Tuesday, 11 August 2015

A SUNDAY AFTERNOON OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S SELF DISCOVERY




 Where else but the wonderful Tricycle Theatre, in Kilburn?
We were invited to explore William Shakespeare, whose 400th death anniversary is on 23rd April 2016.
Wow!

Saturday, 8 August 2015

THE UNPUBLICISED DEATH OF AFRICAN AMERICAN POET- AMIRI BARAKA



London poet and film maker, Nadeem Din- Gabisi speaking, briefly, to our blog this week.


When I was a teenager in the 1970s,  Leroi Jones belonged to the generation of the Black Panthers ,  Malcolm X ,  Martin Luther King, Amilcar Cabral, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Nelson Mandela, Steve Biko, Mangaliso Sobukwe, Abdulrahman Babu, Kwame Nkrumah,  Mwalimu Nyerere , i.e. the liberation movement against colonialism and national dignity.