by Guest Blogger | Oct 8, 2016 | arts & culture
A United Kingdom is a fantastic film. It highlights not only the power of love but more importantly the politics of apartheid. Great Britain was a lead player in Botswana’s apartheid history. The film focuses on the relationship between the main characters:...
by roz | Oct 2, 2016 | arts & culture
In America, Britain and Europe, popularism has taken hold with a breed of establishment politician who says they are anti-establishment. They are also anti-integration and anti-women. That is racism and sexism. Lost Voices, the poem, below, is about racism, sexism,...
by roz | Jul 10, 2016 | arts & culture
The Beyhive, the fans of Beyoncé, say Lemonade is ‘Beyoncé’s evolution as an intersectional feminist and her identifying with blackness and Civil Rights. So Bey is ‘woke’. She has come a long way from saying ‘It is not about colour or race.’ Or has she? I say...
by roz | Jul 10, 2016 | arts & culture
Beyoncé is on the European leg of her Formation tour, named after Lemonade’s first released single. Billboard say ‘Beyoncé’s “Lemonade” is a Revolutionary Work of Black Feminism. Her fans say it’s ‘Beyoncé’s evolution as an intersectional...
by roz | Jun 14, 2016 | arts & culture
Russian playwright Nikolai Erdman wrote the satire, The Suicide in 1928 and Suhayla El-Bushra’s adaptation, playing at the National Theatre, has brought it bang up to date. The play is set in multi-cultural London around Clement Attlee House under the current...
by roz | Jun 9, 2016 | arts & culture
One day I was at the National Theatre watching Lorraine Hansberry’s epic masterpiece ‘Les Blancs’. A disturbing and haunting story about the end of the colonial era in an imaginary African country. It was a compelling cast, on a big stage, which brought sight and...