The healthier lifestyle magazine for Africans Issue 19 - Winter 2017 FREE COPY MISS THE CHANCE CONGO TO BEAT UK HIV IS IN Horcelie inspiring SIGHT her community. Rates are falling + new ways to stop HIV. ZOE’S GHANA KITCHEN Pop-up MAMBO success CULTURE for the New music, queen theatre of cuisine. and books. PLUS CHRISTMAS. HEALTH. SUPPORT. Services in London and Brighton • Groups and workshops • Accredited financial and welfare advice • Emotional support For more information visit: www.tht.org.uk/hwh or email: [email protected] The HIV and sexual health charity for life Website: www.tht.org.uk | | Registered office: 314-320 Gray’s Inn Road, London WC1X 8DP Tel: 020 7812 1600 Email: [email protected] Terrence Higgins Trust is a registered charity in England and Wales (reg no. 288527) and in Scotland (SC039986). Company reg. no. 1778149. Check out our new and improved website! culture Dear Readers, 04 The latest books, music, movies and theatre Welcome to the latest issue of . cuisine We are coming to the end of the year and 06 The success of Zoe’s are hoping you have had a very fruitful 2017. Ghana Kitchen people This year has been a very significant one in terms of efforts to beat HIV, Talking to Horcelie as the UK recorded a significant drop in the number of people newly diagnosed 08 Sinda Wa Mbongo, with the virus. This has given health experts the confidence to say that the Miss Congo UK possibility of beating HIV really is within sight. We have put together some key information to help you and others play a part in bringing an end to the spread Beating HIV of HIV. As African people in the UK we face challenges with late diagnoses and 10 Through action we we hope this issue of will inspire you to engage the community to take can beat HIV more action. Christmas Festive fun We spoke to the inspirational Horcelie Sinda Wa Mbongo who is the reigning 17 Miss Congo UK. We are sure you will find her story uplifting and leaving you Men’s health raring to go to make a difference. We also take you on the culinary journey of 20 Discussing prostate Zoe Adjonyoh and her restaurant, Zoe’s Ghana Kitchen. We are always keen to cancer hear stories of people doing amazing things in their communities. If you know someone whose story we should feature in Mambo, please do not hesitate to Ask the experts get in touch with us. 24Our experts answer your dilemmas Don’t miss out on Ask the Experts - where our resident doctor and counselling psychologist provide solutions to problems others are facing. If you have your support Help and support own problem you would like resolved, please send it in and we’ll have an expert 27 respond to you. African 30 round-up Happy reading and have a fabulous festive season. News from across the Taku Mukiwa continent [email protected] © Terrence Higgins Trust, November 2017. Code: 7276200. Registered office: 314-320 Gray’s In Road, YOUR COMMENTS PLEASE! London WC1X 8DP. Find us on Terrence Higgins Trust is a registered We would like to know what you think of Facebook charity in England and Wales magazine. If you have any questions (reg. no. 288527) and in Scotland www.facebook.com/ (SC039986). Company reg. no. 1778149. about this resource, or would like information A company limited by guarantee. on the evidence used to produce it, please email MamboLifestyle [email protected] or leave a comment on Follow us www.mambo.org.uk on Twitter Alternatively, you could write to: @MamboLifestyle Cover photograph by THOMAS KNIGHTS The Editor, magazine, Terrence Higgins Trust, 314-320 Gray’s Inn Road, London, WC1X 8DP. Winter 2017 03 CULTURE. What’s happening in the world of culture, family? Here is a compilation of five things to read, watch and listen to as the nights draw in. DARE NOT LINGER: THE PRESIDENTIAL YEARS NELSON MANDELA AND MANDLA LANGA The sequel to Nelson Mandela’s highly acclaimed autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom, was released in October. Entitled Dare Not Linger, the book looks at the five years that Mr Mandela was president of South Africa. Mr Mandela was the first democratically elected president of South Africa in 1994 following the fall of apartheid. The book was handwritten by Mr Mandela, but had to be completed by South African author Mandla Langa. This was due to Mr Mandela’s old age and failing health prior to his death. The title of the book is taken from the final sentence of Long Walk to Freedom: ‘With freedom comes responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not ended.’ Mr Mandela’s widow, Graca Machel, wrote the prologue. We can’t wait to get our hands on it. CHRISTMAS PARTY WITH DJOUNA MUMBAFU FRIDAY 15 DECEMBER, ROPETACKLE ARTS CENTRE, SHOREHAM-BY-SEA, WEST SUSSEX The former lead vocalist for the great Pepe Kalle and Empire Bakuba brings a nine-piece band, Orchestra Big One, to Shoreham-by-Sea for a Christmas party. The lively Congolese musician - who is well known as an innovator in the world of soukous and rumba - will also be bringing his spectacular choreography. Everyone is advised to wear their dancing shoes to the show. 04 Winter 2017 I AM NOT A WITCH BARBER SHOP CHRONICLES DIRECTOR, 20 NOVEMBER, NATIONAL THEATRE RUNGANO NYONI Featuring a stellar cast, this is one not to miss. Having already had Zambian-born Welsh a critically acclaimed run, the show returns to the National Theatre director Rungano Nyoni’s in November. The play was written by Inua Ellams and it explores debut feature film, I Am Not stories about black men. It is set in barber shops from Peckham a Witch, premiered at the to Johannesburg, Harare, Kampala, Lagos and Accra. It’s an Cannes Film Festival. It has exhilarating play not to miss. Make sure your ribs are healthy before been highly commended for your go because you will almost certainly laugh too hard. tackling the serious issue of witch hunting which many are surprised is still happening in this modern age. Despite the heavy subject, the film is packed with humour and doesn’t hold back for fear of being politically incorrect. The British Film Institute labelled it ‘the most dazzling British debut feature of 2017’. The film is about a nine-year-old girl, Shula. After a minor incident in her village, she is exiled to a ADEKUNLE GOLD AND THE 79TH ELEMENT travelling witch camp where 29 JUNE 2018, INDIGO AT THE O2, LONDON she is told that if she tries Tickets are already on sale for the Nigerian hit-maker’s show to escape she will be scheduled for next year at The O2, London. Following a sold-out transformed into a goat. As show in June of this year at the O2 Academy, the award-winning she navigates through her musician will be back to wow the crowds with his mesmerising new life, she must decide music. whether to accept her fate or risk the consequences of seeking freedom. Maggie Mulubwa stars. Winter 2017 05 IT’S GHANA BE GOOD! BRINGING FOOD TO THE WORLD WITH ZOE’S GHANA KITCHEN At we are always on the lookout for African excellence in the UK, and our culinary explorations brought Zoe’s Ghana Kitchen to our attention. This year she was considered a ‘standard bearer for West African cuisine’ in The Observer’s Rising Star list. We saw Zoe’s food mentioned on social media, saw her book in Foyles bookshop, she was at festivals and on television. Taku Mukiwa just had to hear the remarkable story of Zoe Adjonyoh and her fabulous Zoe’s Ghana Kitchen. 06 Winter 2017 WHO IS ZOE? Zoe is from south east London and was born to a Ghanaian SO WHAT’S THE ALL EXCITEMENT ABOUT? Photograph by Camille Mack father and Irish mother. You may be asking what all the She’s a writer by trade who fuss is about if, like lots of us, she completed an MA in Creative makes homemade favourites and and Life Writing at Goldsmiths, uses traditional flavours. Now University of London. So how here is the deal. Zoe is bringing does a writer become a chef? Ghanaian food to the masses, Interestingly, Zoe insists she is not just Ghanaians. As such, this not a chef in the usual ‘chef’ is about inviting everyone to sort of way but is more focused enjoy Ghanaian cuisine. on homemade favourites and Since she started out, Zoe has traditional flavours. Zoe explains: ‘I believe we are travelled to festivals across on the cusp of an African food Europe and taught people how In 2010, after selling her peanut revolution. There is a longing to cook Ghanaian food. This is butter stew from the front of her to try something that is a journey we are keen to keep house during Hackney Wicked actually new, not just re-spun, watching as African cuisines Arts Festival, some of her and African cuisines are filling continue to get the attention customers and friends that gap. It’s the last continent of and appreciation they deserve. suggested that she should cook relatively unexplored food in the some more. This led to a Supper mainstream domain. For too Club, hosted in her living room. long Africans have kept this Zoe’s book, Zoe’s Ghana She sharpened her skills in Ghana incredible food a greedy secret.’ Kitchen, is available to buy in her grandmother’s kitchen and on Amazon.