The Counterfeiters:

In Nazi-era Germany, Salomon "Sally" Sorowitsch (Karl Markovics) is a master counterfeiter who is arrested and thrown into a concentration camp. Once his captors notice his unique skills, he's soon transported to better living conditions and asked to become a part of Operation Berhard, an extensive scheme by the Nazis to produce fake foreign currency. At first taking on the job with zeal, Sally has a crisis of conscience when his friend Adolf Burger (August Diehl) suggests that they try to undermine the German war effort rather than support it.

Persepolis

A young woman's life in Iran after the ‘78 revolution, via an animation based on the graphic novel by Marjane Satrapi. In French featuring the voices of Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve and Danielle Darrieux. Satrapi co-directed. “Among the most original and moving films at Cannes this year, marked by a highly expressive and varied drawing style and the sense of a plucky young woman navigating the turbulent currents of politics, family and adolescence.” (L.A. Weekly)

The Great Debaters

Inspired by a true story, "The Great Debaters" chronicles the journey of Professor Melvin Tolson, a brilliant but volatile debate team coach who uses the power of words to shape a group of underdog students from a small African American college in the deep south into a historically elite debate team. A controversial figure, Professor Tolson challenged the social mores of the time and was under constant fire for his unconventional and ferocious teaching methods as well as his radical political views.

The Kite Runner

Based one on of the most acclaimed novels in recent memory, THE KITE RUNNER is a profoundly emotional tale of friendship, family, devastating mistakes and redeeming love. In a divided country on the verge of war, two childhood friends, Amir and Hassan, are about to be torn apart forever. It's a glorious afternoon in Kabul and the skies are bursting with the exhilarating joy of a kite-fighting tournament. But in the aftermath of the day's victory, one boy's fearful act of betrayal will mark their lives forever and set in motion an epic quest for redemption. Now, after 20 years of living in America, Amir returns to a perilous Afghanistan under the Taliban's iron-fisted rule to face the secrets that still haunt him and take one last daring chance to set things right..

Lust, Caution

This is a new film from Ang Lee, the Academy Award-winning director of Brokeback Mountain and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. A startling erotic espionage thriller about the fate of an ordinary womans heart, it is based on the short story by revered Chinese author Eileen Chang, and stars Asian cinema icon Tony Leung opposite screen newcomer Tang Wei.

Perfume

Based on Patrick Suskind's novel about a serial killer who hunts victims with his superhuman sense of smell, Perfume: Story of a Murderer is a florid, grisly portrayal of this historical drama set in 18th century France. Jean-Baptiste Grunuis (Ben Whishaw) is born under his mother's table at the fish market, onto a pile of muddy fish guts, establishing from the beginning his repulsion for putrid scents.

An Inconvenient Truth
Director Davis Guggenheim eloquently weaves the science of global warming with Al Gore's personal history and lifelong commitment to reversing the effects of global climate change in the most talked-about documentary of the year. An audience and critical favorite, An Inconvenient Truth makes the compelling case that global warming is real, man-made, and its effects will be cataclysmic if we don’t act now. Gore presents a wide array of facts and information in a thoughtful and compelling way: often humorous, frequently emotional, always fascinating. In the end, An Inconvenient Truth accomplishes what all great films should: it leaves the viewer shaken, involved and inspired.

The Contender
When the truth becomes a weapon, power comes at a stunning price. Gary Oldman, Joan Allen, Jeff Bridges and Christian Slater deliver electrifying performances in this controversial, suspenseful and critically-acclaimed thriller that Ebert & Roeper and the Movies call "exciting and unusually intelligent, two very enthusiastic thumbs up!" Sometimes you can assassinate a leader without firing a shot.

Fela Sowande
Felá Sówándé is considered as the father of modern Nigerian Art Music and is perhaps the most internationally known African composer of works in the European 'classical' idiom. He was born in Lagos and son of a priest and pioneer of Nigerian church music. The influence of his father and Dr T.K. Ekundayo Phillips (composer, organist and choirmaster) was an important factor in his early years. At that time, he was a chorister and was introduced to new Yorùbá works being introduced into the churches. During that period, he studied organ under Phillips; this included works by Bach and European classical masters. At that time, he was also a bandleader, playing jazz and popular - 'highlife’ music. All of these had considerable influence on his work.

Match Point
Match Point: Directed by Woody Allen: Dirctor of Photography: Remi Adefarasin

Teegrove
Fondly called “teegroove”, the Nigerian-born drummer, Tosin Aribisala, discovered his musical talent at an early age. During his formative years in Lagos, Nigeria, he listened to a lot of music genres such as jazz, afrobeat, fuji, apala, reggae, calypso, high-life, funk, juju, rock, Cuban and Brazilian music. Tosin did not just listen to different musical styles, but he also tried to imitate whatever the drummer was playing in order for him to hone his skills as a drummer. He also took some classes in drum rudiments and music theory. But for the most part, teegroove is a self-taught drummer.

