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It’s Africa Month, a time to celebrate our cultural traditions and honour the great diversity and talent that make up our continent.
The below three events are what Africa Month is all about: they bring together some of our greatest thinkers and musicians in celebration and discussion. Make a date in your diary. These are not to be missed:
Reflections on Africa’s Emancipation Post the North African Uprisings of 2010
Tonight (May 24), 6.45pm
Joburg Theatre, The Fringe
This panel will feature Mona Eltahawy (Egypt), Nomboniso Gasa (South Africa) and Panashe Chigumadzi (Zimbabwe).
Mona Eltahawy is an award-winning columnist and international public speaker on Arab and Muslim issues and global feminism. She is based in Cairo and New York City. She is the author of Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution, and is a contributor to the New York Times. Newsweek magazine named Eltahawy one of its 150 Fearless Women of 2012. Time magazine featured her along with other activists from around the world as one of its people of the year and Arabian Business magazine named her one of the 100 Most Powerful Arab Women.
» Mona Eltahawy and gender and land activist Nomboniso Gasa will also be talking on May 25 at Ruth First Auditorium, Harry Gwala Street at 7pm, Waterberg District, Modimolle, Limpopo.
Celebrating African Music
Mandela Stage, Joburg Theatre
Friday, May 27, 8pm
Tickets R150 at webtickets.co.za, joburgtheatre.com or at the door. Alternatively, call 0861 670 670
Multi awardwinning guitarist Jimmy Dludlu and his band will be one of the main highlights at Joburg Theatre. It is a special curated programme titled África South Voices, and features the vocals of Zamajobe, Thandi Ntuli on keyboard, and singers Selmor Mtukudzi and Tariro neGitare from Zimbabwe. This programme is produced by Steve Dyer and will also feature Zimbabweans Louis Mhlanga and Tendai Manatsa on guitar; Irebolaji Arowolo and Amaeshi Ikechi (both from Nigeria) on drums and bass together with Dyer on sax and flute.
Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka at Soweto Theatre
Soweto Theatre, Joburg
Monday, May 30, 7pm
Entrance free but booking essential
The arts and culture department, in conjunction with the African Independent Newspaper and Press Club South Africa is hosting Professor Wole Soyinka at the Soweto Theatre. Soyinka is a Nigerian playwright and poet and the first African to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986. He is known for his strong criticism of his country’s successive governments, especially its many military dictators and other political tyrannies and has taught at several international universities including Oxford, Harvard and Yale. Soyinka will be discussing the topic Politics, Culture and the New African on Monday evening. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to hear one of our continent’s foremost intellectuals speak. Don’t miss it.
Enquiries and bookings to be directed to Wandi Nkosi: africamonthcolloquiam@gmail.com or Nonceba Ntintili: urbanart10@gmail.com
