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Jambo,
Another short week, but packed with some of Proud to be African Clothing’s favourite events, from Markets to Comedy to Awards, Music,
Fun Days, Seminars, rallies and lectures.
Two stand out events on Monday at 11.00am is #BringBackOurGirls
Solidarity Rally in London at the Nigeria High Commission for Nigerians,
Africans, friends of Nigeria and Africa and all right minded people should come
and lend their voices in solidarity for the release for the schoolgirls
kidnapped by terrorists in Northeastern Nigeria.
On Friday is TheAfrican Comedy Show, with South Africa’s Chris Forest, Nigeria’s Gandoki, Malawi’s
Daliso, Somalia’s Prince Abdi, Zimbabwe’s Wayne and Kenya’s Njambi McGrath. More
details below
Have a great week
Monday 5th May
From 10.00am to 12.00
midnight is Caribbean Family Fun Day
at North Middlesex Cricket Club,
Park Road, N8 8JJ. Featuring 20 x 20 Cricket Tournament (Barbados XI,
Montserrat XI, Academy XI and Big Pappy’s Liming Brigade Celebrity XI),
children events, Steel Pans, Carnival masquerades, bouncy castles (children and
adults), face painting, tug of war, Bingo and Dominoes, stalls, tutorials on
carnival and steel pan and an After Party hosted by Martin Jay. Admission is £7.50 for over 16 year olds, £4.50 for 5-16 year olds and FREE for under 5’s.Family tickets (2 Adults and 2 Children ) £18.00 from here. £10.00 for over 16 year olds, £5.50
for 5-16 year olds and FREE for
under 5’s.Family tickets (2 Adults and 2
Children ) £25.00 on the door.
From 11.00am to
5.00pm Open the Gate presents The
African Market, at Old Spitalfields
Market, Horner Square, E1 6EW. Hosted by Zena Edwards and Usifu Jalloh with
drumming workshops, West African story telling with Usifu Jalloh, face
painting, live music with the Anna Mudeka Band, DJ Koichi Sakai and a catwalk
show by Christelle Kedi, head wrapping taster demo. There will be Mosaic
workshops with Oemamu Mosaics, Face painting and glitter tattoo with Kemi,
Massage Therapy by Mariama Ndaye as well as stalls with fashion, books,
accessories, jewellery, food and much more.
FREE entry all day
From 11.00am to
3.00pm is #BringBackOurGirls Solidarity
Rally in London at the Nigeria High
Commission, 9 Northumberland Avenue, WC2N 5BX. Nigerians, Africans, friends
of Nigeria and Africa and all right minded people should come and lend their
voices in solidarity for the release for the schoolgirls kidnapped by
terrorists in Northeastern Nigeria. More details here.
Tuesday 6th May
At 6.00pm Chatham
House presents Ebola and Emerging
Infectious Diseases: Measuring the Risk at Chatham House, 10 St James Square,
SW1Y 4LE. Chaired by Alison Holmes (Imperial College) with Dr Osman Dar
(Public Health England), Professor David L. Heymann (Chatham House), Richard
Smith (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) and Armand Sprecher
(Medecins Sans Frontieres), this panel will discuss the threat of emerging
infectious diseases in West Africa and the threat they possess in a globalised
world and the challenges of control and prevention. To attend this event please
contact the Chatham House Events Team here.
Wednesday 7th May
Thursday 8th May
At 10.30am
Chatham House presents Cameroun’s
Influence in Emerging Africa: Priorities in a Globalized World at the Royal Institute of International Affairs,
Chatham House. Chaired by Anne McCormick (Diageo Africa), the Prime
Minister of Cameroun Philemon Yang will discuss recent developments in
Cameroun, the process and challenges of modernisation and Cameroun’s
international and regional priorities. Register for this event here.
At 3.00pm Chatham
House presents Somali Refugees in Kenya:
The Case of the Dadaab Camp at the Royal
Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House. Ben Rawlence (Human
Rights Watch) will present the main findings of his yearlong research in Dadaab
Camp, northern Kenya-the largest refugee camp in the world, highlighting the
frustrations of the inhabitants with the Kenyan and Somali governments.
Register for this event here.
At 6.00pm BTWSC
presents Look How Far We’ve Come:
Getting Racism Back On the Agenda? Conference at The Abbey Centre, 34 Great
Smith Street, Westminster, SW1P 3BU. The event will consist with a series
of presentations, followed by workshops, the outcomes of which will be
deliberated over in a plenary session to highlight priority points. Register
for this FREE event here.
At 6.30pm the
Royal African Society hosts Wole Soyinka
at 80 at The British Library, 96
Euston Road, NW1 2DB. Editor and critic Margaret Busby will be in
conversation with Professor Wole Soyinka (the first African Nobel Prize Winner
for Literature) discussing his work and the relationship between culture and
politics. The event will also be the launch and book signing of Essays in Honour of Wole Soyinka by Ivor
Agyeman-Duah and Promise Ogochukwu. Admission is £10.00 (£8.00 and £6.00 concs).
