Bocas Literary Fest Announces Programme
The Bocas Lit Fest is the first Trinidad and Tobago Literary Festival: an annual celebration of books, writers, and writing, with a Caribbean focus and international scope.
Remembering Loleatta Holloway
Chicago Native and accalimed singer Loleata Holloway passed from a recent illness . She got her start singing Gospel music in Chicago churches.
Nelson Mandela’s 46664 Organization Creates Fashion Line
The South Africa-based 46664 organization has announced a licensing agreement with Cape Town-based Seardel Investment Corporation Limited that will see the launch of a 46664 global apparel brand in the second half of 2011.
18th Annual New York African Film Festival Features Exciting Films
The Film Society of Lincoln Center (FSLC) and African Film Festival, Inc. (AFF) will present the 18th New York African Film Festival (NYAFF) in celebration of the United Nations International Year of Peoples of African Descent, which serves as the festival’s guiding theme.
What We Want: The Reality Show”Growing Up African”
We found this via Mimi and we’re very excited to see the show. Growing Up African is a new reality show based on a tight knit Tanzanian family in the United States.
Local Art: Meet Tennessee Potter Jim McDowel
Pottery is such a beautiful art form. You have the chance to shape earth into a work of art. In The State of Tennessee, located in the Southern portion of the United States , potter Jim McDowell creates face jugs that tell ancestral stories and celebrate current day triumphs.
“I Will Follow” Gets Rave Reviews
“I Will Follow” by Ava DuVernay is getting positive national feed here in the United States. The film is about Maye (Salli Richardson-Whitfield) is a success.
Sugarcane Recommends: Reflections on the Self: Five African Women Photographers
The new Hayward Touring exhibition Reflections on the Self presents women’s visual narratives, as told through self-portraits and portraits of other women.
Sugarcane Book Club Recommends: “Dreams in a Time of War: A Childhood Memoir by Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Ngugi is an internationally acclaimed Kenyan playwright, journalist, writer and professor. His theatrical work changed the way Theatre was experienced in Kenya and his work has been an inspiration and example to many writers around the world.
Ziggy Marley’s MARIJUANAMAN Debuts in April
He’s a Grammy Award-winning musician, an irrefutable Reggae star, and staunch environmental and social activist. In April, ZIGGY MARLEY steps into another creative arena with the release of MARIJUANAMAN from Image Comics.
