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WHAT’S ON THE BRITAIN–NIGERIA EDUCATIONAL TRUST (Registered Charity No. 1120876) The Africa Centre, 3rd Floor 38 King Street, LONDON WC2E 8JT
From 14 September – 30 November 2011 Nigeria-specific events: all information in blue New events entered since last list: date and time in orange
Until 24 September Jerwood Theatre Tickets £20 The Royal Court Theatre presents Upstairs TRUTH AND RECONCILLIATION ROYAL COURT 4pm / 7pm and 9pm By Debbie Tucker Green THEATRE Further information:
Sloane Square BOX OFFICE: 020 7565 5000 See Dates and London SW1W 8AS ADMINISTRATION: 020 7565 5050 Tickets for specific dates/times To Book Tickets http://www.royalcour ttheatre.com/whats- http://www.royalcourttheatre.com on/truth-and- /whats-on/truth-and-reconciliation reconciliation
Rwanda to Northern Ireland, Zimbabwe to Bosnia answers are demanded, reconciliation hard to hear and the truth reluctant to be told.
DebbieTucker Green’s previous credits include Random at the Royal Court, Theatre Local and tour and Stoning Mary. Her other plays include Generations at the Young Vic, trade for the RSC and Dirty Butterfly at Soho. She won the 2004 Olivier Award for Most Promising Newcomer for born bad at Hampstead Theatre. On film, she wrote and directed the short film, heat and she has written and directed a film of Random for Channel 4.
Truth and Reconciliation will be moving to Theatre Local, sponsored by Bloomberg. Details to be announced.
Running time 1hr 10mins approx
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Mary Seacole Room Contact: Siobhan Renihan Wednesday 14 Sept LSHTM Department of Immunology Autumn Seminar Series G1 [email protected] MALARIA TALKS LSHTM Telephone: 020 7637 4314 12:30 pm presented by the Department of Immunology and Infection 15-17 Tavistock Place London WC1H 9SH
Admission: Free and open to all Dr Samudu Britton No ticket required. Department of Infectious Diseases, the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Australia Entry is on a first LAMP for malaria diagnosis - progress towards a high-throughput assay come, first served basis. Dr Nahla Gadalla LSHTM Candidate molecular markers of drug resistance in Plasmodium falciparum and clinical response to artemether-lumefantrine in Eastern Sudan Chair Dr Colin Sutherland
Thursday 15 Sept October Gallery For more information: – Saturday 29 Oct October Gallery 24 Old Gloucester OWUSU-ANKOMAH Street Margaree Cotten The Gallery is open London WC1N 3AL 020 7242 7367 from 12:30 to 17:30 MICROCRON-KUSUM from Tuesday to [email protected] Saturday the Gallery Café is open 12:30 - 1:30, Tuesdays to Fridays
October Gallery will exhibit a body of new works by the renowned artist Owusu-Ankomah. Born in Sekondi, Ghana, in 1956, Owusu-Ankomah pursued studies in Fine Arts at Ghanatta College in Accra before moving to Bremen, Germany where he now lives and works. His charged paintings on canvas depict an alternate world wherein monumental human figures – his core motif – are shown moving within an ocean of signs that surround, support and, in fact, define them. The way in which these figures coexist and interact with various symbolic sets has developed through distinct phases over time, reflecting Owusu-Ankomah’s own journey of spiritual discovery.
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Friday 16 Sept 9th LONDON AFRICAN MUSIC FESTIVAL Royal Festival Hall Further information 1:30pm Foyer Southbank www.southbankcentre.co.uk DAVID 0 + LEO MKANYIA (Tanzania ) Centre Free Belvedere Road 0844 847 9910 London SE1 8XX
Guitarist and vocalist David Osuhon is of the new names on the London African music scene. Still a student, he shows a remarkable talent for someone so young.
Tanzanian blues guitarist Leo Mkanyia completes the afternoon session with his blues sound that recalls the wonder of the King of African Blues, Ali Farka Touré
Friday 16 September Chatham House Non-members Chatham House 10 St James's Square and interested individuals 4.00-5.00pm SOUTH AFRICA’S HEALTH POLICY AND HIV London should apply to Tighisti Amare SW1Y 4LE
Honourable Dr Pakishe Aaron Motsoaledi, Minister of Health, Republic of South Africa T: +44 (0)20 7957 5700 F: +44 (0)20 7957 5710 South Africa has one of the largest HIV-infected populations in the world, and policymakers E: [email protected] face a number of challenges in delivering health services.
All applications must be made Dr Motsoaledi will discuss his government’s health policies, with an emphasis on those aimed by email. at tackling HIV. The meeting will enable discussion about how other countries including the UK might learn from South Africa’s experience in addressing their own healthcare needs.
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Friday 16 September 9th LONDON AFRICAN MUSIC FESTIVAL Queen Elizabeth Hall Further information Southbank Centre www.southbankcentre.co.uk 5pm NAHINI FOUNBIA AND LES ESPOIRS DU MALI Belvedere Road Free London SE1 8XX 0844 847 9910
Born in Ivory Coast, Nahini Doumbia started playing djembe and percussion at the age of ten, under the guidance of djembefola Aboubacar Bamba. Nahini fled the Ivory Coast in 2002 during the civil war to settle in Mali, his father’s homeland. His first Malian project was to raise AIDS awareness in schools through music and theatre. In 2003 he embarked on a 2 month-long tour of Taiwan with Sabary, a dance and percussion company from Ivory Coast, featuring in several music festivals around the country.
In 2007 Nahini founded his first group, ‘Les Espoirs du Mali’. The group soon became one of the most popular percussion groups in the Bamako District. Over the past few years Nahini has led numerous percussion workshops in Bamako, France and in the UK where he now lives.
He is making his mark on the London multi-cultural scene and beyond, performing with musicians from France, Ethiopia, Algeria and South Africa
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Friday 16 Sept The Embassy of Mexico in Nigeria Silverbird Cinemas For more information: Mexican Film Festival behind Yar'adua http://hausahomevideoresourcece Opening Reception DUTY by Mak Kusare Centre ntre.wordpress.com/author/hausa 6pm Abuja homevideoresourcecentre
Film Screening Film Screening Jovi 7-10:30pm 7-10:30pm 0803 4506 245
Macario (Mexican) Yomi 0803 7000 270 Duty (Nigerian)
Friday 16 Sept The Frontline Club Screening The Frontline Club You need to be registered to The Nigerian Connection (2011) 13 Norfolk Place book events at the Frontline Club: 7pm London W2 1QJ Tel: +44 (0)20 7479 Standard price: 8950 for Screenings £10 Closest Tube Station: for Talks £12.50. Paddington A number of tickets are available at a discounted price £8 for Screenings and £10 for talks.
Followed by a Q&A with Producer/Reporter Juliana Ruhfus Members can book and and Director Orlando von Einsiedel attend events for free
The Nigerian Connection explores the web of organised crime, prostitution and human http://frontlineclub.com/events/h trafficking stretching from West Africa to Europe. It exposes the work of the mafia-style gangs ow-to-book-events.html operating in towns and villages across Nigeria who exploit men, women, and children for their criminal activities from drugs to sex slavery
In Italy the Nigerian gangs come into direct conflict with the traditional Italian mob members but their influence has nonetheless spread across Europe. The Nigerian Connection investigates the plight of the men and women caught up in this web of crime, exploitation and violence and asks important question of how its spread can be stopped. How can two continents unite to save lives?
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Friday 16 September Purcell Room Further information The 9th LONDON AFRICAN MUSIC FESTIVAL Southbank Centre www.southbankcentre.co.uk 7:30pm Belvedere Road INEZZ MEZEL (Algeria /France) London SE1 8XX 0844 847 9910
Iness Mezel brings her French and North African fusion blues to London for her only UK show in 2011. Mezel is a perfect modern fusion artist. With a French-Italian mother and an Algerian-Kabyle father, she was raised in both France and Algeria. From this wonderful cultural mix emerged a sharp musical mind coupled with a passionate vocal style.
Friday 16 Sept Africa Centre The Africa Centre For more information: PROJECT F! Treckstock Fundraiser 38 King Street [email protected] 8pm – 2am London WC2E 8JT
FREE ADMISSION – Tickets £15 All Welcome but http://www.etickets.to/buy/?e=72 please register to 18 confirm attendance
an exciting programme of live music, African dance and special guest DJs including performances by Unchenna Dance, Afrikan Boy & Fair Ohs
In collaboration with Radio 1 & 1Xtra’s presenters Huw Stephens & Gemma Cairney, the PROJECT F! fundraiser aims to raise funds for a trek up Mount Kenya for Trekstock, a charity that funds the research of cancer that affects young people.
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Friday 16 Sep Upstairs at the Ritzy Tickets £7 / £6 THE 9th LONDON AFRICAN MUSIC FESTIVAL EXTRAS Coldharbour Lane £5 Members 8:30pm Upstairs at the Ritzy London SW2 1JG For more information: THABANI NYONI 0871 704 2065 www.joyfulnoise.co.uk/lamf.htmL
www.upstairsattherit zy.co.uk
The London-based Zimbabwean musician plays a blend of Afrobeat, funk and soul in support of his album Child Of Independence
th Friday 16 September The 9 LONDON AFRICAN MUSIC FESTIVAL Queen Elizabeth Hall, Further information Friday 9 – Sunday 18 September 2011 South Bank Centre, www.southbankcentre.co.uk 9pm London Tiken Jah Fakoly (Ivory Coast) Tickets : 0844 847 9910
Tiken Jah Fakoly is one of Africa's most gifted reggae artists. Fusing his infectious reggae beat and African grooves with hard-hitting lyrics, Fakoly has become a spokesperson for a generation of music fans, speaking out on political and social issues through his songs. His huge success in France , where his last CD sold over 500,000 copies, has made him the biggest-selling African reggae artist of all time.
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Beginning 17 The Centre for Excellence in Film and Media Studies and Amaka Igwe Studios The Centre for For more information: September present an 8 week-weekends only Excellence in Film and Media Studies Tomi – 08023 525 104 SCREENWRITING, PRODUCING AND DIRECTING WORKSHOP Amaka Igwe Studios or come to led by Lagos Amaka Igwe, Charles Igwe, Chris Ihidero & Leke Badiru 44A Palm Avenue MKO Abiola Gardens
Alaus Workshop open to 25 participants Ikeja, Lagos
fee N50, 000 to cover training materials, tea/coffee break and lunch
Kindly make payments into account: 202148350115 Centre for Excellence in Film and Media Studies.GT Bank.
Saturday 17 Sept The 9th LONDON AFRICAN MUSIC FESTIVAL Front Room at the Further information KADIALY KOUYATE AND SOUND ARCHIVE Queen Elizabeth Hall www.southbankcentre.co.uk 1pm Southbank Centre Belvedere Road 0844 847 9910 Free London SE1 8XX
Born into the great line of Kouyate griots in Southern Senegal, Kadialy Kouyate was clearly destined to become a musician. Kadialy draws on his West African heritage and its traditional songs to create his own mesmerising compositions.
With his UK-based band 'Sound Archive' he blends melodious lines from the kora into a multi- layered tonal palette that is complimented by the rest of the band
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Saturday 17 Sept Gasworks Talk Gasworks Further information from: 155 Vauxhall Street [email protected] 2-4pm London SE11 5RH +44 (0)20 7587 5202
JENNIFER BAJOREK ON BAUDOUIN MOUANDA Jennifer Bajorek, Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College, discusses Baudouin Mouanda’s exhibition at Gasworks. She looks at the value of collectivity and peer- led networking to young West African photographers of his generation and the ways in which lens-based practices provide a useful insight into the development of a continent.
