to the future.

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Better Git it in Your Soul (Live)

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Togo (Live)

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Videos

Dawda Jobarteh Feat. Øyunn and Svaneborg

Dawda Jobarteh Feat. Øyunn and Svaneborg

November 27, 2025
Dawda Jobarteh - Mba Sina

Dawda Jobarteh - Mba Sina

September 20, 2025
Knockin' On Heaven's Door ( KORA COVER ) Dawda Jobarteh

Knockin' On Heaven's Door ( KORA COVER ) Dawda Jobarteh

August 18, 2025
Dawda Jobarteh & Strings - live at Koncertkirken 2023

Dawda Jobarteh & Strings - live at Koncertkirken 2023

October 2, 2023
Dawda Jobarteh - (People call it jazz) Live at Alice Cph. Copenhagen Jazz Festival July 2023

Dawda Jobarteh - (People call it jazz) Live at Alice Cph. Copenhagen Jazz Festival July 2023

August 2, 2023
Dawda Jobarteh - 'People call it jazz' & 'Rock'n Kora' live at Alice, Cph Jazz Festival July 2023

Dawda Jobarteh - 'People call it jazz' & 'Rock'n Kora' live at Alice, Cph Jazz Festival July 2023

August 1, 2023
Dawda Jobarteh - (Place de la Madeline) Live at Alice Cph, Copenhagen Jazz Festival July 2023

Dawda Jobarteh - (Place de la Madeline) Live at Alice Cph, Copenhagen Jazz Festival July 2023

July 25, 2023
Dawda Jobarteh - Sunset In Batumi

Dawda Jobarteh - Sunset In Batumi

September 30, 2021
Dawda Jobarteh Namo

Dawda Jobarteh Namo

April 27, 2020
Dawda Jobarteh - Winter Trees Standing Sleeping

Dawda Jobarteh - Winter Trees Standing Sleeping

March 14, 2020
Adele - Hello (KORA COVER) Dawda Jobarteh

Adele - Hello (KORA COVER) Dawda Jobarteh

March 14, 2020
Dawda Jobarteh & Stefan Pasborg - Karang Folo

Dawda Jobarteh & Stefan Pasborg - Karang Folo

March 7, 2020
Dawda Jobarteh live at Roskide 2019

Dawda Jobarteh live at Roskide 2019

December 27, 2019
Dawda Jobarteh - Samakebalu live in Hamburg Nov 2019

Dawda Jobarteh - Samakebalu live in Hamburg Nov 2019

December 21, 2019
Dawda Jobarteh - I Met Her By The River Live at Kayak Bar

Dawda Jobarteh - I Met Her By The River Live at Kayak Bar

November 30, 2019

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