Dear Friends of the Africa Centre
We're excited about the wide range of artforms and perspectives at the
Africa Centre in July. Our Comedy on Sundays is weekly at 8pm so if you
haven't already paid a visit come and witness the rise of talented comedians
including Prince Abdi, Josephine Lacey and more. This month's Africa On Film
series presents Lumumba, a film about the Congolese leader's life on 14 July
and we're also pleased to be helping to promote the Young Vic's A Season in
the Congo theatre show which opens this month and is selling out fast. Our
second film is Karmen Gei, a modern Senegalese reworking of the opera Carmen
(28 July), and on 27 July we team up with new and fast growing online
channel Millennium TV to show you some of the most currently watched films
and videos in Africa and the African diaspora, along with guest speakers
offering insights on new technology, social media, and innovation in African
film and TV. We are delighted that the Nobel prize winning writer Wole
Soyinka will be launching his new anthology of writing Memoirs for Our
Future on 20 July and as part of our ongoing commitment to the literature
artform, our second Africa Centre Readers Group is on 23 July, exploring a
theme of Change through readings, short talks and discussion - bring your
favourite extracts and books to share with us!
We look forward to seeing you at one or more of our events.
The Africa Centre team
Events at the Africa Centre
Africa Centre Comedy on Sundays
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The best in African & Caribbean Comedians from the UK & beyond
Every Sunday, 8pm, in partnership with The Top Secret Comedy Club
7 July
Nico Yearwood -
Jason Paterson -
Inder Manocha -
Josephine Lacey
14 July
Prince Abdi -
Josephine Lacey -
Nico Yearwood -
Jason Paterson
21 July
Nico Yearwood -
Jason Paterson -
Prince Abdi -
Josephine Lacey
28 July
Josephine Lacey -
Prince Abdi -
Nico Yearwood -
Jason Paterson
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14 July 2013
Africa on Film Series
Lumumba(2000)
Doors 2pm Film 2.30pm
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The true story of the rise to power and brutal assassination of the formerly
vilified and later redeemed leader of the independent Congo, Patrice
Lumumba. Using newly discovered historical evidence, Haitian-born and later
Congo-raised writer and director Raoul Peck renders an emotional and tautly
woven account of the mail clerk and beer salesman with a flair for oratory
and an uncompromising belief in the capacity of his homeland to build a
prosperous nation independent of its former Belgium overlords.
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20 July 2013
WS79 - Memoirs For Our Future
An Audience with Professor Wole Soyinka
3pm
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In a rare London appearance, internationally-renowned playwright and
Africa’s first Nobel Laureate for Literature, Professor Wole Soyinka, will
launch the publication of the Anthology Memoirs for Our Future to an
audience of young people aged 12-26, their families and guests. The
anthology offers a series of essays showcasing young writing talent, as well
as personal perspectives on culture, development, socio-politics and
leadership. It has been designed to herald a Open Door Series edition in
2014, under the title of WS80, that will mark Soyinka’s 80th anniversary.
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23 July 2013
Africa Centre Book Club
Doors 6pm Starts 6.30pm-9pm
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Join the Africa Centre for an evening focusing on the theme of 'change'
within African Literature and thought. Through invited speakers and our
popular format of an open forum discussion, we will explore great authors,
novels and poems that have addressed and signalled change, such as the work
of Ama ata Aidoo, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Bessie Head, Mariama Ba, Chinua Achebe,
Jean Sénac and Ahdaf Soeif. We anticipate many stimulating themes and
topical issues coming through the event, and encourage you to take part and
share your perspectives on literature from Africa and its diaspora.
To share a reading at the event please send us an email with your
suggestion; [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> .
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27 July 2013
Africa on Film: What's 'The New' in Film and Digital?
Screenings and Discussion
3pm-5pm
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The Africa Centre and Millennium TV are delighted to present a screening
and discussion event that will introduce audiences to some of the most
exciting and visited videos and channels in African digital content. Moving
between popular and avant-garde, the event will explore what innovations and
signals are arising for African film, television and online media and what
opportunities exist. The Q&A will feature Millennium TV's founder, Winston
Bell-Gam, and some of their media and community partners including MTV and
Go Getters, who offer a bridge between international entrepreneurs and
business opportunities in Africa. Millennium TV is an online television
channel dedicated to providing its global audience with focused, empowering
and informative video content, from ground-breaking films, to documentaries,
to talk shows, to coverage of burning community issues.
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28 July 2013
Africa on Film Series
Karmen Gei (2001)
Doors 2pm Film 2.30pm
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g]Made famous in an opera by Georges Bizet, the story of Carmen gets a new
and striking modern-dress adaptation in this provocative drama with music.
Directed by Joseph Gaï Ramaka, Karmen Gei is an inmate in a women's prison
in Senegal; lusty, impulsive, and looking out for herself at all times.
While inspired in part by Bizet's opera, Karmen Gai boats an all-new score
by David Murray, Julien Jouga, and Doudou Ndiaye Rose that draws on elements
of pop, jazz, and Afro-pop for its original themes.