Whiteman by Tony D'Souza
Whiteman is an extraordinary debut novel about a maverick American relief worker deep in the West African bush. When his funding is cut off, Jack Diaz refuses to leave his post, a Muslim village in the Ivory Coast where Christians and Muslims are squaring off for war. Against a backdrop of bloody conflict and vibrant African life, Jack and his village guardian, Mamadou, learn that hate knows no color and that true heroism waits for us where we least expect it.

Gifts from Eykis : A Story of Self-Discovery
How would an intelligent visitor from another planet react to life on Earth? Would we welcome that visitor's presence and views? Are we ready for such an open exchange? Weaving together science fiction, spirituality, and philosophy with wisdom, humor, and plain common sense, Wayne Dyer tells the story of two peaceful beings from different worlds who work together to enhance the well-being of all.The gifts that Eykis brings to the people of Earth help them see themselves in a new light, and compel them to rethink their negative actions. Her insightful offerings will move you to new emotions, new behaviors, and a new understanding of humankind's limitless possibilities.

Strength in the Storm
The daily pressure of a busy lifestyle, an unexpected crisis, or ongoing anxiety about the state of the world – we can face any of life’s challenges by learning to draw on the deep resources within us.

Labalaba Rediffusion Theatre

Naguib Mahfouz - The Son of Two Civilizations
The Arabic Renaissance and the Rise of the Egyptian Novel

For Women and the Nation: Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti of Nigeria
'This is the first historical narrative about the life and times of late Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti. The authors are qualified based on their extensive research about women and nationalist movement in Nigeria. They lucidly show the local beginning of Funmilayo, and her international connections. The radicalization of Funmilayo is explained by British ineptitude and unreceptive posture towards nationalist issues, devolution, and the the transfer of power. To them, Funmilayo was not only a dominant figure during the period, she was a fomidable player in postcolonial politics as well. Whether or not Funmilayo was a communist, a fellow traveler, or someone that exploited ideology to better her aspiration and that of the women folks is left to readers to judge. Well written, readeable and concise; this is a must for all interested in women, nationalist politics in Nigeria, and the emergent gender dominated civil society in colonial and postcolonial Nigeria'.--Dr. Tijani

Funmi and the Courtyard: Whispers Magazine

Relax your eyes with our luxury bridal collection as our brides and grooms say "I do"

Read about Fantasy car of the month and take it on a spin... This issue is loaded.

"Whispers Magazine" is filled with great photography, brilliant colors, and miles of vibrant lifestyle.

PRONACO
PRONACO has been set up to evolve national consensus by initiating and convoking an all-inclusive and people-driven participatory sovereign national conference which will ultimately produce a legitimate constitution for Nigeria .

Obafemi Awolowo University

Traditional medicine should be encouraged says Prof. Tony Elujoba of the Faculty of Pharmacy

Wines of Africa
Wines of Africa is a specialty retailer of boutique and premium wines of South Africa.

My Architect: A Son's Journey
The secret life of architectural genius Louis Kahn

Morenike Fadayomi: Soprano
Born in London (Fullham), raised in England (London), Africa (Lagos) and Switzerland (Glarus). Dance-Education at the Colombo Dance Factory in Ballet, Jazz, Modern, Acting and Musicals. Classical Voice-Coaching by Prof. U. Preier-Raunacher (Vienna) since 1987: From July 1993 to 1996 Soloist at the Stadttheater Basel (Switzerland) singing: Bizet, Carmen (MICHAELA) / Boito, Mefistofele (ELENA) / Henze, Boulevard Solitude (MANON) / Lehar, Lustige Witwe (HANNA GLAWARI) / Mozart, Zauberflöte (1. DAME) / Puccini, La Boheme (MIMI / MUSETTA) / Rossini, Viaggo a Reims (CONT. FOLLEVILLE).

Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy
Possessing both a layperson's unfettered curiosity and a lawyer's logical mind, Gordon-Reed writes with an irresistible style and compassion about Thomas Jefferson's sexual involvement with his slave Sally Hemings. Her fascinating and convincing argument: not that the alleged 38-year liaison necessarily took place but rather that the evidence for its taking place has been denied a fair hearing.