Saturday 17 Sept October Gallery October Gallery Free Admission Artist Talk 24 Old Gloucester 3pm Street Further information OWUSU-ANKOMAH London WC1N 3AL [email protected] 0207 2427 367
Photo Credit: Owusu-Ankomah: Dagma Calais Owusu-Ankomah talks about his work, artistic practise, the exploration of sacred sites and the creation of signs and symbols. The artist muses about the possibility of parallel coexistence in multi-dimensional universes.
Saturday 17 Sept The 9th LONDON AFRICAN MUSIC FESTIVAL Purcell Room Further information THE VOCAL ENSEMBLE OF AFRICA Southbank Centre www.southbankcentre.co.uk 3pm Belvedere Road London SE1 8XX 0844 847 9910
Six singers from 6 countries combine multiple influences to create passionate harmonies, rich melodies and vocal textures fused together by singers Juwon Ogungbe (Nigeria); Eugene Makuta (Congo), Zyta Zebinin (Ivory Coast), Essence Kasozi (Uganda), Joyce Moholoagae (South Africa) and Thomas Moyo (Zimbabwe) and their four-piece band featuring Kaz Kasozi (guitar), Renell Shaw (bass), Soji Ijaduola (drums) and Billy Doumbia
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Saturday 17 Sept The Embassy of Mexico in Nigeria Silverbird Cinemas Further information: Mexican Film Festival behind Yar'adua http://hausahomevideoresourcece 4-11pm Nigerian film CIKI DAYA will be shown Centre ntre.wordpress.com/author/hausa Abuja homevideoresourcecentre
Film Screening Jovi 4-11pm 0803 4506 245 & El Estudiante Yomi (Mexican) 0803 7000 270
Ahi Esta El Detalle (Mexican)
Ciki Daya (Hausa)
Espiral (Mexican)
Isyaku Jalingo’s Hausa film Ciki Daya (which won Best Nigerian Language film at the Zuma Film Festival 2010) on 17 September 2011 will be shown
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Saturday 17 Sept Roxy Bar and Screen £5.00 in advance or £7.00 on the Black History Walks 128-132 Borough door 4-6pm prompt start High Street http://www.wegottickets.com/eve
London SE1 1LB nt/132798 Over 15s only Hidden Colours: Secret History of Moors, Africans and Aborigines Features Francis Cress Welsing, Tareeq Nasheed and Booker T Coleman
The film features scholars, historians, and social commentators who discuss: * Black Businessmen in London in 1810 *The great West and Central African empires of the 1300s *African sailors in America before Columbus
Saturday 17 Sept The 9th LONDON AFRICAN MUSIC FESTIVAL Front Room at the Further information MARCINA ARNOLD (South Africa/ UK) Queen Elizabeth Hall www.southbankcentre.co.uk 5.30pm Foyer Southbank Centre 0844 847 9910 Free Belvedere Road London SE1 8XX
A highly original soul-jazz singer who mixes the rhythms of her South African origin with driving funk grooves from the London scene
Saturday 17 Sept The 9th LONDON AFRICAN MUSIC FESTIVAL Purcell Room Further information FUNMI OLAWUMI (Nigeria) Southbank Centre www.southbankcentre.co.uk 7:30pm Belvedere Road London SE1 8XX 0844 847 9910
Funmi Olawumi steps out with songs driven by her own unique rhythms which emerged from the Nigerian party scene, where hi-life, afobeat, juju and fuji rhythms are mixed together. Funmi Olawumi calls her music 'Faaji' music, meaning 'good time' in Yoruba and this is what she creates with her hand-picked ten-piece band powered by producer and bassist Femi Sofela
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Saturday 17 Sept THE 9th LONDON AFRICAN MUSIC FESTIVAL EXTRAS Tickets £7 / £6 Upstairs at the Ritzy Upstairs at the Ritzy £5 Members 8.30pm Coldharbour Lane YAABA FUNK (Various) London SW2 1JG For more information: The pride of Brixton - Yaaba Funk bring their explosive mix of Hi-Life and Afro-Funk to this www.upstairsattheritzy.co.uk festival session 0871 704 2065
www.southbankcentre.co.uk 0844 847 9910
“A floor-filling extravaganza combining the tightest rhythm section this side of Accra, fat analogue basslines, blazing horns, sparkling African and gritty rock guitars”
Saturday 17 Sept The 9th LONDON AFRICAN MUSIC FESTIVAL Front Room Further information Queen Elizabeth Hall www.southbankcentre.co.uk 9pm RAY LEMA TRIO and SAKA SAKA ORCHESTRA (Congo / France) Southbank Centre Belvedere Road 0844 847 9910 London SE1 8XX
Revered Paris-based Congolese pianist Ray Lema is one of the most innovative and creative names in African music. A classical trained pianist and church organist (who studied to be a Catholic priest), Lema performs a special two-part concert at Queen Elizabeth Hall.
Sunday 18 Sept The 9th LONDON AFRICAN MUSIC FESTIVAL Front Room Further information RUBY AND THE VINES, Congo/ UK Queen Elizabeth Hall www.southbankcentre.co.uk 1pm Southbank Centre Belvedere Road 0844 847 9910 Ruby and the Vines, fronted by Congolese/English vocalist/bassist Binisa Bonner, fuse London SE1 8XX influences as diverse as rock, Congolese roots music, jazz, afro-beat and reggae.
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Sunday 18 Sept The 9th LONDON AFRICAN MUSIC FESTIVAL Purcell Room Further information HASSAN ERRAJI (Morocco) Southbank Centre www.southbankcentre.co.uk 3pm Marrakech's internationally acclaimed blind master-musician and singer Hassan Erraji Belvedere Road embraces a thoroughly current and very danceable contemporary global sound driven by London SE1 8XX 0844 847 9910 Derbuka-Berber rhythms. This is music that burns with passion across a glamorous mosaic of lush Arabic oud and qanun power-chords and soaring taarab-style strings . Joined by keyboardist Matt Evens, bassist Adam Westerman, drummer Joe Montague and violinist Angeline Bjerregaard, Erraji performs tracks from the album Awal Mara (World Village) produced by Kaiser Chiefs producer Dave Creffield and described as the best recording of his career.
Sunday 18 Sept The 9th LONDON AFRICAN MUSIC FESTIVAL Front Room Queen Further information THE RHYTHMS Elizabeth Hall www.southbankcentre.co.uk 5:30pm Southbank Centre Belvedere Road 0844 847 9910 Free London SE1 8XX
a brand new band formed recently by bassist Femi Sofela mixing afrobeat with jazz grooves
Sunday 18 Sept The 9th LONDON AFRICAN MUSIC FESTIVAL Purcell Room Further information Southbank Centre www.southbankcentre.co.uk 7:30pm DOBET GNAHORE (Ivory Coast) Belvedere Road London SE1 8XX 0844 847 9910
Dobet Gnahore,one of the most soulful of the new generation African divas draws heavily on the traditional music of the Ivory Coast and explores many other African genres to create a diverse, Pan-African pop-influenced sound that is all her own. She sings in more than eight different languages and her lyrics speak about the issues of women in Africa, as well as many social issues. She performs tracks from her new album Djekpa La You
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Sunday 18 Sept The 9th LONDON AFRICAN MUSIC FESTIVAL Queen Elizabeth Hall Further information Southbank Centre www.southbankcentre.co.uk 9pm ORCHESTRA NATIONAL DE BARBÉS (Algeria /France) Belvedere Road London SE1 8XX 0844 847 9910
Paris-based Arabic super group Orchestre National de Barbès are one of France's great musical exports. A truly rocking band featuring 13 brilliant individuals, they combine rai, rock, gnawa and great grooves to create music that breaks boundaries.
Orchestre National De Barbès mix of Middle Eastern and African grooves with Parisian panache and bravado reign supreme. They perform tracks from their new CD Rendez-vous Barbes (Le Chant du Monde) showcasing a band at the peak of its creative power.
Mon 19 Sept SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES School of Oriental Further information from: - Thurs 22 Sept and African Studies Angelica Baschiera GOVERNANCE AND STATE BUILDING IN AFRICA London WC1H 0XG Centre of African Studies, SOAS [email protected]
+44 207 898 4370 A one-week training programme
- The fee for the four day programme is £1000 (VAT is not applicable)
- Daily Fee is £300 - If more than one person from the same organisation attends, there is a 10% discount - Registration will close one week prior to the start of the programme
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Monday 19 Sept Institute of Commonwealth Studies and School of Advance Study University of London Institute of Further information Commonwealth http://commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/fil 5:30-8pm Studies eadmin/documents/Events/YaramS Indians of African descent: Identity and Music University of London ept.pdf G22/26 Senate House In celebration of the “International Year for People of African descent, 2011”, as designated Malet Street by the United Nations, vibrant performances of Ngoma/Dhamal and Daff of the Sidis (Indians Entrance free but please RSVP to London WC1E 7HU of African descent) will be the focus of this event [email protected]
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/m edia-services/single- view/news/the_african_diaspora_i n_asia_trade_routes_and_cultural_ memories/
Film: Tradition of the Faqirs (Voices of the Sidis). Produced by Beheroze Shroff, University of California, Irvine (USA) Lecture by Dr Shihan de Silva (Senior Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies) Discussion Njok Malik Jeng, Yaram Arts
Monday 19 Sept HARARE NORTH Durning Library £2 donation with Brian Chikwava 167 Kennington Lane 6.45pm London SE11 4HF For more information: [email protected] Lambeth Libraries Blue Star House 234-244 Stockwell Road London SW9 9SP
020 7926 8682
Zimbabwean writer and musician Brian Chikwava lives in Lambeth, where his novel Harare North is set. A story of scams, scrapes and survival in a city of migrants, it focuses on a young Mugabe supporter in a land far from home.
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Monday 19 Sept Fortissimo Room Further information Hyatt Regency Hotel Anna Owen 8.00-9.15pm Birmingham Events & Projects Director
The Foreign Policy Centre WHICH PATH TO PEACE? t: +44 (0)20 7729 7566 e: [email protected] PROMOTING STABILITY IN STATES AFFECTED BY CONFLICT www.fpc.org.uk
Speakers Rt Hon Malcolm Bruce MP, Chair, International Development Select Committee Myles Wickstead CBE, Visiting Professor, Open University Marie Staunton, CEO, Plan UK Alan Roan, Senior Capability Manager, Saab UK. Chair: Baroness Lindsey Northover, Govt Spokesperson, Lords, International Development
Refreshments will be provided
Tuesday 20 Sept Room 114 Further information Jury’s Inn Anna Owen 8.00-9.15pm 254 Broad St Events & Projects Director Birmingham The Foreign Policy Centre FROM BURDEN TO OPPORTUNITY? BIG BUSINESS IN POOR COUNTRIES t: +44 (0)20 7729 7566 e: [email protected] www.fpc.org.uk Speakers
Lord Richard Newby, Co-chair, Liberal Democrat Treasury Parliamentary Party Committee Gibril Faal, Chair, African Foundation for Development (AFFORD) Phil Bloomer, Campaigns and Policy Director, Oxfam GB Ann Grant, VC, Standard Chartered Capital Markets Ltd, Standard Chartered Bank. Chair: Baroness Susan Kramer, House of Lords
Refreshments will be provided
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Tuesday 20 Sept 31st Cambridge Film Festival Arts Picturehouse For more information: 15-25 September 2011 38-39 St Andrew’s St Cambridge Film Trust 5:30pm Cambridge CB2 3AR c/o Arts Picturehouse BLOOD IN THE MOBILE General / Admin Enquiries: [email protected]
documentary by director Frank Piasecki Poulsen. Festival Programming: 01223 328 383 (Int. +44 1223 328
The main part of minerals used to produce cell phones are coming from the mines in the 383) Eastern DR Congo. The Western World is buying these so-called conflict minerals, financing a civil war that, according to human rights organisations, has been the bloodiest conflict since World War II: During the last 15 years the conflict has cost the lives of more than 5 million people and 300.000 women have been raped. The war will continue as long as armed groups can finance their warfare by selling minerals.
