Also, who knew that being the city’s “harbor boss” was such a challenging gig?
Tag: Africa
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The best of the 2016 World Music Festival
Highlights of the 2016 World Music Festival include Ethio-jazz pioneer Mulatu Astatke, electro-rumba innovators Ìfé, and forward-looking Indian classicists Anjna and Rajna Swaminathan.
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An African-Latino showcase gives us history by way of cha-cha-cha
Columbia College inaugurates its new Afro-Latino dance program with four days of cross-pollinated performances.
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A Brigadoon for modern times
The Goodman Theatre’s 21st-century revival retrieves Brigadoon from the misty past.
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David Brooks: Kidnapped schoolgirls aside, Africa’s doing great!
This isn’t the best time to interest us in a progress report on Africa.
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Noise in the Waters ain’t Club Med
Noise in the Waters tells the stories of the thousands who lost their lives crossing the Mediterranean.
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More Sounds from Sofrito
British DJ crew Sofrito serves up another killer comp of Caribbean, South American, and African grooves
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Talking while Africa burns
Danai Guriria’s The Convert premieres at Goodman Theatre
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Femi Kuti Reconfronts the “Attitude of Lagos” with Chicago Afrobeat Project’s Kevin Ford
Fela’s oldest son talks democracy, his father’s legacy, and his new album.
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Tapestries of Hope
“Tapestries of Hope,” a documentary about human rights activists combating Zimbabwe’s devastating “virgin myth,” screens Tuesday at Landmark Century Centre and the Lake Theater.
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5/22 — Free International Awareness Festival at D’Estee Inc.
On Sat 5/22 from 2 to 5 PM, the Chicago alumnae chapter of Delta Sigma Theta hosts a free International Awareness Festival at D’Estee Inc.
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Our Trip to Africa
Peter Kubelka’s 1966 scrambled document of an African hunting trip, “Unsere Afrikareise,” screens Monday 3/15 in the Landscape Films program at the School of the Art Institute
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The Will to Survive
“The Will to Survive: The Story of the Gullah/Geechee Nation,” a documentary about Sapelo Island, Georgia, screens at Kennedy King College on Tuesday 2/9.
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Cuba: An African Odyssey
“Cuba: An African Odyssey,” screening Monday 2/8 at Biblioteca Popular, follows Cuba’s role in African liberation campaigns from the 60s through the 80s.
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“Milking the Rhino” Director David E. Simpson
David E. Simpson, director of the documentary “Milking the Rhino” about community-based conservation in Africa, speaks Tuesday 1/26 at Chicago Filmmakers.