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To Black Women, Miriam Makeba’s Life Is Forever A Song

Makeba was able to overcome her insurmountable difficulties with song but I wondered; what happens to those who do not manage to fold away their pain? The confident young black woman sitting on my left startles me with a sudden burst of tears in the dark. We are...
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Miriam Makeba magnificently honored in ‘Mama Africa the Musical’

In the early 1960s she was introduced to the world by singer and activist Harry Belafonte, singing in her incredible, unique South African vocalizing style of yells, chants, hums and scats woven into the electrifying soulfulness and spiritual vibrations of African...
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By CONOR DOYLE

SOUTH African playwright Athol Fugard’s modern, apartheid-era classic Sizwe Banzi is Dead is being preformed this week at City Hall. On Tuesday, reporter CONOR DOYLE had a chance to speak with actors Niyi Coker and Matthew Amend. Mr. Coker (whose first name is...

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 Theatre....