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Coming soon.. Save the date!
Africa Centre Summer Festival 2013
3 & 4 August
A festival weekend of music, fashion, dance, food, performances and film in
and around Covent Garden Piazza curated by Yinka Shonibare MBE.
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NNEKA
DJ EDU
THE GRIOT'S TALE with Tunde Jegede, Patrice Naiambana, Bode Lawal, Taiwo
Emmanuel Jegede, Sunara Begum Wale Ojo & The London Afrobeat Collective
Celloman The Venus Bush Fires DRB Lasgidi Kasai Masai Bumi Thomas Plus a
Catwalk show from Africa Fashion Week London Photography courtesy of
Autograph Visual Art by Obotong Nkanga, Safaa Erruas and Nathalie Mba
Bikoro.
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The Africa Centre Recommends
8 July 2013
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ROOM 9
Brand new paranormal/sci-fi series exclusive to The Africa Channel 9pm
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Africa’s answer to The X-Files, CSI, The Walking Dead, and Doctor Who…..
Room 9, the hit drama that’s taken South Africa by storm, joins the
fantastic entertainment line-up of The Africa Channel with its UK Premiere
on Monday 8th July at 9pm.This 13-part series is set in a post-apocalyptic,
divided Pan-African world called ‘The New Azania’ and in a city that could
be Johannesburg, Kampala, Nairobi or Lagos.
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6 July - 17 August 2013
A Season in the Congo
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Pulsing with music and bursting with dance by acclaimed choreographer Sidi
Larbi Cherkaoui, this gripping drama charts the rise and fall of legendary
leader Patrice Lumumba whose passionate determination to free his people
from Belgian rule inspired great courage and betrayal.
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5,6,7 July 2013
Africa Writes 2013 at The British Library
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The British Library is partnering with the Royal African Society to host the
UK’s largest festival of African literature bringing together writers from
across the African continent and its diaspora to celebrate contemporary
African writing. The event will headline with a conversation between Ngugi
wa Thiong’o, Africa’s greatest living novelist and his son, Mukoma Ngugi, a
rising literary star.
Friday 5 July 2013
6.30pm -8.30pm
Diaspora Writes Back (Part of Africa Writes Festival) British Library
Conference Centre
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Warsan Shire, Nick Makoha, Nii Ayikwei Parkes and Leeto Thale. Introduced
and moderated by Bernardine Evaristo MBE. London-based African poets explore
notions of culture, migration, identity, and finding a voice during this
reflective poetry evening, followed by a discussion of their work.
£7.50 / £5 concessions
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13 July 2013
Bob Marley's Catch a Fire at Royal Festival Hall
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'A joyous, out-of-the seat performance.' Kevin LeGendre, Jazzwise Back by
popular demand after a sold out show in 2012, this sensational orchestral
interpretation of Bob Marley and the Wailers' iconic 1973 album features
Jazz Jamaica All Stars, the Urban Soul Orchestra, special guest Brinsley
Forde (Aswad) and a 240-voice Voicelab choir in a melodic, dynamic and
heart-lifting musical tribute.
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18 July 2013
Noumoucounda Cissoko and Band at Rich Mix 8pm
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Hailed as the new 'Jimi Hendrix of Africa', Noumoucanda explores the
possibilities of the Kora. Accompanied here with bass, drums and featuring
Ramon Goose (guitar) and Khalifa Conte (percussion), Cissoko cleverly moves
between genres of the West, blues, jazz and rock which he blends with his
own traditional and Senegalese pop, Mbalax.
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Notable Events
3-22 July 2013
Meschac Gaba: Museum of Contemporary African Art at Tate Modern
Immerse yourself in Meschac Gaba’s Museum of Contemporary African Art
1997–2002, a 12-room installation which reflects on the nature of the museum
and blurs the boundaries between art and the everyday.
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4 July 2013
Caine Prize Events, Royal Over-seas League 7pm
A relaxed evening with the nominees of the 2013 Caine Prize. Each author
will read a short extract from their work, after which there will be an
opportunity to meet them over a glass of complimentary wine and canapés.
Tickets: £7, Concessions: £6,
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17 July 2013
FLORIDITA LIVE Presents THE MANKALA BAND + The Steady Rollin’ Revue Doors
7pm
This is a unique chance to see Bristol Urban Roots band, Mankala perform
their “High Energy-Pan-African-Influenced-Sounds”. Since its origins, the
band has transformed and adapted... yet has always maintained the original
core energy and philosophy: “Good vibes produce good music, good music
produce good vibes”!
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19 July 2013
Tribute To Jayne Cortez
7pm
An Evening of poetry, music and memories celebrating an African American
Poet Extraordinaire, active in the struggle for black social liberation and
for radical, political and social change in the USA. Artists will include
Linton Kwesi Johnson, John Agard and more.
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25/26/27/28 July 2013
WOMAD Festival
World of Music, Arts and Dance the internationally established Festival,
which brings together artists from all over the globe. The central aim of
the WOMAD festival is to celebrate the world's many forms of music, arts and
dance.
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