Blood in Mobile is a film about our responsibility for the conflict in the Congo and about corporate social responsibility.
The Cambridge Film Festival is run by the Cambridge Film Trust: Registered Charity no. 1120059.
Tuesday 20 Sep The London School of Economics and Political Science Sheikh Zayed Theatre For more information: New Academic 020 7955 6043 6.30-8pm RELEVANT CAPABILITIES AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT Building STORIES FROM SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA The London School of [email protected] This event is free Economics and
Political Science Speaker: Professor John Sutton, professor of economics at LSE No ticket required. Houghton Street London WC2A 2AE Good advice for governments intervening to promote industrial development can only come Entry is on a first from a detailed understanding of countries' industrial capabilities, and institutional come, first served frameworks. The aim of the "Enterprise Map" project is to provide this information. basis. John Sutton is a
This event is part of the International Growth Centre's Growth Week , a three-day annual conference of the IGC, based at the London School of Economics. It brings together the IGC's international network of scholars, institutional partners and policy makers in partner countries in Africa and South Asia for three days.
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Tuesday 20 Sept The Frontline Club Special Preview Reading The Frontline Club You need to be registered to BANG BANG BANG 13 Norfolk Place book events at the Frontline Club: 7pm London W2 1QJ Writer Stella Feehily Tel: +44 (0)20 7479 Standard price: Bang Bang Bang is coming to the Royal Court Theatre in October 8950 for Screenings £10
Closest Tube Station: for Talks £12.50. Paddington A number of tickets are available at a discounted price £8 for Screenings and £10 for talks.
Members can book and attend events for free
A seasoned human rights defender and her idealistic young colleague embark on a trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo. http://frontlineclub.com/events/h ow-to-book-events.html
Tuesday 20 Sept Rebranding Africa and Oxfam present Milton Keynes Further information MK’s GOT TALENT 2011 Christian Centre 07852 776 817 or 07747 535 032 7pm-9pm Strudwick Drive
Oldbrook All tickets are £10 and must be An evening of entertainment to raise funds to help people affected by the famine in Africa Milton Keynes booked online: MK6 2TG http://www.wegottickets.com/eve Singers, choirs, DJ’s, bands, musicians, magicians, jugglers, cabaret performers, nt/131445 and all types of artists and entertainers. Come and see the brightest and the best talents that
Milton Keynes has to offer, whilst at the same time supporting this worthy cause
Wed 21 September UGANDA POST ELECTION VIOLENCE AND HUMAN RIGHTS DISCUSSION Lecture Theatre For more information: the first in a series of conferences on Human Rights and democracy discussions being Birkbeck [email protected] 2-5pm organised by Ugandans in the Diaspora University of London Malet Street Dr Vincent Magambe, Chair London WC1E 7HX
The conference will discuss human rights issues including discontent in Uganda, with emphasis on events leading up to and after disputed 2011 election results. This discussion will also focus on Uganda government’s response and how it pairs up with the ‘Deepening Democracy’ principles of the DFID‘s funding to Uganda Government
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Wednesday 21 Sept 31st Cambridge Film Festival Arts Picturehouse For more information: 15-25 September 2011 38-39 St Andrew’s St Cambridge Film Trust 5pm Cambridge CB2 3AR c/o Arts Picturehouse
MY LONG DISTANCE FRIEND General / Admin Enquiries: [email protected]
Festival Programming: 01223 328 383 (Int. +44 1223 328 383)
Director, Carina Moller, Maria Mok
Struggling to survive in Europe since the age of nine, Zimbabwean OG seeks a balance in her life. Director Carina Molier follows her in her quest for reunification with her daughter The Cambridge Film Festival is run by the Cambridge Film Trust: Registered Charity no. 1120059.
Wed 21 September THE PEACE ONE DAY CONCERT The O2 Further information from Peninsula Square http://www.peaceoneday.org/e London n/truce-2012/global-truce-2012 SE10 0DX
The Jubilee Line to Contact: North Greenwich for www.theo2.co.uk The O2 (Zone 2) www.seetickets.com
0844 856 0202 0871 231 0835
The first of a series of three concerts will feature artists Eliza Doolittle, Youssou NDour, Afroreggae, Flawless and English National Ballet, with further artists to be announced. Peace One Day Ltd St. George's House Speakers will include Jude Law and Peace One Day founder and filmmaker Jeremy Gilley. 15 St. George's Road “Peace One Day is calling for a Global Truce on Peace Day 2012. We hope this will be the Richmond largest reduction in global violence in recorded history, both domestically and internationally. Surrey TW9 2LE This day is as much about non-violence in our schools, our homes, workplace and local [email protected] communities as it is about ceasefire on the international stage. Everyone has a role to play. The O2 Arena show launches a 365-day countdown.” Jeremy Gilley, founder of Peace One Day
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Thursday 22 Sept Chatham House Chatham House All applications must be made organised with the Doughty Street Chambers 10 St James's Square by email: 6-8pm London [email protected] MILESTONES IN INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE SW1Y 4LE
Non-members Geoffrey Robertson QC, Doughty Street Chambers and interested individuals Herman von Hebel, Registrar, Special Tribunal for Lebanon Attendance is mainly by invitation A speaker from Lawyers for Justice in Libya only, but interested individuals may Judge Howard Morisson QC, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia apply by contacting: Rod Rastan, Office of the Prosecutor, International Criminal Court http://www.chathamhouse.org/co John Jones, Doughty Street Chambers ntact/email/52863 Amal Alamuddin, Doughty Street Chambers Chair: Elizabeth Wilmshurst, CMG, Associate Fellow, International Law, Chatham House
Thursday 22 Sept Further information from: - Sunday 25 Sept Claire Evans partnering [email protected]
& 22 September – THE GOLDEN RHINO MAPUNGUBWE FILM FESTIVAL David Mark Opening Night The Golden Rhino Film Festival will give an opportunity to celebrate the achievements of [email protected] South Africa’s talented film-makers, who are currently receiving national and international 24 September – recognition. The Festival will also show- case pioneering Film Directors and Producers, both mainstream and independent who, over many decades, created South Africa’s fine reputation Awards Ceremony for film making and production www.thegoldenrhino.org 25 September – Closing Ceremony - Outstanding Achievement in Cinema Arts - Best Newcomer
- Best Documentary - Audience Award for Best Film - Best Indigenous African Language Film - Women in Film Award
Screenings across London, including BAFTA, The British Film Institute (BFI), and the London Film School - Workshops and Q & A at the London Film School - Awards Ceremony at the BFI South Bank
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Saturday 24 Sept Arts Picturehouse For more information: 31st Cambridge Film Festival 38-39 St Andrew’s St Cambridge Film Trust 1pm 15-25 September 2011 Cambridge CB2 3AR c/o Arts Picturehouse
MY LONG DISTANCE FRIEND General / Admin Enquiries: [email protected]
Festival Programming: 01223 328 383 (Int. +44 1223 328 383)
Director, Carina Moller, Maria Mok
Struggling to survive in Europe since the age of nine, Zimbabwean OG seeks a balance in her life. Director Carina Molier -her long distance friend- follows her in her quest for reunification with her daughter
The Cambridge Film Festival is run by the Cambridge Film Trust: Registered Charity no. 1120059.
Saturday 24 Sept Presented by the Association of Dance of the African Diaspora (ADAD) Purcell Room Tickets £13:00 Southbank Centre 8pm ADAD Bloom Festival Belvedere Road For more information: Mixed Bill Celebrating African Dance London SE1 8XX http://ticketing.southbankcentre.c o.uk/venues/purcell-room
+44 (0)20 7960 4200
'A cultural explosion of movement, energy, live music and traditional costume in celebration of Africa.' (The Bristol Evening Post on the Bloom Festival)
An evening of rhythm-driven dance from the African diaspora, featuring a mixed bill of work from Vocab Dance, Ballet Nimba and Maxwell Dance Project, and the London premiere of the Norway-based African and Caribbean company Tabanka Crew
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Sunday 25 Sept Presented by the Association of Dance of the African Diaspora (ADAD) Purcell Room Tickets £13:00 ADAD Bloom Festival Southbank Centre 6pm Mixed Bill Celebrating African Dance Belvedere Road For more information: London SE1 8XX http://ticketing.southbankcentre.c
o.uk/venues/purcell-room
+44 (0)20 7960 4200
'A cultural explosion of movement, energy, live music and traditional costume in celebration of Africa.' (The Bristol Evening Post on the Bloom Festival)
An evening of rhythm-driven dance from the African diaspora, featuring a mixed bill of work from Vocab Dance, Ballet Nimba and Maxwell Dance Project, and the London premiere of the Norway-based African and Caribbean company Tabanka Crew
Monday 26 Sept Tiata Delights 2011 at the The Africa Centre Tiata Fahodzi Tickets are £10 and £5 The Africa Centre (concessions). 7pm MIDNIGHT TRAIN TO SUNRISE 38 King Street London WC2E 8JT by Sibusiso Mamba (Swaziland/ South Africa) There is a ‘buy 5 and get 1 more
ticket free’ offer. Please use the
a brutal, lyrical ‘State-of-the-Nation’ examination of an African Superpower code ‘Tiata’
The year is 2010 and the world hot-foots its way to Africa’s Southern Colossus for the Online booking via Soho Theatre
‘Greatest Show on Earth’. Deep, deep underground two men dig around the clock making
ready the way for a multi-million dollar transport link. But all of sudden a train is hurtling https://sohotheatre.ticketsolve.co towards them, on tracks yet to be built and in a tunnel that does not yet exist…Where has it m/shows/126518721/events come from? Where is it going to? And why does the conductor insist that the diggers get on?
Co-created with Ricardo Khan, at The World Theatre Lab, Johannesburg. Originally commissioned and produced by the University of Missouri Kansas City Theatre Department. Further information from: Subsequently produced at Crossroads Theatre Company, New Brunswick NJ and further Tiata Fahodzi developed with RADA Graduate Workshops, London 020 3538 6257
Curated by Artistic Director Lucian Msamati [email protected]
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Tuesday 27 Sept Tiata Delights 2011 at the The Africa Centre Tickets are £10 and £5 Tiata Fahodzi (concessions). MIDNIGHT TRAIN TO SUNRISE The Africa Centre by Sibusiso Mamba (Swaziland/ South Africa) 38 King Street There is a ‘buy 5 and get 1 more London WC2E 8JT 7pm ticket free’ offer. Please use the code ‘Tiata’
Online booking via Soho Theatre
https://sohotheatre.ticketsolve.co m/shows/126518721/events
a brutal, lyrical ‘State-of-the-Nation’ examination of an African Superpower
The year is 2010 and the world hot-foots its way to Africa’s Southern Colossus for the Further information from: ‘Greatest Show on Earth’. Deep, deep underground two men dig around the clock making Tiata Fahodzi ready the way for a multi-million dollar transport link. But all of sudden a train is hurtling 020 3538 6257 towards them, on tracks yet to be built and in a tunnel that does not yet exist…Where has it come from? Where is it going to? And why does the conductor insist that the diggers get on? [email protected] Co-created with Ricardo Khan, at The World Theatre Lab, Johannesburg. Originally commissioned and produced by the University of Missouri Kansas City Theatre Department.
Curated by Artistic Director Lucian Msamati, featured writers include Tony Award-winning Eve Ensler, Lizzy Dijeh, JC Niala, Denton Chikura, Sibusiso Mamba and Msamati himself.