Call Me By My Rightful Name: By Isidore Okpewho
A young African American (Otis Hampton) falls into periodic spasms and chants a text nobody understands. His troubled family seeks help. The text, recorded by a psychiatrist and deciphered by linguists, is found to be a corrupted family chant from the Yoruba of Nigeria. The doctor advises a trip to that ethnic region. The spiritual voices that have been summoning Otis finally bring him, after some alarming experiences in the journey from America through the Nigerian hinterland, to the very spot where his ancestor was enslaved over a century before....

Image Quilt Productions
Image Quilt was founded in 2001 by filmmaker, Omonike Akinyemi. The company seeks to make film and theater a part of the visual tapestry of all communities. Image Quilt produces films and videos throughout the United States, Africa, and Europe. Our projects flow through three divisions: Production, Exhibition, and Outreach. In 2005, we will also be screening independent films in a dynamic series in our New York Art House Cinemas. Our Outreach program focuses on community based workshops in film production and screenwriting through the non-profit organization, 16 Cowries. To date, Image Quilt has produced three films including, “Nelly’s Bodega”, a 1 hour drama recently awarded "Best International Film" at the 2004 Abuja Film Festival and the “Best Drama” Award at the Women of Color Film Festival 2004. “Nelly’s Bodega” has aired on several PBS stations including WNET/Channel 13, KBDI Colorado, Maryland Public Television, and KTEH, San Jose. Image Quilt’s 5 minute experimental drama, “Medusa Talks”, also screened at several film festivals including Chicago’s Black Harvest 1997, and Fespaco 1997), and is presented regularly in media showcases such as 911 Media in Washington, DC. “Breathing Cuba”, a 14 minute documentary on Afro-Cuban music and dance, is a promotional video made for an organization based in Oakland, California. The film is used regularly in their promotion of music based programs and tourist packages to Cuba and Haiti Image Quilt Productions continues to produce professional quality corporate promotional videos, PSA’s, and family portraits. Our clients have included the organizations HBO Human Resources, Caribbean Music & Dance Programs, and small to medium size businesses.

Camara Laye
Guinean novelist, short story writer, and essayist, who first gained fame in the 1950s with his novels L'Enfant noir (1953, The African Child), a poetic re-creation of the author's childhood days, and Le Regard du roi (1954, The Radiance of the King). The latter work with its theme, a frustrating quest for an unattainable authority, has been compared to Franz Kafka's novel The Castle (1926). Laye's third novel, Dramouss (1966), was banned in Guinea.

Margaret Warner talks with author Vernon Jordan about his new book: Vernon Can Read! A Memoir.
MARGARET WARNER: The book is Vernon Can Read: A Memoir. The author is Vernon Jordan. Today he's a powerful figure in the legal, financial, and political circles of Washington and New York, perhaps best known by the public as the friend and golfing partner of former President Bill Clinton, but this book is the story of his boyhood in the segregated South of the '40s and '50s and his career in the civil rights movement.

Flora Nwapa
Florence Nwanzuruahu Nkiru Nwapa was born January 18, 1931 in Oguta, East Central State, Nigeria. She obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from University College, Ibadan in 1957, and a Diploma in Education from University of Edinburgh the following year. Upon her return to Nigeria, she joined the Ministry of Education in Calabar as an Education Officer until 1959.

The Art of Living
The Art of Living: Bed Linens: Bellino Fine Linens

bell hooks
Interviewed by Gary Olson

Ethiopian Passages: Dialogues in the Diaspora
Ethiopian Passages brings together the artworks of 10 contemporary artists working within the diaspora. Their creative approaches, chosen media, artistic narratives and personal histories are eclectic, but they all share an attachment to Ethiopia.

Glen Gould
On September 10, Sony Classical and Legacy will proudly release Glenn Gould—A State Of Wonder in celebration of the 70th anniversary of his birth. A deluxe 3-CD set this collection features Gould's legendary 1955 Goldberg Variations recording coupled for the first time with a remastered version of his 1981 recording of the same work. The remastering of the '81 Goldbergs was done using the original analogue tapes for unprecedented, pristine sound. The third disc features an intimate discussion with journalist Tim Page and rare studio outtakes from Gould's 1955 recording session.

The Poetics of Line: Seven Artists of Nsukka Group
The practice of painting uli on bodies and walls largely ended around 1970, yet by that time some contemporary Igbo artists had become attracted to its appealing designs and approach to compositional style. Although traditional uli is infrequently created today, it has been vigorously revived by Nsukka artists, especially those involved with the art program of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.

Jean-Michel Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat was born on December 22, 1960 in Brooklyn, New York. His father, Gerard Basquiat was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and his mother, Matilde was born in Brooklyn of Puerto Rican parents. Early on, Basquiat displayed a proficiency in art which was encouraged by his mother.

The Life of Jean-Michel Basquiat

Buchi Emecheta
Buchi Emecheta writes about the experience of African women. Her work includes novels, poetry, plays for television, essays and books for children.

