A long weekend, lots of festivities,
barbeques, pomp, circumstance and rain! It can only be a London summer! Well we
at Proud to be African Clothing were happy to get into the Jubilee swing of
things this weekend. 
On Saturday we attended Passion for
Homeland at Greenwich University. This event hosted by the universities Nigerian
Students Association was well attended get together for Nigerian students and their
friends, which saw performances and presentations by invited guests.
Stylesafrik the new online fashion store website for African Fashion
has gone live!!! Make sure you check it out for your designer fashion, urban
wear and children’s wear as well as innovative and inspiring homewear section
giving buyers the opportunity to purchase limited edition handmade items made
by artist using traditional methods
Upcoming
Events
On Wednesday 6th June is
Sahara Nights at the Roundhouse featuring live music and spoken word from
Shawari performers from Western Sahara under a tent at the Roundhouse, Camden
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| Obi Emeleonye |
Friday the 9th of June sees
a host of stellar events. Obi Emeleonye’s latest blockbuster ‘Last Flight toAbuja’ premieres at Troxy Cinema, 490 Commercial Road, London, E1 0HX. The movie
written and directed by Obi Emeleonye and produced by Charles Thompson concerns
the travails of the passengers of Flamingo Airways last scheduled flight from
Lagos to Abuja. A combination of events leads the flight teetering on the edge
of disaster. A series of flashbacks shows the various ways and means that each
passenger ended up on the flight with all sensing impending doom, except one
person! Why, what does he know and will the plane make it?
I guess you’ll have to be there to
find out!
Tickets are £20 Economy, £30 Business
class and £50 First class and can be bought here.
The film features a stellar cast and stars
Hakim Kae Kazim, Jim Iyke, Omotola
Jalade Ekeinde amongst others.
The films premiere is dedicated to the
Nigerians who lost their lives in the tragic Dana Air accident on Sunday.
Also on Friday the 8th of June at the Logan Hall, 20
Bedford Way is the The Spirit of Afrika an exciting new musical that captures
the true diversity of the continent. It consists of an array of UK- based
African dance performance groups, including Kenyan, Senegal, Ivory coast,
Zimbabwean, Guinea, Ethiopian, Mali, Ghanaian, Ugandan, Nigerian and
South African Zulu dance troupes, who have joined forces for a one of a
kind production. The enthralling epic storyline sees East meet West and South collides with North, as all of Africa prays for rain after the villagers
of Bamba commit atrocities and the Gods punish them by bringing drought to the
entire African regions. Instead of acknowledging their mistakes and seeking
forgiveness they get an evil, wicked seer, to lie that the sacrifice should be
the virgin girl called Amani, because she is different. Tickets are from £10-£25 with 10% off for group bookings.
Dates:
8th
June, 7.30pm-Logan Hall
Box Office 07853 942 068
10th
June, 5.00pm -St Albans
Box Office 01727 844 488
15th June, 7.30pm -Broadway Theatre Catford, London
Box Office 020 8690 0002
On Saturday the 9th of June Nigerian Students Union UK
(NSUUK) is bringing the various Nigerian student bodies together for a 1st
Nigerian Students Societies Football Challenge at Powerleague Catford, Canadian
Avenue, SE6 4SW. Come and indulge in that most Nigerian of past times, football!!!
Cheer on your friends and university team. Its £20 per team to enter and we are
promised EPL footballers to present prizes, cash prizes, goody bags, Naija food,
free parking, entertainment and fine fine Naija girls (ok so I added the last
one myself but a man can only dream!)
Lets not forget Janice Okoh's Egusi Soup is still playing at the Soho Theatre until Saturday the 9th of June
As well as Bola Agbajee's Belong in Peckham
Oya enjoy the shortened week and see
you later for an exciting weekend!!
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