Event Review: Africa Utopia @ the Southbank Centre: ‘The Mandela Trilogy’
For the uninitiated, a night at the opera can be an intimidating prospect. This might well remain the case even with an accessible…
Miss Resilience: An Interview with Louise Golbey
Louise Golbey is a woman on a mission. She needs to find somewhere to charge her phone. Having arranged to meet at London’s…
Theatre Review: ‘Counting Stars’ by Atiha Sen Gupta @ The Theatre Royal Stratford East
Nigerian immigrants Abiodun (Lanre Malaolu) and Sophie (Estelle Daniels) are a chalk’n’cheese couple working as lavatory attendants at Paradise, a South London nightclub. It’s…
Highlights from the 2016 Africa Writes Festival – Theatre Review: ‘The Immigrant’ by Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor
100 years from now and, oh, how the tables have turned. Oliver (Edmund Wiseman) is a Brit seeking refuge in the economically-strong African Union…
Music, Moods, Wanderlust and the Triangle of Peace: Interview with Clarisse Albrecht
By Tola Ositelu It’s been nearly six years since singer/songwriter Clarisse Albrecht – aka the Mulata Universal – first came to my attention. Her…
Film Review: Timbuktu
By Tola Ositelu Pan-African Jihadists descend on a peaceful village in the Malian capital, disrupting the lives of the hard-working inhabitants. African and Arab…
Film Review: Samba
By Tola Ositelu Senegalese illegal immigrant Samba Cissé (Omar Sy) is trying to regularise his stay in France after being picked up by the…
Theatre Review: ‘My Children! My Africa!’ by Athol Fugard @ The Tristan Bates, London
By Tola Ositelu 1984, South Africa. Impoverished but promising 18-year old student Thami Mbakwena (Nathan Ives-Moiba) finds a kindred spirit in Isabel Dyson (Rose…
Album Review: ‘House’ by We’ll Make It Right
By Tola Ositelu A collaborative project featuring two of my favourite artists from mainland Europe? Yes, please. Late autumn 2014 saw the release of Dutch…
Film Review: Concerning Violence
By Tola Ositelu Dogwoof Productions and Scandinavian filmmaker Goran Hugo Olsson present ‘Concerning Violence’, a sobering look at the anti-colonial struggle across various African…