Dirty Pretty Things
The luminous Audrey Tautou (Amelie) stars in Dirty Pretty Things, a riveting thriller about an illegal immigrant in London named Okwe (Chiwetal Ejiofor, Amistad ), a doctor in his homeland who now works days as a taxi driver and nights as a hotel desk clerk. When a hooker tells him there's a mess in one of the hotel's bathrooms, Okwe finds a human heart in the toilet. He soon discovers a snare of desperation, poverty, and black-market body organs--and finds that his only friend, a Turkish hotel maid (Tautou), may be the next to be caught. Dirty Pretty Things, skillfully directed by Stephen Frears (High Fidelity, Dangerous Liaisons, My Beautiful Laundrette ), fuses taut suspense with an unsettling portrait of life among the British underclass of immigrant service workers. Thanks to the excellent cast and script, the movie makes its social points subtly, while the gripping story coils itself around you. --Bret Fetzer

The Hurston Wright Foundation
To develop, nurture and sustain the world community of writers of African descent. Our programs and services preserve the legacy and ensure the future of Black writing.

Chronology of Richard Wright's Life

Fela Anikulapo Kuti Interviewed by Hewan Lowe
Fela Anikulapo-Kuti was interviewed by Lister Hewan-Lowe on Saturday, June 21 [1986].

A Sapped Democracy by Mojubaolu Olufunke Okome
This book is a study of the interaction between liberal economic and political reforms in Nigeria between 1983 and 1993. The work investigates the causes and outcome of the Nigerian state's decision to undertake a simultaneous, dual transition. It considers the role of the state, multilateral organizations and domestic politics as potential causes of policy and the dynamic interaction between economic and political processes during the transition as determinants of the outcome.

Amina Mama: Interviewed by Elaine Salo

Elaine: Tell us about your personal journey into feminism and the point in your life when you consciously identified as an African feminist?

Chief Gani Fawehinmi: Human Rights Lawyer and Campaigner

Chief Gani Fawehinmi: The Man Who Worries Obasanjo.

Folasayo Dele-Ogunrinde
A multi-talented and self-taught artist, folasayo has the ability to express her creativity in several genres like the visual arts, drama, writing, and in almost any creative endeavor. She is the author of Conversations With The Soul At 3:00am, a collection of love poems and art photography ( Home of African Concepts, 2000) and the British Council/ANA award winning play The Woman with a Past (Heinemann books, 1989).

Adetoro Makinde: Backdoor Films
The Team: Maurice Dwyer, Adetoro Makinde, and Abdul Stone Jackson

The Africana Q&A with Winnie Mandela
"As long as my people are dying of AIDS, and suffering from racism, and as long as South Africa still remains a blistering inferno of racial history, I will remain what I am." By: Tanu T. Henry: Staff Writer for Africana.com

Oliver Mbamara: Expressions of Soul

Oliver Mbamara: Author, Poet, Playwright, Actor, Lawyer

Angelique Kidjo
Angélique Kidjo is not only one of the spunkiest, most electrifying performers in the pop world today, but she's also one of its most forward and creative thinkers, an artist whose mission has been to explore the relationships of diverse musical cultures. While she has steeped her music in the tribal and pop rhythms of her West African heritage, the Benin-born, Paris/Brooklyn-based Kidjo has crossed musical boundaries by blending a variety of styles, including funk, salsa, jazz, rumba, souk and makossa.

Marion Ayonote Footwear
A top-flight shoe designer with her own label simply called Marion Ayonote.

Celebrating Ngugi, Remembering Sobukwe
The Fourth Steve Biko Annual Lecture given by Ngũgĩwa Thiong’o, Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature, and Director International Center for Writing and Translation, University of California Irvine, at Cape Town University, Cape Town, South Africa, 12 th September 2003

Amos Tutuola

Amos Tutuola, 1920-1997 Collection, 1940-1997 at Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas, Austin.

Angela Davis
Frontline: the two nations of black America.