Wed Sept 28 SEXUALITY, AIDS AND RELIGION: TRANSNATIONAL DYNAMICS IN AFRICA School of Further information from : - 30 Sept Convenors: Nadine Beckmann (Oxford), Catrine Christiansen (Copenhagen), Alessandro Anthropology Catrine Christiansen: Gusman (Riga). Hosted by the Fertility and Reproduction Studies Group (FRSG) and the University of Oxford [email protected] International Research Network on Religion and AIDS in Africa Nadine Beckmann: [email protected]
speakers include: or Alessandro Gusman: - Brooke Grundfest Schoepf (Harvard) [email protected] - Suzette Heald (LSE) - Robert Thornton (University of the Witwatersrand) Conference registration is £25 (£15 - Rijk van Dijk (University of Leiden) for students), payable in cash or - Hansjörg Dilger (Free University of Berlin) cheque upon arrival. This fee - Reverend Ijeoma Ajibade (Mayor’s Office, Greater London Authority includes lunches and coffee/tea.
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Wednesday 28 Sept Suite 1 (secure zone) Further information Jury’s Inn Anna Owen 12.30-2.15pm 2011 FRINGE LIVERPOOL Events & Projects Director you will need The Foreign Policy Centre WHICH PATH TO PEACE? PROMOTING STABILITY IN STATES AFFECTED BY Conference Suite 11, 2nd Floor accreditation CONFLICT 23-28 Penn Street
London N1 5DL
Speakers: t: +44 (0)20 7729 7566 Stephen Twigg MP, Shadow Foreign Office Minister for Africa e: [email protected] Richard Beeston, Foreign Editor, The Times www.fpc.org.uk Brendan Cox, Director, Policy & Advocacy, Save the Children UK Alan Roan, Senior Capability Manager, Saab UK. Chair: Keme Nzerem (tbc), Reporter and Presenter, Channel 4 News
Refreshments will be available
Wednesday 28 Sept For more information: Business Council for Africa, West & Southern 12.15 - 2.30pm THE ROUTE TO WORLD CLASS Ticket price includes VAT a buffet CORPORATE GOVERNANCE lunch and refreshments: BCA W&S Member: £47.82
Institute of Directors BCA W&S Charity Member: £33.60
HQ Non-BCA W&S Member: £95.40
116 Pall Mall Talk by Dr Roger Barker, a leading proponent of Good Governance London SW1Y 5ED To register for this event please go sponsored by FBN Bank (UK) Ltd with details of your membership
to: Dr Roger Barker is the holder of a doctorate on corporate governance from Oxford University, www.eventelephant.com/corpgov where he was also stipendiary lecturer at Merton College, Oxford. He has also been a visiting
lecturer in corporate governance at the Said Business School (Oxford), ESSEC Business School
(Paris) and the Ministry of Defence (UK), and has acted as an adviser to the EU Economic and
Social Committee in Brussels. Dr. Roger Barker, Head of Corporate Governance at the IoD,
will advise how individuals and companies can reach the highest standards of good governance. This event includes a tour of historic parts of the Institute of Directors HQ at 116 Pall Mall and buffet lunch in the IoD wine bar
B-NET members may register at BCA W&S Member rate
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Wednesday 28 Sept The Frontline Club Panel Discussion The Frontline Club You need to be registered to FAMINE AND CONFLICT IN SOMALIA: WHAT CAN BRING RELIEF? 13 Norfolk Place book events at the Frontline Club: 7pm London W2 1QJ Tel: +44 (0)20 7479 Standard price: 8950 for Screenings £10 Closest Tube Station: for Talks £12.50. Paddington A number of tickets are available at a discounted price £8 for Screenings and £10 for talks. Image Credit: Andy Hall - Oxfam Members can book and attend events for free
Chaired by Mary Harper, Africa Editor at the BBC World Service. Her book Getting Somalia Wrong? Faith, War and Hope in a Shattered State is due to be published by Zed Books in http://frontlineclub.com/events/h February 2012. ow-to-book-events.html With: Peter Greste, who first worked for the BBC as Kabul correspondent in 1995. He has covered the continent for the past six years. & Jehangir Malik UK Director of Islamic Relief, an international aid and development NGO
Wednesday 28 Sept Tiata Fahodzi Tickets are £10 and £5 Tiata Delights 2011 at the The Africa Centre The Africa Centre (concessions). 7pm 38 King Street MEMORY PLAY London WC2E 8JT There is a ‘buy 5 and get 1 more
by Lucian Msamati ticket free’ offer. Please use the code ‘Tiata’ Directed by Svetlana Dimcovic Online booking via Soho Theatre Script in hand performance reading https://sohotheatre.ticketsolve.co In 1830, all that stands between Shaka Zulu and ultimate conquest north of the Limpopo are m/shows/126518723/events the Ndwandwe Nation led by prince Molife. On the eve of battle, Molife awakes with total amnesia, in London, 2009. Or is it? Further information from: Tiata Fahodzi developed with RADA Graduate Workshops, London 020 3538 6257
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Thursday 29 Sept The Institute of Commonwealth Studies & School of Advanced Study, University of London Chancellor’s Hall The seminar is open to anyone with the Overseas Service Pensioners’ Association representing the former HM Overseas Civil Service Senate House who would like to attend 11.00 am – 7.00 pm Malet Street WITNESS SEMINARS ON THE END OF EMPIRE: London WC1E 7HU There will be a charge of £10 to 5.30-7.00 cover the cost of a light lunch and Economic Development in the British Commonwealth before and after Independence Drinks reception refreshments.
For further information Session One: The View from the Field – examples from Africa Olga Jimenez Chairman: Professor Paul Collier, CBE [email protected] Mr John Smith, CBE Development in Nigeria
Mr Peter McLean, CMG, OBE: Economic and Commercial Development in Uganda To register your interest contact Mr Charles Cullimore: CMG: Development in Tanganyika Troy Rutt at [email protected] Dr Jonathan Lawley, PhD: Developing African Administrative and Management Potential
c/o Institute of Commonwealth Session Two: Issues and Policies before and after Independence Studies Chairman: Sir Peter Marshall, KCMG, CVO : Senate House Session Three: Issues and Policies before and after Independence (continued) Malet Street Chairman: Sir Peter Marshall, KCMG, CVO London WC1E 7HU Session Four: Round–up and Conclusions
Chairman: Professor Philip Murphy 020 7862 8853/8871
Thursday 29 Sept The Frontline Club Screening The Frontline Club You need to be registered to WHEN CHINA MET AFRICA 13 Norfolk Place book events at the Frontline Club: 7pm London W2 1QJ Tel: +44 (0)20 7479 Standard price: 8950 for Screenings £10 Closest Tube Station: for Talks £12.50. Paddington A number of tickets are available at a discounted price £8 for Screenings and £10 for talks.
Followed by a Q&A with Directors Marc and Nick Francis Members can book and attend events for free The burgeoning scope of the continent's rising global power and the macrocosm of the three protagonists' lives in Zambia, are portrayed in When China Met Africa to explore the new http://frontlineclub.com/events/h meaning of globalisation. ow-to-book-events.html
For more information about the film - www.whenchinametafrica.com
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Thursday 29 Sept Tiata Delights 2011 at the The Africa Centre Tiata Fahodzi Tickets are £10 and £5 The Africa Centre (concessions). 7pm 38 King Street MEMORY PLAY London WC2E 8JT There is a ‘buy 5 and get 1 more by Lucian Msamati ticket free’ offer. Please use the
code ‘Tiata’
Online booking via Soho Theatre
https://sohotheatre.ticketsolve.co m/shows/126518723/events
Directed by Svetlana Dimcovic Further information from: Script in hand performance reading Tiata Fahodzi 020 3538 6257 In 1830, all that stands between Shaka Zulu and ultimate conquest north of the Limpopo are the Ndwandwe Nation led by prince Molife. On the eve of battle, Molife awakes with total amnesia, in London, 2009. Or is it? [email protected]
developed with RADA Graduate Workshops, London
Thursday 29 Sept THE RAIN THAT WASHES Studio Theatre Tickets: £8 (£6 conc) - 08 October CHICKENSHED Age Recommendation: 12+ By Dave Carey Chase Side Southgate London N14 4PE For more information: Thurs 29 & Fri 30 020 8292 9222 Sept 7.30pm [email protected]
A Play
29 September – 8 October 2011 Sat 1 Oct 6pm An epic journey through Zimbabwe's turbulent history. A true story that is poignant, political Chickenshed is and personal, this beautifully realised one-man show brings to life the human drama behind between Oakwood the history and the headlines. Following the dream of majority rule, one man sees Ian Smith's Tues 4 & Wed 5 Oct and Cockfosters tube Rhodesia become Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe. From refugee camps in Botswana to air strikes 7.30pm stations, and on bus in Zambia via Marxism in Bulgaria, he returns to Zimbabwe, only to witness the greatest routes 298, 299, 307 betrayal of all... Sat 8 Oct and N91. Free parking
6pm is also available. This piece brings to the stage one man’s real life experience of the new Zimbabwe
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Friday 30 Sept The Royal African Society Book Launch Wilkins Terrace Please rsvp to University College 6-8pm London [email protected] IT HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO WAR Gower Street London WC1E 6BT
0207 679 2000
By Rye Barcott
In his 2011 memoir, It Happened on the Way to War, Barcott explores the contrasts of community development in Africa and counter-insurgency in the Marines as they clashed and converged in his head and heart, recounting his experiences building and learning from leaders in unlikely places – from the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya, to the bomb-strewn streets of Fallujah and beyond.
Friday 30 Sept Tiata Delights 2011 Double Bill at the The Africa Centre Tiata Fahodzi Tickets are £10 and £5 The Africa Centre (concessions). 7pm THE STRONG ROOM 38 King Street London WC2E 8JT There is a ‘buy 5 and get 1 more by JC Niala (Kenya) ticket free’ offer. Please use the A botched burglary, some dodgy architecture and a power cut, find a wealthy widow and her code ‘Tiata’ would-be attacker trapped in the ‘Panic Room’ of a comfortable suburban home in Nairobi, Kenya. Is it fight or flight? JC Niala’s adaptation of her award-winning radio play is a witty and gritty take on modern Kenyan life Online booking via Soho Theatre
& https://sohotheatre.ticketsolve.co THE EPIC ADVENTURE OF NHAMO THE MANYIKA m/shows/126518723/events
WARRIOR AND HIS SEXY WIFE CHIPO Further information from: by Denton Chikura (Zimbabwe/UK) Tiata Fahodzi Nhamo is a simple goat-herd whose world is turned upside down when he ‘discovers’ the 020 3538 6257 comely Chipo taking her daily swim and promptly falls in love. Winning her hand however is no easy task; especially since there is a Narrator who has already sold the TV rights of [email protected] Nhamo’s story to ITV… Zimbabwean writer and actor Denton Chikura gives the African Fairytale a 21st Century makeover with his unique blend of anarchic wit, theatricality and
smart satire.
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Saturday 1 October Tiata Delights 2011 Double Bill at the The Africa Centre Tiata Fahodzi Tickets are £10 and £5 The Africa Centre (concessions). 7pm THE STRONG ROOM 38 King Street London WC2E 8JT There is a ‘buy 5 and get 1 more
ticket free’ offer. Please use the
code ‘Tiata’
Online booking via Soho Theatre
https://sohotheatre.ticketsolve.co m/shows/126518723/events
by JC Niala (Kenya) Further information from: A botched burglary, some dodgy architecture and a power cut, find a wealthy widow and her Tiata Fahodzi would-be attacker trapped in the ‘Panic Room’ of a comfortable suburban home in Nairobi, 020 3538 6257 Kenya. Is it fight or flight? JC Niala’s adaptation of her award-winning radio play is a witty and gritty take on modern Kenyan life [email protected]
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THE EPIC ADVENTURE OF NHAMO THE MANYIKA WARRIOR & HIS SEXY
WIFE CHIPO
by Denton Chikura (Zimbabwe/UK) Nhamo is a simple goat-herd whose world is turned upside down when he ‘discovers’ the comely Chipo taking her daily swim and promptly falls in love. Winning her hand however is no easy task; especially since there is a Narrator who has already sold the TV rights of Nhamo’s story to ITV… Zimbabwean writer and actor Denton Chikura gives the African Fairytale a 21st Century makeover with his unique blend of anarchic wit, theatricality and smart satire.
