RAFIKI, is a love story directed by Wanuri Kahiu. Rafiki was banned in Kenya but after going to court, the ban was lifted for one week in order to be eligible for the Oscars and banned again after Read more [...]
Maybe it’s the heat. I’m in Greenwich. And there’s a graceful bow of light and heat before the festival of street theatre begins. Everyone seems a little lighter here. So I walk out by The Cutty Read more [...]
On February 24th I wrote a blog Abuse in Oaklands Children’s Home?”. In it I recall a memory of thirty years when in Oaklands childrens home a young boy told me he'd been abused. In the blog Read more [...]
I am lucky to have met some extraordinary women. This is Lebo Mashile. She is a poet, an actress and a TV presenter. Lebo's one of the most famous women in South Africa and one of the most powerful spirits Read more [...]
The Shrine’s on Malcom X blvd in the heart of Harlem. Umar Bin Hassan is sat on the island in the middle of the boulevard with Natasha “Lemn come sit here man” he says in his gravel voice Read more [...]
The adoptive mother describes the child whom they'd taken some years earlier from Ethiopia as having grown into a person with a wild look in her eyes. It was like seeing an exorcist. This is immediately Read more [...]
Every Ethiopian, Eritrean, American and European who has any interest in race, identity, loss, storytelling, psychology, childhood, religion, nationhood, documentary making, or intercontinental Read more [...]
This ALL WOMEN band have NEVER played live except here. Record companies across the world are shouting and screaming to sign them. Right now. If you trust me, that I don't say anything that isn't true, Read more [...]