100BMOL: Ghosts of Rwanda
Date: Saturday 12th April 2008
Time: 2pm-5.00pm
Venue: Conference Room, Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road SE1
Adm: Free entry: First come, first served
Ghosts of Rwanda (PBS Frontline documentary)
Whether you've seen or missed Hotel Rwanda this film is a must to get a comprehensive understanding of the Rwandan genocide and the links between Somalia, Rwanda, Sudan and racism at the United Nations. The film also highlights African heroes such as the Senegalese peacekeeper Captain Mbaye Diagne who saved countless lives by repeatedly driving into enemy lines. Question and Answer with the director, Greg Barker. For a full breakdown of this astonishing film visit;
frontline: ghosts of rwanda | PBS
Book launch: "Women in the Garvey Movement"
Date: Saturday 12 April 2008
Time: 5pm to 10pm
Venue: Queen Mother Moore Saturday School Hall, The Methodist Church, Nelson's Row, Clapham Common, SW4 7SR
Adm: Free
Sister Nzingha will speak about her book. Come and be inspired, come and be energised at the Book launch of her new book "Women in the Garvey Movement".
There will be Libation and drumming to the ancestors, inspiring poetry, cultural singing, dynamic panel presentations on “which way now you still enshackled Afrikans, unite or perish, not unity for unity sake but unity for great achievement” - Chancellor Williams.
On sale will be: Refreshments, Jewellery, Clothes and Cards
For further information contact Sister Nzingha on 07908 203 533, Email:
anzingha@hotmail.com, Website:
Nzingha Assatas Home Page
If we the women stay at home the revolution won’t move a single step.
AN AFRIKAN FAMILY GATHERING
Book Launch - African Yoga by Pablo Imani
Date: Saturday 12th April 2008
Time: 7-10pm
Venue: Centerprise, 136 Kingsland High Street, London E8 2NS
Admission: Free
Holistic Healing Show Food 4 Mood & Mind
Date: Sat 12 April 2008
Time: 12 noon – 7:00 pm
Venue: Wood Green Central Library, 1st Floor Gallery & Workshops, Wood Green High Road, N22
Adm: Free
100% SPA (Special Personal Attention), Mind Body & Spirt Show with herbalist, colour therapists, psychics, candle reader, exclusive hand made jewellery, free workshops on food 4 mood and mind. Organic skin cream, herbal teas, home made gluten free cakes.
Email:
collegeofbeauty@aol.com
Ashra Kwesi 2008 UK Tour
Date: Monday 14 April 2007
Time: 19:30 – 22:00
Venue: Lambeth Town Hall, Town Hall Parade, Acre Lane, Brixton, London SW2
Adm: £10
Ashra Kwesi is a dynamic presenter of African History. He is on tour with his wife Merira Kwesi, and they will be making presentation in Birmingham, Manchester, London & Bristol. Ashra Kwesi uses visuals in his lectures to give the audience a correct prospective of what he his imparting.
Contact:
kwame_pacm@yahoo.couk / 020 8801 0205
Black History Studies presents - African presence in the Moorish Empire of Spain
Date: Monday 14 April 2007
Time: 6:45PM – 9:30PM
Venue: PCS Headquarters, 160 Falcon Road, Clapham Junction, London SW11 2LN
Adm: £4
PCS in conjunction with Black History Studies presents - African presence in the Moorish Empire of Spain. This event will be presented by Robin Walker.*
This visually stunning presentation discusses the role of African people in the history and achievements of the Moorish Empire of North Africa and Spain.
The lecture highlights the dynasties, personalities, sciences and monuments of this inspiring chapter of world history. With a vast amount of important information on offer, this is one presentation that should not be missed.
*Author of the best seller ’When We Ruled’
When We Ruled
Contact:
info@blackhistorystudies.com / 07951 234233
Black History Studies
Celebrating 60th Anniversary of Windrush
Date: 17th April 2008
Time: 4.45pm-6.00pm
Venue: Walsall Central Library, Lichfield Street
It is the 60th anniversary this year of the first African Caribbean immigrants who arrived in Britain aboard the SS Empire Windrush, full of hopes, dreams and the promise of new lives.
Walsall Libraries is Celebrating 60th Anniversary of Windrush during the National Year of Reading (NYR) 2008. Guest author, Victor Richards, will be talking about and performing his new poetry trilogy book, “Streets Paved with Gold”.
