A life lived in music, recalled in music in play written by UMSL professor
Miriam Makeba, the internationally famed singer and civil rights activist from South Africa, actually died on stage. Read more:...
Faaji Agba,Ota Benga and 30 other Documentaries to be Screened at iREP 2016
The 2016 i-Represent International Documentary Film Festival is the sixth edition of the popular annual festival, which is the biggest on the West African coast and it is scheduled to hold from the Thursday 24th to Sunday 27th March 2016, at Freedom Park, Broad...
Two Miriam’s in ‘Mama Africa’ musical
LONG before world music became a genre, before Paul Simon met Ray Phiri, and before Ladysmith Black Mambazo started winning Grammys, Miriam Makeba introduced international audiences to South African music. The singer and civil rights activist, who began her career in...
The EBCCI Film Club – Oto Benga
Date:March 3, 2016 Time:7:00 pm To Location:Errol Barrow Centre for Creative Imagination, UWI, Cave Hill, St. Michael Event Description The Errol Barrow Centre for Creative Imagination Film Club presents Oto BengaSpecial Guest: Professor Niyi Coker...
World Premiere of Niyi Coker Jr & Jean Bodon film OTA BENGA (Human in a cage.)
Please come out to the Smithsonian Institute - Museum of African Art for the World Premiere of Niyi Coker, Jr & Jean Bodon film "Ota Benga" on November 1st 2015 at 2pm. "He was removed from Africa and housed in a cage with primates at the Bronx Zoo, as...
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...
It should be a very emphatic story to many
Matthew Amend and Vanika Spencer, members of the Circuit Theatre Company of Missouri play the roles of Mr and Mrs Olumorin in ‘Camwood on the Leaves’ coming to Bermuda this week. An American theatre company will perform at City Hall as a fundraiser for cancer charity...
A Drive for Direction: Director, Professor and Filmmaker Adeniyi Coker Hits the Madrid International Film Festival
Growing up in Lagos, Nigeria, Adeniyi A. Coker Jr. (a.k.a. ’Niyi) wasn’t interested in becoming a lawyer like his father. Instead, he wrote plays. “If you ask any of my high-school classmates, that’s what they remember me for,” says Coker. “I always had a fresh play...
‘BOOTH!’ Holds NY Premiere at Skirball Center 6/2 – 6/7
Booth! an exciting new musical, will have its New York premiere at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at New York University from June 2 through June 7. An examination of the life of 19th Century maverick actor Edwin Booth, Booth! features music by...
Africa World Documentary Film Festival at the EBCCI
MARCH 12-15, 2009 Welcome to the Barbados section of the second annual Africa World Documentary Film Festival, based in St. Louis, Missouri. This year’s Festival features a partnership between the Center for International Studies at the University of Missouri-St....