Prof. Wole Soyinka: Nobel Prize in Literature 1986
"It was inevitable that the Nordic world and the African, especially that part of it which constitutes the Yoruba world - should meet at the crossroads of Sweden. That I am the agent of such a symbolic encounter is due very simply to that my creative Muse is Ogun, the god of creativity and destruction, of the lyric and metallurgy." WS

Naguib Mahfouz: Nobel Prize in Literature 1988
"You may be wondering: This man coming from the third world, how did he find the peace of mind to write stories? You are perfectly right. I come from a world labouring under the burden of debts whose paying back exposes it to starvation or very close to it. Some of its people perish in Asia from floods, others do so in Africa from famine. In South Africa millions have been undone with rejection and with deprivation of all human rights in the age of human rights, as though they were not counted among humans. In the West Bank and Gaza there are people who are lost in spite of the fact that they are living on their own land; land of their fathers, grandfathers and great grandfathers." NM

Nadine Gordimer: Nobel Prize in Literature 1991
"When I began to write as a very young person in a rigidly racist and inhibited colonial society, I felt, as many others did, that I existed marginally on the edge of the world of ideas, of imagination and beauty. These, taking shape in poetry and fiction, drama, painting and sculpture, were exclusive to that distant realm known as 'overseas'. It was the dream of my contemporaries, white and black, to venture there as the only way to enter the world of artists. It took the realization that the colour bar - I use that old, concrete image of racism - was like the gate of the law in Kafka's parable, which was closed to the supplicant throughout his life because he didn't understand that only he could open it."NG

J.M. Coetzee: Nobel Prize in Literature 2003
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2003 is awarded to the South African writer John Maxwell Coetzee

J.M. Coetzee: Elizabeth Costello
Elizabeth Costello is a distinguished and aging Australian novelist whose life is revealed through an ingenious series of eight formal addresses. From an award-acceptance speech at a New England liberal arts college to a lecture on evil in Amsterdam and a sexually charged reading by the poet Robert Duncan, Coetzee draws the reader inexorably toward its astonishing conclusion.

Prof. Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Kenyan teacher, novelist, essayist, and playwright, whose works function as an important link between the pioneers of African writing and the younger generation of postcolonial writers. After imprisonment in 1978, Ngugi abandoned using English as the primary language of his work in favor of Gikuyu, his native tongue. The transition from colonialism to postcoloniality and the crisis of modernity has been a central issues in a great deal of Ngugi's writings.

Ngugi wa Thiong'o: Link to Amazon.com
Books by Prof. Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Chris Ofili: Holy Virgin Mary with Elephant Dung
"As a black Briton of Nigerian descent, that first visit to Africa encouraged him to reconsider his own identity and to develop a highly personal aesthetic through which he examines issues of black culture, imagery and sexual stereotyping". BBC News, 1998

Tunde Kelani
New York Africa Film Festival Focus on Kelani Dateline April 2004, renowned cinematographer, Tunde Kelani, by extension, Nigeria will be the cynosure of eyes at the African Film Festival in New York. A press briefing was addressed where ITPAN and other major stakeholders announced their support to ensure a successful outing at the festival. Tunde Okoli reports

Haruna Ishola
Born in the town of Ijebu-igbo, Haruna Ishola began recording apala numbers in about 1955, and soon became the most popular artist in the genre, and one of the most respected praise singers in Nigeria raising apala from its traditional roots to the status of popular music in Nigeria. Details about Haruna and Apala: Links or Amazon.com:Music

Prof. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Interview with Bruce Cole
Harvard professor and cultural critic Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is this year’s Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities. He spoke recently with NEH Chairman Bruce Cole about the growth of African American studies in this country.

Ama Ata Aidoo
Aidoo studied literature at the University of Ghana and became a university lecturer. Whilst there she produced her first play in 1964. In January 1982 she was appointed Minister of Education. As Minister, Aidoo wanted to make education in Ghana freely accessible to all - but after 18 months when she realised that she couldn't achieve her aims she resigned.

ABIKU BY DEBO KOTUN
A Novel of Heart-Stopping Suspense. About the Author: Debo Kotun was born in Lagos, Nigeria. He studied at Johns Hopkins University, Yale, the New School for Social Research, and the Masters of Professional Writing Program of the University of Southern California.

SEAL: TWO SHOWS
On Sale Sunday, October 12 at 11:00 AM Seal-Two Shows! The Wiltern Los Angeles, CA Tuesday, November 18 at 8:00 PM Wednesday, November 19 at 8:00 PM On Sale Sunday, October 12 at 11:00 AM

Lagbaja
"With the passage of Fela comes Lagbaja as historian in a sort of magical realism creating a dialogue on African culture with the Abami Eda himself, a feat made possible through the proficient use of modern technology. Lagbaja is also a patriot as he opened this CD with a much-needed message of unity and peaceful co-existence between the many nationalities that make up modern-day Nigeria. This album is truly an African original, but it also ranks among jazz greats of yesteryears like Thelonious Monk, Dexter Gordon and John Coltrane. This CD is a must-have without which no musical selection is complete." Adewale Adewumi.

Loot: And Other Stories
"Since Gordimer won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991, her great novels, such as The House Gun (1998) and The Pickup (2001), have continued to open up the contemporary scene--in her native South Africa and elsewhere--with passionate insight and astonishing storytelling." Hazel Rochman

Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
Newly discovered sites in East and South Africa raise the possibility that sub-Saharan Africa may also be the part of the world in which distinctively modern forms of behaviour first appeared.

