Interview with Shakespearean actress Noma Dumezweni
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... Read more.
Review: Fela at the National Theatre
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... Read more.
Interview with David Harewood and review of Welcome to Thebes
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,... Read more.
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone at the Young Vic
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... Read more.
If We Must Die: Shipboard Insurrections…the Atlantic Slave Trade
This essential contribution to the history of the Atlantic Slave Trade and the Holocaust against the African people conducted by western European... Read more.
Black Panther Party – The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas
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... Read more.
The Secret Life of Words How English Became English
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... Read more.