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Monday 3 October Palace Hotel Further information Palace 7 (Oxford St) Anna Owen 12.30-2.00pm Manchester Events & Projects Director M60 7HA The Foreign Policy Centre
Suite 11, 2nd Floor WHICH PATH TO PEACE? PROMOTING STABILITY IN STATES AFFECTED BY you may need 23-28 Penn Street CONFLICT Conference London N1 5DL accreditation t: +44 (0)20 7729 7566
Speakers e: [email protected] Alistair Burt MP, Minister for Middle East, North Africa and Afghanistan, FCO www.fpc.org.uk Kim Sengupta, Defence & Diplomatic Correspondent, The Independent Dan Smith, Secretary General, International Alert Hugh Ward MBE, Head of Capability, Saab UK Chair: Lindsey Hilsum, International Editor, Channel 4 News
Monday 3rd October AFRICAN ARGUMENTS Brunei Gallery Please rsvp to Online Launch Lecture Theatre 6 – 8 pm School of Oriental [email protected] hosted by the Royal African Society and African Studies and London WC1H 0XG the Social Science Research Council
The event will celebrate the launch of a new blogging website – African Arguments Online
African Arguments Online will bring debate on the most important African topics to a wider audience with the rapidity of a news magazine and the reach of the internet, and leading public intellectuals— writers, scholars, activists— will contribute regular columns.
Monday 3 October Tiata Delights 2011 Double Bill at the The Africa Centre Tiata Fahodzi Tickets are £10 The Africa Centre Online booking via Soho Theatre 7pm MANGO & HERE 38 King Street https://sohotheatre.ticketsolve.co By Eve Ensler London WC2E 8JT m/shows/126518723/events
There is a ‘buy 5 and Director Natalie Ibu Tiata Fahodzi get 1 more ticket 020 3538 6257 free’ offer. Please [email protected] use the code ‘Tiata’ A Double Bill from multi-award winner Eve Ensler (USA)
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Tuesday 4 October Exchange Rooms 4 & Further information 5 Anna Owen 12.30-2.00pm Manchester Central Events & Projects Director
The Foreign Policy Centre RETHINKING DEMOCRACY AND DEVELOPMENT you may need Suite 11, 2nd Floor WHAT ROLE FOR NEW MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY Conference 23-28 Penn Street accreditation London N1 5DL Speakers t: +44 (0)20 7729 7566 Stephen O’Brien MP, International Development Minister, DfID e: [email protected] David Munk (tbc), Foreign Editor, The Daily Telegraph www.fpc.org.uk Caroline Nursey, Director, BBC World Service Trust Dr Awab Alvi (’Teeth Maestro’), celebrated Pakistani blogger Chair: Rory Stewart MP Refreshments will be provided
Tuesday 4 October Exchange Room 1 Further information Manchester Central Anna Owen 5.30-7pm Events & Projects Director you may need FROM BURDEN TO OPPORTUNITY? The Foreign Policy Centre Conference BIG BUSINESS IN POOR COUNTRIES Suite 11, 2nd Floor accreditation 23-28 Penn Street
Speakers London N1 5DL Stephen O’Brien MP, International Development Minister DfID t: +44 (0)20 7729 7566 Lanre Akinola, Editor, This is Africa (FT Ltd) e: [email protected] Ann Grant, VC, Standard Chartered Capital Markets Ltd, Standard Chartered Bank www.fpc.org.uk Chair Sam Gyimah MP, International Development Committee
Refreshments will be provided
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Tuesday 4 October Royal African Society Book launch Brunei Suite Please RSVP for all RAS events at BRIEF AUTHORITY: School of Oriental [email protected] 6-8pm and African Studies A MEMOIR OF COLONIAL ADMINISTRATION IN TANGANYIKA London WC1H 0XG
Speaker Innes Meek Respondent Trevor Jagger (TBC) Chair Richard Dowden (Director of the Royal African Society)
Charles Meek’s memoir of colonial Tanganyika, with his son and editor Innes Meek. Arriving in the former German colony during the dark days of World War II, Meek describes the challenges of living in a remote colony in war-time and of life among a remarkable cast of frontier characters and colleagues.
In Dar es Salaam Meek was embroiled in the fast-moving events leading to decolonization, working as Permanent Secretary to the Chief Minister, Julius Nyerere. Following independence, he became the first Head of the Tanganyika Civil Service, a in which role he collaborated closely with Nyerere.
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Tuesday 4 October Tiata Delights 2011 Double Bill at the The Africa Centre Tiata Fahodzi Tickets are £10 and £5 The Africa Centre (concessions). 7pm MANGO & HERE 38 King Street London WC2E 8JT Online booking via Soho
There is a ‘buy 5 and Theatrehttps://sohotheatre.tickets get 1 more ticket olve.com/shows/126518723/event free’ offer. Please s use the code ‘Tiata’
Tiata Fahodzi 020 3538 6257 By multi-award winner Eve Ensler (USA) [email protected] Director Natalie Ibu
Wednesday 5 Oct VIP event sponsored by Adams & Moore organised by the BCA W&S Member: £47.82 Business Council for Africa, West & Southern BCA W&S Charity Member: £33.60 12.15 to 2.30pm featuring a presentation by Non-BCA W&S Member: £95.40
The ticket His Excellency The Nigeria High Commissioner price includes VAT Dr. Dalhatu Tafida, OFR To register: and a buffet lunch on Nigeria's immediate prospects. www.eventelephant.com/dbiniger NIGERIA HIGH ia DOING BUSINESS NIGERIA COMMISSION B-NET members are invited to 9, Northumberland attend and those wishing to do so Following the recent Nigeria elections and the appointment of the new cabinet, attention is Avenue should apply the BCA W&S turning to Nigeria's prospects in coming months. There is no better person to give an insight LONDON WC2N 5BX Member rate of £47.82 when into recent and forthcoming developments in Nigeria than the Nigeria High Commissioner, registering His Excellency Dr. Dalhatu Tafida, OFR. (quote membership number)
Dr. Tafida has recently returned to London from Nigeria where, in his capacity as Director- General of the Jonathan / Sambo election campaign, he successfully managed President Jonathan's election. Understanding the present political and economic climate is one thing but what about the technicalities of actually doing business in Nigeria?
To assist BCA members and potential members to get a better understanding of the practicalities of doing business in Nigeria, London-based Nigerian lawyer, Dele Ogun, and BCA member, Adams and Moore, will effect short presentations to sort myth from reality.
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Wednesday 5 Oct Chatham House Non-members Chatham House 10 St James's Square and interested individuals 5.00 – 6.00pm LIFEBLOOD: London should apply to Tighisti Amare HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD, ONE DEAD MOSQUITO AT A TIME SW1Y 4LE
T: +44 (0)20 7957 5700 F: +44 (0)20 7957 5710 E: [email protected]
All applications must be made by email.
Alex Perry, Author and Africa Bureau Chief, Time magazine
Alex Perry will discuss his new book, which documents two years on the trail of a campaign to eradicate malaria. The disease still infects around half a billion people a year, and kills close to a million of them. Drawing on the history of efforts to combat malaria, Alex Perry will explore the complex politics of eradication projects, development and aid in Africa.
He will argue that whilst there have been successes in the fight against malaria, considerable challenges remain.
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Wednesday 5 Oct Brunei Gallery For more information: SOAS School of Law Lecture Theatre 0207 637 2388 6-8pm Annual Inception Lecture 2011 School of Oriental and African Studies https://spreadsheets.google.com/s The lecture is open DIRECT ACTION: London WC1H 0XG preadsheet/viewform?hl=en_US&f to all new and ormkey=dDhyVEdkSkxfSDhEWkhH returning students, A NECESSARY PRESCRIPTION FOR DEMOCRACY? OUZNTEs5SFE6MA&ndplr=1 academics, The first Inception Lecture will be delivered by the Rt Hon. David Lammy, MP practitioners and the David Lammy graduated from the general public. SOAS School of Law in 1993 with an LLB (Hons) degree, and went on to be the first black Briton to attend Harvard Law School. He was first elected to Parliament in 2000, as the MP for Tottenham, the most ethnically diverse constituency in Europe. He held a number of Ministerial posts in the Labour government, including Minister for Culture and Minister for Higher Education
Rt Hon. David Lammy, MP
Chair: Professor Graham Furniss, SOAS Pro-Director (Research & Enterprise)
The SOAS School of Law hosts its first Annual Inception Lecture, delivered by a notable alumnus or alumna of the SOAS School of Law, addressing a topical subject of general public interest relating to the role of law in society in a broad sense. The inception lecture is intended to serve as an inspiration for our students, contribute to public debate and enhance our academic environment.
In this lecture, David Lammy will draw on the history of direct action and civil disobedience, from Gandhi’s non-violent resistance to British rule in India to the campaign against South African apartheid. He will compare the student protests of 1968 and the Arab Spring with the protest movement currently taking root in university campuses and community groups across the country. He will seek to answer the fundamental question of whether direct action is necessary for democracy to be born and renewed.
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Wednesday 5 Oct The London School of Economics and Political Science Old Theatre, Old For more information: Hellenic Observatory and London Hellenic Society Public Lecture Building 020 7955 6043 6.30-8pm HELLENISM, UNIVERSAL RIGHTS AND APARTHEID The London School of Economics and [email protected] SPEAKER: George Bizos Political Science London WC2A 2AE
CHAIR: Professor Kevin Featherstone
George Bizos will speak about defending human rights under apartheid in South Africa, drawing on his own career as a human rights lawyer. George Bizos has had a distinguished legal career struggling against apartheid and promoting universal human rights. He has defended Nelson Mandela, Govan Mbeki and Morgan Tsvangirai.