Ben Okri: And The Road Goes On Forever
"I don't think I can make people understand what my writing is about," he sighs into the tape recorder, finally getting to the matter at hand -- his work. "That really belongs to time and the individual." Ben Okri.

SEAL
Love, Light, Peace, Quiet

Nelson Mandela
This is a most revealing and astute analysis of Mandela, offering fresh insights on many aspects of his life, character and leadership.

Kwashie Akonai
Established in 2001, the CSL at Obafemi Awolowo University, in Nigeria  is an attempt to return to the days of old when Nigerian researchers had state-of-the-art equipment to work with. The WebTeam recently had a chat with Professor Ako-nai, the director of the laboratory. Excerpts:

Sade
Sade, a Smooth Operator, Sings of No Ordinary Love, and Is That a Crime? By Daniel Garrett

Kunle Ajibade: Jailed for Life
To buy the book "Jailed for Life" from Michigan State University Press

Yo-Yo Ma: Obrigado Brazil
Ma returns to the sounds and rhythms of Latin America with his latest Sony Classical recording Obrigado Brazil. Obrigado Brazil takes Yo-Yo to the heart of Brazilian music, from samba & bossa nova to classical. Ma collaborates with stars of Brazilian, Latin American Music including Egberto Gismonti, Paquito D'Rivera, Cyro Baptista, Oscar Castro-Neves, Sergio & Odair Assad and more

A FIRESIDE CHAT WITH YO-YO MA
FRED JUNG: Your new release, Brazil, documents your interest in the music inherent to that country. YO-YO MA: With almost anything, there are probably a lot of beginnings. The interest from the broadest point of view, I remember always being interested in Brazilian music from the time when I had a little transistor radio and would kind of listen at night before falling asleep.

Oswald Boateng
"My view on what you should and shouldn’t wear is quite varied. You can get away with a bright coloured shirt and still look formal, provided the tie and the shirt work together and the shirt has a double cuff'.BBC

Voices from Within
CafeAfricana's Choice: Voices from Within by Dr. Olusegun Fayemi

Olusegun Fayemi
Voices from Within is a book of duotone photographs of children from Africa south of the Sahara. It celebrates the lives of ordinary children and their everyday life: how they are nurtured and reared, the games they play, their adolescence and growing up years, their education and their role within their families and immediate environment.

West Africa Review: 2003 Interview with Niyi Osundare
Interviewer: N. F. Ogoanah

Chinua Achebe

Professor Oyeronke Oyewumi

Professor Oyeronke Oyewumi graduated from University of California, Berkeley with a Ph.D. in Sociology. She was awarded a UC President's Research Fellowship in the Humanities for the 1995/96 academic year, and in the 1992/93 academic year, she was a Rockefeller humanist-in-residence at the Center for Advanced Feminist Studies, University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.

Invention of Women-Oyeronke Oyewumi

Toyin Adewale

Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti
Biography: For Women and the Nation: Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti of Nigeria. By Cheryl Johnson Odim and Nina Emma Mba

Amos Tutuola-The Palm Wine Drinkard
Sergio Ribeiro Porto from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 'Since 1980, when I was only 16, I have not read a book as fantastic as this one. Its pages are so dense you may even spend hours through one single paragraph in order to feel all images created by the author and taste all its delicate and, at the same time, intricate constructions. A book I will never forget'.

Helon Habila
What kind of debt do you have to Nigerian writers?Chinua Achebe and Ben Okri? So much. So much. They were the pioneers, and they showed us that we could do it. They made the way for us, for the younger generation to follow. But it doesn't necessarily mean that we have to continue writing in the same tradition that they wrote in.

Kathleen Battle
Classic Kathleen Battle-brings together the best of her recent recordings for the label, embracing a repertoire that includes opera, Baroque and sacred music, jazz, and spirituals

Conversations with Wole Soyinka
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1986

Ken Saro-Wiwa
The situation between the Ogoni and the Nigerian government grew increasingly tense. Ken was arrested a number of times in 1993 and 1994. In May 1994, Ken and eight others were arrested and charged with the murder of four pro-government Ogoni chiefs. They were held for over ten months before they were sentenced to execution. Ken Saro-Wiwa was executed in November 10, 1995.

Toni Morrison
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1993

Wonders of the African World
Join Henry Louis Gates, Jr. as he takes you on a journey to discover a wealth of African history and culture in Wonders of the African World.

Kofi Annan
Kofi Annan of Ghana is the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations. The first Secretary-General to be elected from the ranks of United Nations staff, he began his first term on 1 January 1997.

