Culture

SELAM @ Stockholms Kulturfestival

Aster Aweke & Masinko Band X Alpha Blondy & The Solar System Sunny Ethiopian grooves, all in with iconic Ms. Aster Aweke, reggae à la Ivory Coast with ...

Imperial Exile: Lecture and Book Launch

This year is the 80th anniversary of the arrival in Bath of Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia. Ethiopian Association of Students & Youth in the UK  (EASY...

Palm Wine Beats Live!

Following on from the hugely successful Icons of Wu event in March, arts collective Soul Labels presents a one-day festival of all things Africa and the diaspor...

#HowToFixNigeria: Dismantling Patriarchy

A special Africa Utopia edition of the Royal African Society's  popular #HowToFixNigeria panel series with Fatimah Kelleher, Dorcas Erskine and Elnathan John (T...

THE AFRICAN JAZZ CAFÉ

  Join Southbank Centre weekend residents Tomorrow's Warriors Youth Ensemble, conducted by Binker Golding, on a tour of Africa jazz giants. Connect w...

AFRICA UTOPIA SOCIAL DANCE

Learn traditional and contemporary dances from South and West Africa and get a feel for the rhythms of African music. The Clore Ballroom plays host to an aft...

MEET THE AUTHOR: LEILA ABOULEL

Hear Leila Aboulela read from and discuss her new novel The Kindness of Enemies. Aboulela has won a Scottish Book Award and the Caine Prize, and has been lon...

TERAKAFT

Hear a genuine desert rock band, sculpted by the searing air and shifting sands of the Sahara. Terakaft’s name means ‘caravan’ in Tamasheq, and its musicians...

TAWIAH

Hear this singer-songwriter and DJ bring her much-lauded talent to Friday Tonic. Tawiah’s sound is unprocessed and uncompromising, her a voice a singular ins...

AFRO DANCE XPLOSION 2016 – “The Masters”

Witness a performance by dancers of the African diaspora, brought together by London’s Afro Dance Xplosion. To give you a sense of the scope of African and A...