Lucia on the glamourous side of Africa

GALWAY singer and performer Lucia Evans presents a fact finding documentary from Africa which is to be broadcast tonight (Tuesday) on RTÉ One at 10.10pm.In African A-List – commissioned by RTÉ especially for Africa Day 2009 – Lucia Evans travelled to the heart of Africa in search of good news from a troubled continent. Says Lucia: “We are bombarded with images of poor Africa , but what about the celebrities, the business people, the middle classes? What about its popular culture? What about its media industry? All these exist, and I want to present a picture of them, not to negate the very real challenges and indeed humanitarian disasters still afflicting the continent, but to add some colour and shade to a currently very monochrome picture.”Travelling to the show business capital of East Africa, Kampala, Uganda’s capital city, Lucia Evans met ...