Nadine Gordimer
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1991

African Art

Music and Dance of Africa

Amina Mama
Elaine Salo speaks to Professor Amina Mama, one of Africa's leading contemporary feminist activist scholars whose critical contribution to African feminism is drawn from her work across the academic-activist divide.

Buchi Emecheta

Niyi Osundare

Cornel West

Ben Okri

Christopher Okigbo

Phillip Emeagwali

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Marian Wright Edelman
" A nation that does not stand up for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand strong in the twenty-first century."

NigeriaWorld

Ade Bakare Couture
The Ade Bakare label, which is couture influenced, is a rich blend of creativity and modernity. The collection is shown twice yearly and sells to outlets in England and abroad.

Association of African Women Scholars
Promoting Excellence in Scholarship, Networking, and Activism

Fashion
Kosibah Creations: Yemi Osunkoya

Travel-Virgin Atlantic

Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town
Paul Theroux: Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town

Babalola Art Works
The themes of my works center on the cultural practices and the present stage in development of Nigeria. The cultural aspects reflect my upbringing in a typical rural settlement. These include themes such as the homecomings depicting workers (farmers, market women etc) going home after a hard day's job, ladies and children fetching water from streams and so on.

Love: A New Novel by Toni Morrison
At the center of this haunting, slender eighth novel by Nobel winner Morrison is the late Bill Cosey-entrepreneur, patriarch, revered owner of the glorious Cosey Hotel and Resort (once "the best and best-known vacation spot for colored folk on the East Coast") and captivating ladies' man. When the novel opens, the resort has long been closed, and Cosey's mansion shelters only two feuding women, his widow, Heed, and his granddaughter, Christine.

Emerging Lesbian Voice in Nigerian Literature
None of the works of previous feminist literature in Nigeria address sexuality or sexual independence as a form of empowerment. And the possibility of looking at sexuality as a form of empowerment may be nonexistent, since even terms like Feminism have been held in much suspicion.

African Events
AfricanEvents.com is a subsidiary of the Expressions of soul Int'l Group of websites, specializing in the presentation and promotion of African theater, plays, cultural events, African fashion, pictures, and traditions around the globe.

Poems of Soul

African Theater USA
AfricanTheaterUSA.com is a subsidiary of the Expressions of soul Int'l Group of websites, specializing in the presentation and promotion of African theater, plays, cultural events, African fashion, pictures, and traditions around the globe.

Radio Palm wine
RadioPalmwine is a public community radio program, arts and cultural web site, an international musical archive for Nigerians and Africans in the Diaspora playing Afro-beat, Gospel, Highlife and Makossa music.

Kashmiri Shawls
Pashmina is unmistakable for its softness. Pashmina yarn is spun from hair of Ibex found at 14,000 ft above sea level. It is on Pashmina shawls that Kashmir's most exquisite embroidery is worked, sometimes the entire surface, earning the name of "Jamawar" the shawls.

Prof. Niyi Afolabi
Books by Prof. Niyi Afolabi

What to see in Nigeria

Professor West and Michelal Lerner
Michael Lerner: What were the lessons from September 11 that we should have learned, but haven't? Cornel West: We have to recognize that America must come to terms with the painful truth—the world is not only a dangerous place, and peace delicate and fleeting, but we are interdependent. We have to acknowledge that what we do affects everyone, that we are part of one interlinked garment of destiny. America as a country began as a European slave society settling on an indigenous people's land, then it broke from the English empire, and now we are the greatest empire since the Roman Empire. We are a settler society vis-à-vis indigenous power, a colony that developed a revolutionary tradition in response to the imperial power of England, and now we are the imperial power of the early twenty-first century.

American Masters: PBS
Although he spent a great deal of his life abroad, James Baldwin always remained a quintessentially American writer. Whether he was working in Paris or Istanbul, he never ceased to reflect on his experience as a black man in white America. In numerous essays, novels, plays, and public speeches, the eloquent voice of James Baldwin spoke of the pain and struggle of black Americans and the saving power of brotherhood.

Giovanni's Room
Baldwin's 1956 novel, his second, was daring for its time, depicting a young man deep into Paris's second expatriate movement following World War II as he grapples with his sexual identity.

African Film Festival New York
Dialogues with the Directors

African History From The Dawn Of The Time
The Story of Africa tells the history of the continent from an African perspective. Africa's top historians take a fresh look at the events and characters that have shaped the continent from the origins of humankind to the end of South African apartheid. See the rise and fall of empires and kingdoms, experience the power of religion, the injustices of slavery, and chart the expansion of trade between Africa and other continents. Hear what it was like to live under colonialism, follow the struggle against it, and celebrate the achievement of independence.

