Celebrating Soyinka at 80

Celebrating Soyinka at 80

This was after the broadcast to a global audience of Mazrui’s The Africans: A Triple Heritage, a famous TV and radio series. In a review of The Man Died: Prison Notes of Wole Soyinka, Mazrui did, in fact, describe Soyinka’s 1971 book as being irrational, and...
Opening up Africa to Bermuda

Opening up Africa to Bermuda

Creating new identity: ‘Sizwe Bansi Is Dead’ cast at City Hall Theatre. Pictured are (front) Matthew Amend as Sizwe Bansi and Niyl Corer Jr. A compelling play that touches on the ordinary man in a bygone South African era opened last night at the City Hall...