AiW Guest: Ceri Whatley AiW Note: This is the first in a series of four posts in which Ceri Whatley discusses Rwandan artist Eric 1Key’s album Entre 2, as well as presenting original translations of 1Key’s lyrics from Kinyarwanda and French to English. We… Read More ›
Performance
Review: Things We Lost in the Fire by Vuyelwa Maluleke
AiW Guest: Toni Stuart Vuyelwa Maluleke’s Things We Lost in the Fire is a meditation on all that still lies broken within and between South Africans. It is at once a meditation on the woundedness of South Africa’s black men, and,… Read More ›
CfP: Paradigm Shifts in African Theatre and Performance, 21-24 July 2016, Abuja, Deadline 31 March 2016
Paradigm Shifts in African Theatre and Performance 2016 AfTA Annual International Conference University of Abuja, Nigeria 21 – 24 July 2016 Theatre and Performance have developed along several major lines of enquiry in Africa over the last six decades from… Read More ›
Ogbeni Femi, and the future of Yoruba oral performance
Femi Amogunla – also known as Femi Kayode and Ogbeni Femi, or ‘Mr Femi’ – is a spoken word poet based in Lagos. In 2012, Femi took part in 30 Nigeria House, a collaboration between Stratford East Theatre and New… Read More ›
ASAUK@50 events this week: 23rd & 24th October 2013, University of London and The British Museum
Wednesday, 23 October, 6:30-8PM |Kings College, London Mary Kingsley Zochonis Lecture – Adapting to climate change: Coping with the effects of weather changes in rural Sierra Leone, by Dr Kabba S. Bangura, Department of Geography, University of Sierra Leone Thursday, 24… Read More ›
Upcoming Africa-related and free exhibitions at the British Museum, both with associated events (Sowei mask event Feb 16).
Sowei mask: spirit of Sierra Leone |14/02 – 28/04 14/02 – 21/04 | Social Fabric: African Textiles today
Tate: ‘Across the Board’ – modern and contemporary African art and related programme in Africa
Tate are currently running a two-year project on African Art and its representation, with new acquisitions of modern and contemporary African art and a related programme in Africa. “The project invites local and international audiences to engage with artists, curators and… Read More ›