At 7.00pm is The Turning
Point Movie Screening at Stratford
Picture House Cinema, Salway Road, E15 1BX. This night will feature a VIP
Champagne Lounge reception, after party and Directors Q&A with Niyi
Towolawi. Turning Point set in New
York and Lagos features an international cast as well as Nigerian directors,
explores ethnic prejudices, blurred moral lines, revenge and deception as
Nigerian American investment banker Ade abandons his faithful African American
girlfriend to accept an arranged marriage back home with a stranger. Starring
Todd Bridges, Ernie Hudson, Jackie Appiah, Patience Ozokwor, Igoni Archibong
and K.D. Aubert, screening only tickets are £20.00, VIP tickets £40.00
from here.
At 8.00pm is Oya, Oshun and Yemaya at Brixton East Gallery, 100 Barrington Road,
Brixton, SW9 7JF. This is a celebration of three deities from Yoruba
traditional worship with the music of the London Lucumi Choir, the folkloric
dancing of Yolanda Perez, the contemporary styling’s of Hannah Anderson Rickets
and Ffion Campbel-Davis, spoken word from Jacob V Joyce and visual art by
Janine Francoise. Admission is £5.00 in
advance from here and £10.00 on the
door.
Friday 9th May
At 11.00am is the
third #BringBackOurGirls Solidarity
Rally in London meeting at Trafalgar
Square for a march to the Nigeria
High Commission for all right minded people should come and lend their
voices in solidarity for the release for the schoolgirls kidnapped by
terrorists in Northeastern Nigeria.
At 4.30pm the
Thurstan Shaw Memorial Committee presents The
Enigma of Igbo- Ukwu at The Biffen
Lecture Theatre, Downing Street, Cambridge, CB2 3EH. Professor Susan Keech
(Rice University) will explain the richness of West Africa’s early civilization
drawing on the work of Thurstan Shaw and his early excavations at Igbo-Ukwu as
well as her own work on early urbanism in the inland Niger Delta in Mali.
Followed by a reception at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, this is
a FREE event, RSVP here.
At 6.00pm is The African Comedy Show, Hippodrome,
Golders Green, NW11 7RP. This monthly event kicks off with a South, East, West
line up. Headlined by the hilarious Chris Forest (South Africa) with
Gandoki (Nigeria), Daliso (Malawi), Prince Abdi (Somalia) Wayne (Zimbabwe) and
Njambi McGrath (Kenya). African food and drinks will be available. Tickets are £12.50, from here. For Birthday
bookings drop the organisers an email or call the ticket hotline on 07404115228
At 7.30pm Crawley
WORDFest presents Come Rhyme with Me
at Crawley Library, Southgate Avenue,
Crawley, RH10 6HG. Hosted by Dean Atta and Deanna Rodgers with poets
Sabrina Mahfouz, Hollie McNish and Paul Cree. Admission is £12.00 from here and comes with a Caribbean supper.
Saturday 10th May
At 2.00pm The Petrie
Museum presents Egypt in London:
Modernist Sculpture Walk. Starting at the Carreras ‘Black Cat’ Building, with a discussion of the popular
image of Egypt in the 1980’s, followed by a walk/ tube to Jacob Epsteins public
sculptures in Hyde Park, Westminster and The Strand.Tickets are £5.00 from here.
At 6.00pm is the 3rd Annual Women4Africa Awards
Night at The Great Hall, Hornton Street, Kensington, W8 7NX. This awards
night celebrates ordinary African women’s extraordinary achievements, with a
drinks reception, live entertainment, speakers, comedy, dance, music,
networking and a red carpet reception. Tickets start from £35.00 from here.
At 8.00pm is the Kenyan London 7’s 2014 After Party at The Oasis Banqueting Suite, 6-8 Thames
Road, Barking, IG11 0HZ. Enjoy authentic Kenyan cuisine and live Kenyan
Music with the Afrika Jambo Band. Tickets from £20.00 from here.
At 8.00pm
Afri-Kokoa presents Da- Lata at Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road,
Shoreditch, E1 6LA. This Afro-Brazilian will be celebrating 20 years in
music by performing tracks from their latest album ‘Fabiola’. Tickets are £10.00
in advance from here, £12.00 on the
door.
At 8.00pm is the Zimbabwe Achievement Awards at The Royal Garden Hotel, 2-24 Kensington
High Street, Kensington, W8 4PT. This event will start with a champagne
reception, a 3 course dinner with wine, with live entertainment alongside the
awards show, followed by an After Party. Tables start from £89.95 from here
Sunday 11th May
At 8.00pm is the Kenyan London 7’s 2014 After Party at The Oasis Banqueting Suite, 6-8 Thames
Road, Barking, IG11 0HZ. This VIP event will feature the Kenyan Rugby 7’s
team, authentic Kenyan cuisine and Music from the resident DJ’s. Tickets start
from £20.00 from here.
At 8.00pm Juwon
Ogungbe and The Life Force Band will be performing at The Vortex Jazz Club, 11 Gillett Square, Dalston, N16 8AZ. The
acclaimed musician and composer returns with an enlarged band playing his
trademark ‘Life force music’ from his existing repertoire well as new material
from Progress Ceremony and Threshold. Tickets are £12.50 from here.
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