Wednesday 5 Oct Tiata Delights 2011 at the The Africa Centre Tiata Fahodzi Tickets are £10 and £5 The Africa Centre (concessions). 7pm TIATA TAMBA TAMBA 38 King Street London WC2E 8JT Devised & improvised theatre (devised and improvised theatre Online booking via Soho Theatre There is a ‘buy 5 and https://sohotheatre.ticketsolve.co get 1 more ticket m/shows/126518723/events free’ offer. Please use the code ‘Tiata’ Lucian Msamati leads a superb team of performers in a couple of nights of devised and Tiata Fahodzi improvised theatre with music from James Lascelles 020 3538 6257 [email protected]
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Thursday 6 October Tiata Delights 2011 at the The Africa Centre Tiata Fahodzi Tickets are £10 and £5 The Africa Centre (concessions). 7pm TIATA TAMBA TAMBA 38 King Street Devised & improvised theatre (devised and improvised theatre London WC2E 8JT Online booking via Soho Theatre
There is a ‘buy 5 and https://sohotheatre.ticketsolve.co get 1 more ticket m/shows/126518723/events free’ offer. Please use the code ‘Tiata’ Further information from: Tiata Fahodzi 020 3538 6257
Lucian Msamati leads a superb team of performers in a couple of nights of devised and improvised theatre with music from James Lascelles
Friday 7 October Tiata Delights 2011 at the The Africa Centre Tiata Fahodzi Tickets are £10 and £5 7pm The Africa Centre (concessions). MESSAGE FROM A FAR COUNTRY By Lizzy Dijeh; Director Rae McKen 38 King Street London WC2E 8JT There is a ‘buy 5 and get 1 more ticket free’ offer. Please use the
code ‘Tiata’
Online booking via Soho Theatre
Ghosts of the Biafran war and the changing face of 21st Century Extremism collide head . https://sohotheatre.ticketsolve.co Aras is coaxed by his uncle to join the Igbo Cultural Alliance and restore Nigeria to its people m/shows/126518723/events at any cost. His parents just want him to finish his education and better himself. Before long, secrets and inconvenient truths past and present rear their ugly head. Further information from: Tiata Fahodzi Lizzy Dijeh is a British playwright and poet of Nigerian origin, a former member of the Royal 020 3538 6257 Court Young Writer’s Programme. In July 2007 she was one of six writers selected by the th Royal Court Theatre to attend the 10 World Interplay Festival in Australia as the UK [email protected] representative alongside playwright and UK tutor for that year, Tanika Gupta. Her play, High Life debuted at the Hampstead Theatre in the Michael Frayn Space in October 2009 and was also shortlisted for the prestigious Alfred Fagon Award in 2007
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Saturday 8 October Tiata Delights 2011 at the The Africa Centre Tiata Fahodzi Tickets are £10 and £5 The Africa Centre (concessions). 3pm and 7pm MESSAGE FROM A FAR COUNTRY 38 King Street By Lizzy Dijeh; Director Rae McKen London WC2E 8JT Online booking via Soho Theatre
There is a ‘buy 5 and https://sohotheatre.ticketsolve.co get 1 more ticket m/shows/126518723/events free’ offer. Please use the code ‘Tiata’ Further information from: Tiata Fahodzi 020 3538 6257
Ghosts of the Biafran war and the changing face of 21st Century Extremism collide head . Aras is coaxed by his uncle to join the Igbo Cultural Alliance and restore Nigeria to its people at any cost. His parents just want him to finish his education and better himself. Before long, secrets and inconvenient truths past and present rear their ugly head.
Saturday 8 October Imperial War Museum In association with Black History Walks, Talks & Films Imperial War Free: 200 YEARS OF BLACK TROOPS IN BRITISH ARMIES Museum Lambeth no booking required but please 1:30-2pm Road SE1 arrive in good time
Tube: Lambeth North. Further information: http://www.iwm.org.uk
Jamaican Spitfire pilots and Somali soldiers in the Second World War; the African/Caribbean presence in Britain’s Imperial forces going back much further than the 1940s ….
This interactive audio-visual presentation will explore this often hidden history including filmed interviews with First World War Jamaican veterans, the role of British West Indies Regiment in Palestine, black female secret agents, and the African troops in Burma during the Second World War.
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Monday 10 October RUSI Members’ Lecture RUSI This event is open to all RUSI AN AUTUMN PERSPECTIVE ON THE ARAB SPRING Whitehall members 1pm London SW1A 2ET To attend this event, please register online https://my.rusi.org/SSLPage.aspx?p id=668
Further information Sophie Cordes, Events Assistant [email protected]
A lecture by the Rt Hon Douglas Alexander MP, Shadow Foreign Secretary, UK. +44 (0)20 7747 4971
how the Arab Spring has unfolded during the course of 2011 the lessons that can be learnt for British policymaking in response to these events strengths and weaknesses in the Government’s approach.
An optional £10 sandwich lunch shall be available from 12:15pm
Monday 10 October Royal African Society Book launch Khalili Lecture Please RSVP for all RAS events at TAX HAVENS AND FINANCIAL SINKHOLES: AFRICA’S ODIOUS DEBTS Theatre [email protected] 7-9pm School of Oriental
and African Studies London WC1H 0XG
With authors James Boyce and Leonce Ndikumana, Respondent John Christenson (Director, International Secretariat, Tax Justice Network) Chair Professor John Weeks (SOAS)
contrary to the popular perception of Africa being a drain on the financial resources of the West, the continent is actually a net creditor to the rest of the world. The extent of capital flight from sub-Saharan Africa is remarkable: more than $700 billion in the past four decades. But Africa’s foreign assets remain private and hidden, while its foreign debts are public, owed by the people of Africa through their governments.
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Tues 11th October Commonwealth Club Further information : 25 Northumberland Jessica Smith Save the date Avenue [email protected] An address by Rt Hon Andrew Mitchell MP London WC2N 5AP 020 7766 9205. 6.30pm onwards Secretary of State for International Development Membership More details [email protected] [email protected]
Thurs OCTOBER 13 The International Film and Broadcast Academy, in partnership with Goethe-Institut Nigeria 2Goethe-Insitut FURTHER INFORMATION: – Sat October 15 IN SHORT INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL LAGOS Nigeria http://www.in-short.org/www.in- City Hall short.org/Welcome.html 30, Catholic Mission Str all enquiries can be sent to: opp. Holy Cross 1FESTIVAL DIRECTOR Cathedral IN-SHORT 2011 Lagos Island 62, AKANRO STREET Lagos ILASAMAJA NIGERIA LAGOS STATE NIGERIA Tel: +234 802 301 5604 Email: [email protected]
screening international short films from different genres with a strong focus on Nigerian and German short films.
Thursday 13 Oct The London School of Economics and Political Science Hong Kong Theatre For more information: Public Lecture Clement House 020 7955 6043 6.30-8pm The London School of Economics and [email protected] Political Science London WC2A 2AE
THE MOUNTAIN WITHIN: LEADERSHIP LESSIONS FROM KILIMANJARO SPEAKER: Herta von Stiegel CHAIR: Dr Purna Sen
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Sat OCT 15 THE BRITAIN–NIGERIA EDUCATIONAL TRUST Institute of Further information from 2nd B-NET Sussex Branch Meeting Development Alastair Burtt 11am Studies Library Road [email protected] Speaker Author Falmer 07718 735706 CAROLE ENAHORO University of Sussex Brighton BN1 9RE
01273 606 261
Carole will be talking about her new book Doing Dangerously Well her book has been praised as "a diabolically satirical farce ..." about the politics of water, Nigeria, international aid, corruption.
Doing Dangerously Well is available from Mr B's Emporium of Reading Delights, 14/15 John Street, Bath, BA1 2JL http://www.mrbsemporium.com/Contact1.htm [email protected]"[email protected]
Doing Dangerously Well is also available for download from Kindle eBook at £15.27.
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Monday 17 October Royal African Society Book launch Khalili Lecture Please RSVP for all RAS events at CONGO MASQUERADE: THE POLITICAL CULTURE OF AID INEFFICIENCY Theatre [email protected] 7-9pm School of Oriental
and African Studies London WC1H 0XG
with author Theodore Trefon and Ben Shepherd (Chatham House) responding.
Congo Masquerade is about the mismanagement, hypocrisy and powerlessness in what has proved to be one of Africa's most troublesome and volatile states. The book demonstrates that Congo has been for years an almost unmitigated failure due to the ingrained political culture of corruption amongst the Congolese elite, abetted by the complicity and incompetence of international partners.
Wednesday 19 Oct Significant Voices The Human Rights For more information: YINKA SHONIBARE MB Action Centre 0207 749 1240 6.30-8.30pm In conversation with Ekow Eshun 17-25 New Inn Yard [email protected] London EC2A 3EA
£7 (£5 concessions) http://www.eventbrite.com/event/ 1962478827
Yinka Shonibare MBE will talk about his work and the cultural legacy of post-colonial Britain
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Thursday 20 Oct The London School of Economics and Political Science Wolfson Theatre For more information: Centre for the Study of Human Rights Panel Discussion New Academic 020 7955 6043 6.30-8pm Building THE MAU MAU CASE: The London School of [email protected] ABUSE, TORTURE AND COVER UP UNDER BRITISH COLONIAL RULE Economics and Political Science SPEAKERS: Professor David Anderson, Dr Huw Bennett, Daniel Leader (pictured) London WC2A 2AE
CHAIR: Professor Chetan Bhatt
The Mau Mau case exposed shocking evidence of abuse by British officials. Leading legal and academic experts will discuss the case and its implications for our understanding of the Kenya Emergency. David Anderson is professor of African politics, University of Oxford. Huw Bennett is a lecturer in defence studies, Kings College London. Daniel Leader is a barrister at Leigh, Day and Co.
Thursday 20 October 55TH BFI London Film Festival Vue Screen 3 For more information: In partnership with American Express 3 Cranbourn Street, http://www.bfi.org.uk/lff/films 8:45pm 12-27 October 2011 Leicester Square WC2H 7AL http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/b SLEEPING SICKNESS fi_southbank Venue website: http://www.myvue.c om Priority online booking is available to BFI Members from 9.30am on 08712 240 240 Monday 19 September:
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Friday 21 October SOAS CONCERT SERIES Brunei Gallery Further information from: Lecture Theatre Katerina Pavlakis SOAS [email protected] University of London www.soas.ac.uk/concerts New Season begins Thornhaugh Street Russell Square The Concert Series will remain FREE for all. London WC1H 0XG More information from September 2011
Friday 21 October 55TH BFI London Film Festival NFT2 For more information: In partnership with American Express BFI festival.education@bfi. 10:30am 12-27 October 2011 Southbank org.uk & 6:15pm bfi.org.uk/lff/educatio OTELO BURNING (South Africa) n
020 7928 3232/ 020 7815 1344 between 10am - 5.30pm, Monday - Friday
In Zulu with subtitles. Sara Blecher 2011
Set against the backdrop of the political violence at the end of apartheid in South Africa in the late 1980s
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Friday 21 October 55TH BFI London Film Festival Vue Screen 3 For more information: In partnership with American Express 3 Cranbourn Street, http://www.bfi.org.uk/lff/films 3.30PM 12-27 October 2011 Leicester Square WC2H 7AL SLEEPING SICKNESS Priority online booking is available Venue website: to BFI Members from 9.30am on http://www.myvue.c Monday 19 September: “The title of Ulrich Köhler's film refers to a disease prevalent in rural areas of present-day om http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/sit Cameroon, a condition that German doctor Ebbo (Pierre Bokma) is battling to eradicate. Yet es/bfi.org.uk.whatson/files/BFI_Lon his post with an international aid agency is coming to an end, and the middle-aged man is 08712 240 240 don_Film_Festival_members_booki facing a reluctant return to Germany with his wife and teenage daughter “Edward Lawrenson ng_form.pdf
Saturday 22 October 55TH BFI London Film Festival Vue Screen 6 For more information: In partnership with American Express 12-27 October 2011 3 Cranbourn Street, http://www.bfi.org.uk/lff/films 6pm Leicester Square BEAUTY WC2H 7AL
Venue website: a disturbing and provocative examination of one man's damaging self-hatred Priority online booking is available Public booking http://www.myvue.c to BFI Members from 9.30am on opens 26 September om Monday 19 September: “Francois, a devoted husband and father of two living in Bloemfontein, South Africa, has long by telephone and http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/sit battled with his true identity. Having spent years rejecting the closeted desires that threaten online 08712 240 240 es/bfi.org.uk.whatson/files/BFI_Lon his conservative existence, a chance encounter with the handsome Christian, the son of an old at 9:30 and in person don_Film_Festival_members_booki friend, ignites within him an uncontrollable set of emotions. Slowly his carefully constructed at 11:00 ng_form.pdf façade starts to unravel, giving way to a dangerous obsession”. Michael Blyth
Sat 22 October 55TH BFI London Film Festival Ritzy Screen 2 For more information: In partnership with American Express Brixton Oval http://www.bfi.org.uk/lff/films 6:15pm 12-27 October 2011 Coldharbour Lane SW2 1JG SLEEPING SICKNESS Priority online booking is available Venue website: to BFI Members from 9.30am on http://www.pictureh Monday 19 September: “The title of Ulrich Köhler's film refers to a disease prevalent in rural areas of present-day ouses.co.uk/cinema_ http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/sit Cameroon, a condition that German doctor Ebbo (Pierre Bokma) is battling to eradicate. Yet home_date.aspx?ven es/bfi.org.uk.whatson/files/BFI_Lon his post with an international aid agency is coming to an end, and the middle-aged man is ueId=ritz don_Film_Festival_members_booki facing a reluctant return to Germany with his wife and teenage daughter “Edward Lawrenson ng_form.pdf Tel: 0871 704 2065
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Sunday 23 October 55TH BFI London Film Festival Vue Screen 6 For more information: In partnership with American Express 12-27 October 2011 3 Cranbourn Street, http://www.bfi.org.uk/lff/films 3:15pm Leicester Square BEAUTY WC2H 7AL Priority online booking is available to BFI Members from 9.30am on Public booking Venue website: Monday 19 September: opens 26 September “Francois, a devoted husband and father of two living in Bloemfontein, South Africa, has long http://www.myvue.c http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/sit by telephone and battled with his true identity. Having spent years rejecting the closeted desires that threaten om es/bfi.org.uk.whatson/files/BFI_Lon online his conservative existence, a chance encounter with the handsome Christian, the son of an old don_Film_Festival_members_booki at 9:30 and in person friend, ignites within him an uncontrollable set of emotions. Slowly his carefully constructed 08712 240 240 ng_form.pdf at 11:00 façade starts to unravel, giving way to a dangerous obsession”. Michael Blyth
Sunday 23rd October the Equator Festival (www.equatorfestival.com) Horsebridge Arts Adult £12 / Child £2 / Conc £8 Centre http://horsebridge-centre.org.uk/ BLACK UMFOLOSI 11 Horsebridge 5pm Ashford Kent Road, Whitstable CT5 1AF For more information: [email protected] www.equatorfestival.com 01227 281174
supported by Kent County Council, Arts Council England, Ashford Borough Council, Shepway Borough Council Council, Kent Music and ShivaNova
Black Umfolosi were formed in 1982.