PHENIG, Inc

Public Health and Education in Nigeria Incorporated:

Centre for Early Childhood Development
The Centre for Early Childhood Development in South African provides training, support and advice in the field of early childhood development by offering courses and programmes aimed at enhancing individual and organisational capacity; by developing and disseminating resources; and by carrying out research specifically related to the African context.

The Association of Moremi Women
The Association of Moremi Women is a non-profit organization, founded to foster greater understanding and unity among Yoruba women and families. We are committed to promoting our cultural heritage in our host community and to empower our women in all areas of life. This group's goal is to instill our cultural heritage on our children.

African Writers Series

Nigerian Women Writers-Partial List

African Women's Media Center

African Literature

Books

African Connection Newspaper

Music

Frontline

Skin Care

African Books Collective

Michigan State University Press

Women's World
Organization for Rights, Literature and Development

Alternative African Writers

The Black Book Review
QBR is the first book review exclusively dedicated to books about the Africana experience. In its pages you will find fiction, nonfiction, poetry, children's books, health and lifestyle management, writers from Africa and the Caribbean--the whole of the Diaspora, the whole of our experience.

American Book Review
American Book Review is dedicated to reviewing books from independent, small, and university presses.

Center for Book Culture

World Literature Today
World Literature Today brings you the whole world in each issue. It has interviews and original poetry and fiction from around the globe, lively essays on writers and regional trends, authors on books that changed their lives, travel writing, a column on children's literature, and coverage of controversies and conferences.

Haruna Ishola

Irinkerindo

African Diaspora Research

Abeokuta Radio

Women In Africa and African Diaspora

African Women: Guide to Internet Resources

Feminism In Nigeria

African History Shop

African Cooking and Recipes

Ethiopian Coffee and Tea

Joshua Redman

Fela Kuti

SADE

Ahmad Jamal

Femi Kuti

Miles Davis

Dave Brubeck

Lagbaja

Charlie "Yardbird" Parker

Earl Klugh

John Coltrane

Pat Metheny Group

Chick Corea

Cannonball Adderley

Nina Simone

Billie Holiday

Dinah Washington

Jonathan Butler

Stan Getz

Christian McBride

Wynton Marsalis

Bob James

George Benson

All About Jazz

African Writers

African Language Resources

Chronicle of Higher Education

Ojogbon

Orilonise

Ijele

African Women: Selected Journals

African Magazine

African Arts Network

Yoruba Alliance

African Studies Quarterly

African Writers and their Readers

Proud Flesh Journal

The Afrocentric Experience

African Philosophy

The Wall Street Journal

The New York Times

The Los Angeles Times

King Sunny Ade

Angelique Kidjo

Jenda Journal

Alexandria Library

Africa World Press

Haki Madhubuti
An advocate of independent Black institutions, Haki R. Madhubuti is the founder, publisher and editor of Third World Press.

Third World Press

African Publishers Network-Partners

Africa Web Workshop

Yoruba Religion

The History of Islam in Africa

Christianity in Africa

Wabash Center

Wole Soyinka on Religion

Festival of Oaugadougou

Politics in Africa

Kathleen Battle

Discography-Kathleen Battle

Ivo Pogorelich

Vladimir Horowitz

Yo-Yo Ma

Jessye Norman

Leontyne Price

Denyce Graves

Midori
One of a kind violinist

Myths

Myths of Ife

Northern African Wines

Southern African Wines

African Safari

Women of Uganda Network

The South African Garden
The South African Gardens in Isle of Wight

National Botanical Garden

PlantzAfrica

Beautiful Orchids

Social Fabric-Adire
Yoruba women in Nigeria make a type of resist-dyed cloth that they call adire. They make some adire by folding, tying, and/or stitching cloth with raffia before dyeing. This is called adire oniko, after the word for raffia, iko. They also make another type, adire eleko, by painting or stenciling designs on the cloth with starch. Both types are dyed in indigo, a natural blue dye.

Books by Ali Mazrui
Dr. Mazrui's television work includes the widely discussed 1986 series The Africans: A Triple Heritage, jointly produced by' the BBC and the Public Broadcasting Service (WETA, Washington) in association with the Nigerian Television Authority.

1968 Nobel Prize for Literature
"for his narrative mastery, which with great sensibility expresses the essence of the Japanese mind"

Jean-Michel Basquiat
Jean-Michel Basquiat was born on December 22, 1960 in Brooklyn, New York. His father, Gerard Basquiat was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and his mother, Matilde was born in Brooklyn of Puerto Rican parents. Early on, Basquiat displayed a proficiency in art which was encouraged by his mother.

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