Question and answer sessions , Poetry, music/readings, book signings and more!
Contact: Sonia 01922 653137
Maarifa Booksigning Series: Paul Ifayomi Grant
Date: Thursday 17th April 2008
Time: 7pm - 9pm
Venue: Maarifa Books, 6 Bradbury St, Dalston, London, N16 8JN
Maarifa books presents its book signing Series supporting African Writers in Britain. This event will feature Paul Ifayomi Grant author of Saving Our Sons, Blue Skies for Afrikans, [N word] Negroes Black People & Africans, Why Willie Lynch Must Die & Sankofa The Wiseman and His Amazing Friends.
Strictly an African Family Occasion
Contact: 0207 503 0300
Ashra Kwesi 2008 UK Tour
Date: Thursday 17 April 2007
Time: 19:30 – 22:00
Venue: African Caribbean Cultural Centre, Clarendon Road, Hornsey, London N8
Adm: £10
Ashra Kwesi is a dynamic presenter of African History. He is on tour with his wife Merira Kwesi, and they will be making presentation in Birmingham, Manchester, London & Bristol. Ashra Kwesi uses visuals in his lectures to give the audience a correct prospective of what he his imparting.
Contact:
kwame_pacm@yahoo.couk / 020 8801 0205
Goodbye Uncle Tom (18 certificate)
Date: Saturday 19 April 2008
Time: 1pm-5.30pm
Venue: BFI Southbank (near Royal Festival Hall), Belvedere Road SE1
Admission: £5.00 /Box office 0207 928 3232
When films are powerful and challenge the status quo they are often banned or suppressed. It is not an accident that positive black films are put on TV at 11.20pm or that African cinema releases are never adequately promoted.
Most films on slavery skim over the realities of what europeans did to force Africans to work for nothing all day long. This film does not. It is so unflinching in its portrayal of european barbarity during slavery that it has effectively been withheld from audiences for 35 years for fear of the reaction it would get.
Made in the aftermath of the US civil rights movement the film puts the 1970's fight for equality into context by using a documentary style to see exactly what life would have been like for enslaved Africans on the plantations of the USA and the legacies of such behaviour on present day society.
The film was condemned as racist, ridiculous and unrealistic when it was released but much of the dialogue and events were based on historical letters and documents that are now readily available via the internet or in print.
This film has been screened in a British mainstream cinema only once before and sold out. It will be followed by discussion with historians, academics and community activists. This landmark event is brought to you in collaboration with:
100 Black Men
Pan Afrikan Society LSBU
Images of Black Women Film Festival
Ligali
Black Nine Films
Black Filmmakers Magazine
Website:
BFI | Home
Book Launch - a collection of Short stories by Kwame Mcpherson
Date: 23 April 2008
Time: 7-10pm
Venue: Centerprise, 136 Kingsland High Street, London E8 2NS
Admission: Free
Kwame Mcpherson’s second book, Deep Roots, Strong Tree (2007), is a sure hit, it’s a mixture of short stories based on life lessons and experiences spanning the Caribbean, North America and Europe.
Ancient Future & Muatta Books presents: Azzariah Bey
Date: April 25th - 26th 2008
Time: 7 -10
Venue: 160 Page Green Terrace, High Road Seven Sisters, London N15 4NU
Adm: £10 (£8 concessions)
Ghost Wars: The History of Moorish Saltans & The Illuminati 2012
Sex Magick 3
Mind Control & Deprogramming Techniques
Film: Abolition in Brazil plus Q and A with Charlie Phillips
Date: Saturday 26 April 2008
Time: 2-5.15pm
Venue: Museum in Docklands, West India Quay (Docklands Light Railway)
Adm: Free entry: first come, first served
Brazil has the highest black population after Nigeria. Many people there still speak Yoruba or Angolan dialects and practice traditional African forms of worship. Although the British like to say they abolished the slave trade in 1807 they forget to mention they were supplying kidnapped Africans wholesale to the Portuguese who did not abolish slavery until 1888.
This multi award winning film by Zozimo Bulbul shows where and how African people fought for their freedom using art, culture, dance, religion, carnival and armed resistance.
Charlie Phillips is a renowned photographer/film maker who has lived and
worked in Brazil, Italy, Sweden and Germany. He will be sharing his experience of 50 years of fighting racism and his inside knowledge on the African-Brazilian experience.
Museum in Docklands - Home