Lalla Badi and Tinariwen : Modern Tuareg music at the source
For any tuareg music fan, the concert given by legendary singer Lalla Badi and Tinariwen, was a...
Chimamanda Adichie’s got a short story, “Jumping Monkey Hill”, in which her protagonist, Ujunwa, a young Nigerian writer is stuck in a literary retreat in Cape ...
How did you get here?
Through following my nose and being genuinely curious about things. I’ve always been interested in finding out why the human race has c...
Salt and Pepper: The Rise of the Mixed-Race African Songstress
Music is in many ways an exploration of who we are. In recent times, more and more singers o...
Many things have been written about Lagos, and the things that happen here. You may have read that it’s the only city worthy of the title “city” in Nigeria, and...
How did you get here?
I came to London from Canada, via Amsterdam and Leeds. I came here for work and love, made it through school and am now here indefinitel...
Lola Shoneyin, Author, The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives, and Director, Ake Book and Arts Festival, at rehearsals ahead of the inauguration of Nigeria's new...
South African company The Darling Music Experience make their UK debut at the Tricycle with the infamous story of Don Giovanni, re-imagined as you've never seen...
It is now a near-cliché, but it is the truth; African literature is undergoing a renaissance. The reader who loves fiction is enjoying an embarrassment of riche...
The oral history of the sector is that at some event in 1994 a number of artists discussed with Marie McCluskey, a senior dance practitioner, the idea...