Seven Songs for Malcolm X by John Akomfrah, 23 February
Saturday 23 February 1pm-4pmBFI Southbank (near Royal Festival Hall) Belvedere Road SE1Tube: Waterloo. Free entry: First come,first served** Best Feature Length Documentary, 1994 Image D’Ailleurs (Paris) ** Best Historical Documentary & Audience Special Merit Awards Winner, 1993 National Black Programming Consortium** Best Use of Archival Footage in a Documentary, 1993 Chicago Film Festival This film […]
Lumumba plus Q & A with Congolese Association, 17 February
Sunday 17 February 2pm-5.30pmImperial War Museum, Lambeth Road SE1Tube: Lambeth North.Free entry: First come,first served (15 years and over) www.iwm.org.uk European countries were still trading in Africans and chopping off their hands in the 20th century. Forced labour was used in the tin-rich Jos plateau of Nigeria and the diamond mines of the Congo during […]
Malcolm X and British Civil Rights, 16 February
Saturday 16 February 11am-3pmBernie Grant Arts Centre, Town Hall Approach. Tube: Seven Sisters. Bus 149,259,243,476,230Free entry: First come,first served www.berniegrantcentre.co.uk This event is brought to you in association with Kokayi Saturday School. February 21st 2008 will be the 43rd anniversary of Malcom X’s assassination. His parents were Garveyites and he later carried on their work. […]
Africa Addio, 25 April
Saturday 25 April 2pm-5.00pm BFI Southbank (near Royal Festival Hall) Belvedere Road SE1 Tube: Waterloo. Tickets ₤5, best to book early. Phone 0207 928 3232 www.bfi.org.uk/southbank Africa Addio (Italy 1966) Part of the Mondo Caine school. This is the film that preceded the banned and hated Goodbye Uncle Tom and was said to be […]
Welcome Black ? 21 March
Above: Caribbean ex-servicemen returned to Britain after serving in WW2 Saturday 21 March 1pm-4.30pm Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road SE1 Tube: Lambeth North. Free entry: First come,first served www.iwm.org.uk 1946 after black people had fought and died all over the world for Britain those still in England were told to go back where they had […]
White King, Red Rubber, Black Death, 21 March
Saturday 21 March 2pm-4.30pm BFI Southbank (near Royal Festival Hall) Belvedere Road SE1 Tube: Waterloo. Tickets ₤5 Phone 0207 928 3232 www.bfi.org.uk/southbank King Leopold II of Belgium in the early 20th century turned the Congo into a vast rubber-harvesting labour camp in which he killed millions and amputated the hands of tens of thousands […]
Palestine and Africa Whats the connecttion ? 13 March
Above: Map of British Mandate of Palestine 1923 which includes parts of what is now considered Syria, Jordan, Iraq and Saudi Arabia Friday 13th March 7pm-9.30pm Unit 9 Eurolink Business Centre, 49 Effra Road SW2 Tube: Brixton.Adm: £5.00 entry. www.blackstarline.info A special presentation sampling the work of Ben Bousquet, Tony Tee, Lord Balfour, Edward Said, […]
Black Women Resistance Leaders, 6th March
Friday 6th March 7pm-9.30pm Unit 9 Eurolink Business Centre, 49 Effra Road SW2 Tube: Brixton Adm: £5.00 entry www.blackstarline.info Visual biographical details of black women from all over the world who have resisted slavery, colonialism and racism . Women do not get the historical credit they deserve. This event will give the audience video and […]
Black Victim of the Nazis, 22 February
Above: African soldier in German Prisoner of War Camp. He is lucky as many captured black troops were shot on sight then mutilated Sunday 22 February 1pm-4.30pm Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road SE1 Tube: Lambeth North. Free entry: First come,first served www.iwm.org.uk What we know today as the Holocaust was researched, rehearsed and refined in […]
Night of Truth, 21 February
Saturday 21 February 2pm-5.00pm BFI Southbank (near Royal Festival Hall) Belvedere Road SE1 Tube: Waterloo. Tickets ₤5, best to book early Phone 0207 928 3232 www.bfi.org.uk/southbank Previously sold out. Truce is called on a brutal civil conflict. The two sides agree to a feast. Can they put the past behind them? Fanta Régina Nacro’s […]