Three quarters of the way through the Royal Shakespeare Company’s (RSC) London Roundhouse Season actor Noma Dumezweni can relax for a bit. Appearing in three of the Company’s six productions the Swaziland born, Suffolk-raised actor is excited about the next phase of the Season’s tour back at the RSC’s reconstructed and soon to be relaunched…
Already a Tony winning sensation in the US, the musical biography on stage of Afrobeat pioneer Fela Anikulapo Kuti is set to have the same impact on audiences at London’s National Theatre. Delivering a potent cocktail of pan-Africanism, militant demands and multilayered and polyrhythmic beats wrapped up in a fusion of West African highlife music…
Welcome to Thebes is the latest in a genre of plays looking at Africa through liberal interventionist lens and follows in the footsteps of The Overwhelming, Ruined, Breakfast with Mugabe and The Observer. Inspired by Greek mythology, written by Moira Buffini and directed by the acclaimed Richard Eyre, the play portrays a female president –…
When strange and mysterious Herald Loomis arrives, young daughter in tow, searching for his wife the carefully set balance of the tenants passing through Seth and Bertha Holly’s Pittsburgh Boarding House is shaken. Written in 1985n and performed on Broadway in 1988, and staged at our own Tricycle Theatre two decades ago; the second in…
This essential contribution to the history of the Atlantic Slave Trade and the Holocaust against the African people conducted by western European
At the high point of the Liberation Struggle of the African Americans in the 1960s the Black Panther Party for Self Defence emerged as the US manifestation of a worldwide radical movement. Founded in 1966 October by law student Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale in Oakland, California, the organisation’s heritage is often reduced to…
In a comprehensive evaluation of the English language, this entertaining book is more than just a survey of where English is spoken and why it has become the lingua franca of the global community. Henry Hitchings, a Cambridge University academic, traces the development of the language of the island of Britain from its origins in…