Their performances are energy driven, mixing a gentleness of spirit and song with an exuberance in dance. Their trademark harmonies mixed with intricate rhythms, clicking and clapping are highlighted during their brilliantly choreographed shows with a full range of movements from subtle to vibrant stomping and leaping! Their famous Gumboot Dances showcase the traditional styles and rituals of the South African mining regions.
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Monday 24 October The London School of Economics and Political Science Old Theatre, Old For more information: LSE-UCT Joint Lecture Series Building 020 7955 6043 6.30-8pm The London School of IS SOUTH AFRICA MORE EQUAL TODAY THAN Economics and [email protected] WHEN APARTHEID ENDED IN 1994? Political Science London WC2A 2AE
Dr Max Price
CHAIR: Prossor Judith Rees
South Africa was one of the most unequal countries in the world in 1994. Since then, the democratic governments have pursued policies aimed at reducing inequality through economic development with relatively high rates of growth. And yet, household surveys and other data sources suggest that inequality in South African society may have increased. So what is going on?
Max Price is vice chancellor of the University of Cape Town.
Tuesday 25 October Rich Mix Rich Mix Further Information: Main Space http://www.richmix.org.uk/whats- 8pm THE RHYTHMS 35-47 Bethnal Green on/event/the-rhythms/ Rd London E1 6LA Tickets: £6 advance/£8 on the door [email protected] 020 7613 7498
contemporary urban African music powered by afrobeat rhythms Lead by bassist Femi Sofela of the African Jazz Allstars fame the Rhythms draw influences from Africa, Caribbean, South America and America
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Thursday 27 October Osun State University For more information: – Saturday 29 Oct International Conference Osogbo http://www.moviescholars.org THEORISATION AND CLASSIFICATION OF AFRICAN REGIONAL MOVIES Nigeria [email protected]
Enquiries: Dr. Kayode Animasaun, PhD College of Humanities and Culture Osun State University Ikire Campus Ikire Convener and Chairman LOC: +2348073787551, [email protected]
Gloria Ernest-Samuel Imo State University Owerri- Sec. LOC +2348035085625, [email protected]
Dr Ameh Akoh PhD H.O.D Sub Themes: Languages and Linguistics Trends in movie Theories. Department Existing Literary Theories and the need or not, for distinct African movie theories Osun State University, Ikire Campus Generating theories on African movies Ikire Emergent genres in African movies : +2348035992490, Movies and the relevance of African-specific genres [email protected] Classifying African urban and rural movies Gender and social issues in African movies, need for classical genrezation War and crime movies and proper classification Travel movies and issues of depiction African movies and the global media culture Representation of economic and political issues in African movies Africans’ contributions to the Theories of Gaze Sociology and Psychology of African movies
A non-refundable registration fee of N15, 000 or (USD 250, BP 150 for participants from the US, Europe, and other African countries)
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Thursday 27 October The London School of Economics and Political Science Wolfson Theatre For more information: Centre for the Study of Human Rights film screening and discussion New Academic 6.30-8pm FAMBUL TOK Building [email protected] The London School of or call 020 7955 6428 a film about the power of forgiveness Economics and Political Science [email protected] London WC2A 2AE
SPEAKER: Jon Lunn
Through reviving their ancient practice of fambul tok (family talk), Sierra Leoneans are building sustainable peace at the grass-roots level – succeeding where the international community’s post-conflict efforts failed.
Jon Lunn is a member of the board of Fambul Tok International.
Monday 31 October The London School of Economics and Political Science Wolfson Theatre For more information: Ideas Public Debate New Academic 6.30-8pm Building [email protected] The London School of or call 020 7955 6428 THE AID/TRADE DEBATE: AFRICA AND GLOBALISATION Economics and Political Science [email protected] London WC2A 2AE
SPEAKER: Dr Shanta Devarajan ; DISCUSSANT: Eric-Vincent Guichard; CHAIR: Dr Sue Onslow
The aid versus trade debate is part of the academic discussion around African development and economic growth. Dr Devarajan gives his perspective on Africa and globalisation.
Shanta Devarajan is chief economist of the World Bank’s Africa Region. Eric-Vincent Guichard is chairman and CEO of GRAVITAS Capital Advisors, Inc.
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Wednesday 2 Nov SOAS Room G51, College For more information: Faculty of Arts & Humanities, Anthropology Department, Social Anthropology Seminar Series Buildings Russell +44 (0)20 7637 2388 3-4:30pm POLITICS, PROSTITUTION AND THE EMERGENCE OF A NEW POPULAR Square AUDIENCE IN 1920S LAGOS School of Oriental Dr Edward Simpson and African Studies [email protected]
London WC1H 0XG 020 7898 4481 Professor Karin Barber University of Birmingham
Dr Magnus Marsden [email protected] Open to members of the public 020 7898 4491
Saturday 5 Nov Black History Walks Film Premiere / African Odysseys at the BFI BFI For more information: MIRACLE AT ST ANNA Southbank http://www.bfi.org.uk/ 2-5pm Belvedere Road
London SE1
Rated R (Strong language and violence) See video clip http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcKPi5DyGWs
In World War 2 thousands of African-American troops were sent to fight for freedom and democracy on behalf of the USA which refused black people to right to vote. Initially the Armed Forces were reluctant to use black troops but due to the agitation of the US black community and the increasing casualty rate segregated units like the 92nd Infantry, the 761 Black Panther Tank Battalion and the Tuskeegee airmen were sent into action.
The film follows the exploits of the 92nd infantry division and their activities in Italy when a small unit is trapped behind enemy lines and discovers a priceless artefact, a massive war crime and a supernatural statue.
The film will be followed by a Q and A with a WW2 veteran
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Sunday 6 November the Equator Festival (www.equatorfestival.com) Youth Theatre Adult £12 / Child £2 / Conc £8 1 Dover Place http://www.equatorfestival.com/b 5pm BLACK UMFOLOSI Ashford TN23Road, ooking-form.html Whitstable CT5 1AF
For more information: [email protected] www.equatorfestival.com 01227 281174
supported by Kent County Council, Arts Council England, Ashford Borough Council, Shepway Borough Council Council, Kent Music and ShivaNova
Black Umfolosi were formed in 1982 by school friends in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, who named themselves after the Umfolozi Omnyama River in South Africa..
Their performances are energy driven, mixing a gentleness of spirit and song with an exuberance in dance. Their trademark harmonies mixed with intricate rhythms, clicking and clapping are highlighted during their brilliantly choreographed shows with a full range of movements from subtle to vibrant stomping and leaping! Their Gumboot Dances showcase the traditional styles and rituals of the South African mining regions.
Monday 7 November African Peoples Advocacy Book Launch Brunei Gallery For more information please Everyday Heroes Lecture Theatre, contact Angelica at 6-9pm School of Oriental [email protected] Learning from the Careers of Successful Black Professionals and African Studies, followed by a by Frances Mensah Williams (SOAS) Thornhaugh reception and book- Street, Russell signing session. Chair: Joyce Ohadja, Broadcaster (TBC) Square, London WC1H 0XG Copies of the book on a collection of interviews with sixteen professionals from different careers including law, sale for £10.00 (retail accountancy, music, publishing, medicine, banking and architecture. price £12.99). The event is free and all are welcome.
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Monday 7th Nov the Equator Festival (www.equatorfestival.com) Quarterhouse Adult £10 / Child £1/ Conc £8/ Tontine Street Friends £7 7.45pm BLACK UMFOLOSI Folkestone CT20 1JR http://www.quarterhouse.co.uk/
For more information: 01303 858 500
supported by Kent County Council, Arts Council England, Ashford Borough Council, Shepway Borough Council Council, Kent Music and ShivaNova
Black Umfolosi were formed in 1982 by school friends in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Their trademark harmonies mixed with intricate rhythms, clicking and clapping are highlighted during their brilliantly choreographed shows. Their Gumboot Dances showcase the traditional styles and rituals of the South African mining regions.
Friday 18 November the Equator Festival (www.equatorfestival.com) Brook Theatre Adult £9, Child (4-16)£2, Conc £6 Old Town Hall http://www.medwayticketslive.co. 7.30pm KASAI MASAI Chatham uk/ Kent ME4 4SE www.kasaimasai.com
(with dance workshop 6.30pm) For more information: 01634 338338
supported by Kent County Council, Arts Council England, Ashford Borough Council, Shepway Borough Council Council, Kent Music and ShivaNova
Kasai Masai presents traditional equatorial African music with an urban twist and rhythms to dance to. This is the sound of the old and the new, of the countryside and the city
Kasai Masai are a five piece band led by Nickens Nkoso. Written in Swahili, Lingala and Kimongo, the lyrics reflect the diversity of a region where more than 400 languages are spoken. Nickens has previously collaborated with artists such as Koffi Olomide, Papa Wemba, Kanda Bongoman, Mose Fan Fan and Samba Mapangala
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Sat 19 November Call for papers Africa Media Centre Further information from & Sun 20 November DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS FRIDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 2011 University of Helen Cohen, Events Administrator Women in Film Conference Westminster at [email protected] OVERCOMING SOCIAL BARRIERS Marylebone Campus 35 Marylebone Road the contemporary and historical role played by women in the film, television and video London NW1 5LS industries in Africa. - The fee for registration (which applies to all From the Arab North Africa, West Africa, Central and East Africa, through to participants, including Southern Africa, women have emerged from the double oppression of patriarchy presenters) will be £135 and colonialism to become the unsung heroines of the moving image as producers, - concessionary rate for directors, actresses, script writers, financiers, promoters, marketers and students £55 distributors of film, television and video in postcolonial Africa - Registration will open in such contributions by women are underrepresented, both in industry debates and September 2011 in academic research - Abstracts should be 200 There are now many cases in which African women in front of and behind the words long camera have overcome social barriers and yet this is sidelined. - They must include the title of the conference,
presenter's name, students, practitioners, academics and researchers are invited to debate how women have affiliation, email and contributed to film, television and video markets in Africa from pre-colonial, colonial to postal address, together postcolonial periods. with the title of the paper - Please ensure your name Papers can include the following themes: is part of the abstract file - The Influence of Feminism on African filmmakers name. - Women in front and behind the camera in African film - Women in the African feature film industry - Women in technical roles in film, video and television in Africa - Women documentary makers in Africa - Gender and Representation of Women in African film - Audiences for films by African women/Female audiences in Africa - Case histories of leading African women film makers - Women scriptwriters - African women acting in video, film and television - Censorship and the portrayal of African women in film and television - The role of NGOs in commissioning women filmmakers and issue-based films - How African governments have helped or hindered filmmaking by African women
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Monday 21 Nov The London School of Economics and Political Science Old Theatre, Old For more information: Chevening Gurukul Lecture 2011 Building 020 7955 6043 6.30-8pm The London School of THE GLOBAL VALUE OF THE COMMONWEALTH Economics and [email protected] Kamalesh Sharma Political Science London WC2A 2AE
CHAIR: Howard Machin
Kamalesh Sharma will reflect on the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in October 2011, which is expected to adopt reforms that will renew the focus and increase the impact of the Commonwealth.
