The race for this year’s Africa Movie Academy Awards (AMAA) will begin in earnest this weekend as Africa is set for the release of nominations ahead of the ceremony which promises to reward hard working filmmakers who have excelled within the last year.

Amidst rumours that Grammy Award-winning rapper Lil Wayne was in a coma and near death, his record label's publicist said that he had suffered a seizure and was recovering.

The idea of creating social change through music is not new. Creating change in Jamaica through that medium isn't either. However, using classical music to do it isn't so common. In fact, organisations like the National Youth Orchestra of Jamaica, which seeks to achieve such ends, are few and far between. It is even stranger for one individual to do so.

American rappers Nicki Minaj and French Montana have sampled Murder She Wrote, originally performed by Chaka Demus and Pliers. The song is called Freaks, produced by Bad Boy Records and already tongues wagging on YouTube.com...

Maybe there wasn't a long line of traffic leading up to the venue or a lot of persons inside, but patrons who turned up at Tracks & Records, Constant Spring Road, on Tuesday night were certainly treated to a hit-filled performance by Wayne Wonder.

Wayne Mitchell, better knows by his stage name Wayne Marshall is a reggae and dancehall artist from Jamaica. He is most notable for his collaborations with Sean Paul, Elephant Man and Beenie Man. He also attended the Wolmer's Boys' School for Boys and married fellow reggae/dancehall artist Tami Chynn in 2009.

It is the latest dance craze to go viral with reports of over 12,000 videos of the Harlem Shake posted online in the last month.

Music is back in Mogadishu after being banned by Islamists who controlled much of south and central Somalia two years ago. A concert this week saw a top Somali performer appear before a happy crowd, which included government officials.