Tuesday 22 Nov Book Launch Brunei Suite For more information: LUKA JANTJIE: RESISTANCE HERO OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN FRONTIER School of Oriental Angelica Baschiera 6pm and African Studies [email protected] London WC1H 0XG
by Kevin Shillington published by Aldridge Press, September 2010
“a powerful and moving account of one man’s remarkable resistance to colonial rule” Shula Marks, Emeritus Professor, School of Oriental and African Studies
Luka Jantjie’s place in history has been overshadowed by events elsewhere. This book redresses the balance. This new biography recovers the history of this remarkable man and his Batswana people – a history which was effectively obliterated by the forced removals and land confiscations which followed events in the Langeberg.
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Saturday 26 Royal Institute of For more information: November British Architects www.tedxeuston.com (RIBA) 10am-9pm TEDxEuston 2011 66 Portland Place To register: London W1B 1AD http://www.eventbrite.com/event/ For a third year, TEDxEuston reflects ideas and inspired thinking of a new generation of 1889935849?ref=ebtn African thinkers and leaders, positive about the continent TEDxEuston is licensed by TED, and WITH like all TED events, is run as a not- Arnold Ekpe : Group Chief Executive Officer of Ecobank Transnational, Inc., and its for-profit event. It is organised by subsidiary, Ecobank Group since 2005. an entirely volunteer group of Rt. Hon Paul Boateng MP: British Labour Party politician for Brent South 1987 to African professionals. Speakers are carefully selected to reflect the 2005 diversity of thinking and action on Toyin Saraki : Founder of The WellBeing Foundation, maternal & child health focused the continent from the arts, NGO in Nigeria & until recently the First Lady of Kwara State in the North Central business communities and the Region of Nigeria. public sector. Hadeel Ibrahim : founding executive director of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, established in 2006 to support African leadership. Kayode Fayemi, Governor of Ekiti state in Nigeria. Lola Shoneyin; "The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives" is set in modern-day Nigeria and is about four wives and one husband exploring the intricacies of family life. Moky Makura : TV presenter/producer, publisher, writer, actress and entrepreneur. Jerome Okolo’s life story provides a vivid illustration of the tumultuous and rapidly changing story of the second half of the 20th Century. Herman Chinery-Hesse co-founded the SOFTtribe Limited, the leading software house in Ghana. Herman’s Black Star line (BSL), seeks to financially empower rural Africans via e-commerce via their webmall (www.shopafric53.com). Kola Karim is the Chief Executive of Shoreline Energy International Helen Lieberman is the founder and Honorary President of Ikamva Labantu Femi Temowo is a guitarist ‘par excellence’. His latest project sees him in a Trio/Quartet setting, experimenting with Nigerian folk sounds and jazz song form. Kwame Kwei-Armah is a musician, playwright and actor Paula Akugizibwe, writer and activist, was born in Nigeria to parents of Rwandan and Ugandan origin and grew up largely in Southern Africa.
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Monday 28 Nov BEWARE 0F THE DRAGON: Africa should not look to China Cadogen Hall
6pm 5 Sloane Terrace Tickets are £25 and can be London SW1X 9DQ purchased online : Doors open at http://www.intelligencesquared.com 6:00pm. The debate /events/beware-of-the-dragon Tel: 020 7730 4500 will begin at 6.45pm and finish at 8.30pm Students £12:50
We all We all know that the Chinese are the neo-colonialists of Africa. They’ve plundered the continent of its natural resources, tossing aside any concern for human rights and doing deals with some of the world’s most unsavoury regimes. The relentless pursuit of growth is China’s only spur.
But is this picture really fair? In Angola, for example, China’s low-interest loans have been tied to a scheme that has ensured that roads, schools and other infrastructure has been built. China has an impressive track record of lifting its own millions out of poverty and can do the same for Africa. And is the West’s record in Africa as glowing as we like to think? After decades of pouring aid into Africa, how much have we actually achieved in terms of reducing poverty, corruption and war? So which way should Africa look for salvation – to the West, to China, or perhaps to its own people? Come to the debate and decide for yourself.
Tuesday 29 Nov Oxford University China-Africa Network (OUCAN) Symposium St. Antony's College For more information: University of Oxford [email protected] CHINA’S AID, INVESTMENT & DIPLOMACY IN SOUTH EAST ASIA & AFRICA: Cross-regional Learning and Knowledge Sharing
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Tues 29 November Conference: Kwara State Further information - Sat 02 Dec University http://kwasu.edu.ng/acln2011/ Women in Literature and Films in Northern Nigeria Malete Kwara State NIGERIA Contact: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
[email protected] Gender, and sexuality will form the basis of the academic scholarship for this year’s
conference. Women as creative writers and as characters in northern Nigeria and their
constraints as individuals within a religious and socially conservative society will be examined Hotel reservations: in relation to women’s issues in the literature and films of contemporary Northern Nigeria. http://kwasu.edu.ng/acln2011/hot el-reservation Speakers include:Professor Abiola Irele, Provost, College of Humanities, Management and Social sciences, Kwara State University; Professor Zainab Alkali, Deputy Vice Chancellor, Nasarawa State University. Her works form a sub-theme of the conference; Professor Mary Kolawole, HOD, Language and Literary Studies, KWASU &Dr. Halimat Sikula, on sabbatical at Kwara State University where she teaches literature of the 20th century, a vibrant, radical novelist and poet
Subthemes: Women images in popular culture Psychology of gendered behaviours in literary works Language in northern Nigerian women literature Northern Nigerian women literature and political awareness Women writers and images of women The works of Zaynab Alkali Islam, women, literature and films in Northern Nigeria Portrayal of women in northern Nigerian Literature Imaging of women in northern Nigerian films Kannywood and representation of gender issues. Women as sexual symbols in northern Nigerian literature Women singers and performers Women film makers and actresses. Women, dance and music in northern Nigeria dramatic performance Women themes in traditional oral performances Women and religion in northern Nigerian films or literature The influence of Western Education on northern Nigerian literature
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Luka Jantjie: Resistance Hero of the South African Frontier, by Kevin Shillington, published by Aldridge Press, September 2010.
“a powerful and moving account of one man’s remarkable resistance to colonial rule” Shula Marks, Emeritus Professor, School of Oriental and African Studies
Luka Jantjie is a neglected hero of resistance to British colonialism in South Africa. His place in history has been overshadowed by events elsewhere. This book redresses the balance. Born around 1835 and brought up as a literate Christian, Luka developed an abiding respect for peace and non-violence. But his refusal to give in to local colonisers intensified their hostility. Luka was twice forced to take up arms to defend himself and his people. This struggle culminated in a violent six-month siege in 1897 in the rugged landscape of the Langeberg on the southern fringes of the Kalahari. This new biography recovers the history of this remarkable man and his Batswana people – a history which was effectively obliterated by the forced removals and land confiscations which followed events in the Langeberg. ORDER DETAILS: Price: £18.95 paperback; 336 pages; illustrated with 250 pictures – contemporary and modern – includes 30 colour photos, 22 maps. To order discounted copies, contact John Aldridge, Aldridge Press by email: [email protected]
Dr Nic Cheeseman, James Smith and Andrea Scheibler new website: DEMOCRACYINAFRICA: http://www.democracyinafrica.co.uk . http://www.democracyinafrica.co.uk is dedicated to creating an online community of people that are interested in, and care about, the state of democracy in Africa. The website will collect together a wealth of information about politics in Africa, along with a regular blog about the latest political developments and research on the continent. For example, you can now download a free podcast of Thomas Carothers, the respected expert on democracy promotion at the Carnegie Endowment for Peace, speaking about the pros and cons of international democracy promotion activities in Africa here: http://www.democracyinafrica.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=66:thomas-carothers&catid=1:blog. If you are interested in writing blog entries or posting your research findings on the site, we would like to hear from you. To see how you can contribute, please go here: http://www.democracyinafrica.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=45&Itemid=85. Dr Nic Cheeseman, University Lecturer in African Politics, Oxford University, Hugh Price Fellow, Jesus College., Book Reviews Editor, Journal of Modern African Studies African Studies Centre, 13 Bevington Road, Oxford, OX2 6LH, 01865 613 904. www.africanstudies.ox.ac.uk
UCL West Africa Seminar Fridays at 4.30 pm in the Daryll Forde Seminar Room, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW. Autumn 2011 seminars will be announced soon. http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/seminar_series/#5
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SOAS Concert Series runs from October to May and features 12 concerts. The new season will start on 21 October 2011 - the full programme will be published in late September. All concerts start at 7pm. Free admission to all concerts - No Booking Required. Venue capacity is limited and operated on a first come first served system. Venue: Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, SOAS, University of London, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG. Enquiries: 020 7898 4500 ; [email protected]
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The Britain-Nigeria Educational Trust 2011 Charity Christmas Card & Appeal
Nigerian Market Scene by B-NET member, Pamela Hill.
- printed to an A6 (6"x4") size, landscape style with the message "Season’s Greetings" or plain as a notelet or in packs mixed 50:50. If you would like to see a sample before ordering please request one by email to B-NET Administrator, Frances Tarr ([email protected] ) - Prices including envelopes and postage:£8.00 for packs of 12 (£11.00 for Europe/ £13.00 for overseas); £12.00 packs of 24 (£15.00 Europe /£18.00 for overseas) - To order please complete the attached form and return to the office : The Britain-Nigeria Educational Trust, Africa Centre, 3rd Floor, 38 King Street, London WC2E 8JT together with a cheque made payable to The Britain-Nigeria Educational Trust. Proceeds make a meaningful contribution to the financing of B-NET educational projects throughout Nigeria and, should you wish, there is provision on the form for a donation and any amount, however small, will be appreciated. Gift Aiding this will make it worth almost one third more by allowing the Educational Trust to claim back the tax.
The date for the next B-NET AGM has been provisionally set for Thursday July 12, 2012
From Elizbeth Dudley, Events Coordinator THE BRITAIN–NIGERIA EDUCATIONAL TRUST (Registered Charity No. 1120876) The Africa Centre, 3rd Floor 38 King Street, LONDON WC2E 8JT [email protected] http://www.britain-nigeria.org/ http://www.britain-nigeria.org/mem_donations.htm Please consider the environment. Do you really need to print this email
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