Africa Utopia
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Level 5 Function Room
Caine Prize Reading
Sunday 1 July 2012
Sunday 1 July 2012
26940
Best Available
The Caine Prize Readings offer a brilliant snapshot of contemporary African fiction.
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Purcell Room
Robben Island Bible
Tuesday 3 July 2012
Tuesday 3 July 2012
Africa | South Africa | Literature & Spoken Word | Talks & Debate | London Lit Festival 12 | Africa Utopia
25890
A copy of The Complete Works of Shakespeare smuggled into a prison is the starting point for this evening of performance and discussion
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The Front Room at QEH
Putting the African into African American:
Tuesday 3 July 2012
Tuesday 3 July 2012
27048
Free
As the son of a Kenyan immigrant Barack Obama's challenges and opportunities have been different from other African-American politicians, exposing the tensions both within black America and the diaspora.
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Level 5 Function Room
African Writers' Evening
Tuesday 3 July 2012
Tuesday 3 July 2012
Africa | Angola | Ethiopia | Ghana | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature | London Lit Festival 12 | Africa Utopia
25889
Best Available
Author-journalists José Eduardo Agualusa (Angola) and Dinaw Mengestu (Ethiopia) explore -- in readings and discussion -- the limitations of borders in the imaginative landscape of the African writer.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Word Sound Power
Tuesday 3 July 2012
Tuesday 3 July 2012
Africa | Botswana | Cuba | Ethiopia | Literature & Spoken Word | Literature & Spoken Word | Music | Folk & World | Poetry | Africa Utopia
25884
Writers as you've never seen them before, reading to the music of Senegal's Baaba Maal, performing live.
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Purcell Room
Nigeria Now
Wednesday 4 July 2012
Wednesday 4 July 2012
Africa | Nigeria | Literature & Spoken Word | Talks & Debate | London Lit Festival 12 | Africa Utopia
25894
Noo Saro-Wiwa, author of Transwonderland, and Chika Unigwe, whose latest novel Night Dancer is published this summer, explore the complexities of Nigeria, a country of economic dynamism, corruption and a geopolitical significance, and also a giant literary heritage.
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Purcell Room
Africa Sci-Fi Screening
Wednesday 4 July 2012
Wednesday 4 July 2012
Africa | Film | Science | Literature & Spoken Word | Talks & Debate | London Lit Festival 12 | Africa Utopia
25953
This event explores the subject of genre in African writing, visual art and film.
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Level 5 Function Room
Nuruddin Farah
Wednesday 4 July 2012
Wednesday 4 July 2012
25948
Best Available
Nuruddin Farah is one of the key voices about contemporary Somalia
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Taj Mahal
Wednesday 4 July 2012
Wednesday 4 July 2012
Africa | Blues | Caribbean | World | Jazz & Blues | Music | Folk & World | Africa Utopia
25885
A not-to-be-missed performance by Grammy Award-winning composer and multi-instrumentalist Taj Mahal.
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The Clore Ballroom
Sounds From A Room: Baaba Maal
Sunday 15 July 2012
Sunday 15 July 2012
Africa | Free | World | Music | Rock & Pop | Folk & World | Africa Utopia
27288
Free
Baaba Maal, one of West Africa's and Senegal's best known and most exciting musicians, is the seventh guest in the year-long series Sounds From A Room.
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Gregory Maqoma
Tuesday 17 July 2012
Tuesday 17 July 2012
Africa | Africa Utopia Highlights | Dance & Performance | South Africa | African Dance | Contemporary Dance | Africa Utopia
25949
In this show South African choreographer Gregory Maqoma breathes new life into his Xhosa past
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Queen Elizabeth Hall
Oumou Sangaré & Béla Fleck
Wednesday 18 July 2012
Thursday 19 July 2012
Africa | Music | Folk & World | Africa Utopia
25886
A genre-bending collaboration between banjo virtuoso and 18-time Grammy award winner Béla Fleck with Malian diva and Wassoulou singer Oumou Sangaré, here performing tracks from Fleck's 'Throw Down Your Heart' release, alongside original Sangaré songs
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Purcell Room
Catalyst Rwanda
Thursday 19 July 2012
Thursday 19 July 2012
Africa | Dance & Performance | Literature & Spoken Word | Rwanda | Literature & Spoken Word | African Dance | Africa Utopia
25952
Picture this - a group of former street children in Rwanda want to learn hip-hop dance, so London B Boy Pervez heads out to this tiny central African country to teach them how to break!<br/><br/>Les Enfants de Dieu aims to transform the lives of Rwandan street children by giving them a place to live, an education and hope
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Royal Festival Hall
Paco Peña: Misa Flamenca Africa
Friday 20 July 2012
Friday 20 July 2012
Africa | World | Music | Rock & Pop | Folk & World | Africa Utopia | Voicelab
26266
The Spanish master of flamenco guitar Paco Peña returns to Royal Festival Hall with a radical new interpretation of his classic flamenco mass Misa Flamenca, still widely considered as one of his greatest works. The original work saw Peña unite the Catholic perception of the religious Mass with the flamenco musical tradition.
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The Clore Ballroom
Gregg Kofi Brown & Friends
Friday 20 July 2012
Friday 20 July 2012
Africa | Free | Latin | World | Jazz & Blues | Music | Rock & Pop | Folk & World | Africa Utopia | Friday Tonic
26195
Free
At heart of July's Africa Utopia festival, catch this very special Friday Tonic free gig.
The Front Room at QEH
A New Frontier
Friday 20 July 2012
Friday 20 July 2012
27519
Free
In 2011, the UK exported more goods to Africa than to Brazil and India combined, and the IMF predicts that between 2010 and 2015, seven out of the top 10 countries with the greatest GDP growth will be African.
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The Front Room at QEH
China Loves Africa
Friday 20 July 2012
Friday 20 July 2012
27518
Free
Modern day plunderer or serious investor and business partner? China’s rapidly expanding presence in Sub-Saharan Africa is worth billions.
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Central Bar Foyer
Max Baillie & Sura Susso
Friday 20 July 2012
Friday 20 July 2012
Africa | Baroque | Free | Music | World | Zimbabwe | Music | Folk & World | Africa Utopia | Friday Lunch
25977
Free
From the sublime to the virtuosic, Max Baillie (violin) and Sura Susso (kora) present a mix of Baroque and West African music including pieces by Lully, Merula, and centuries-old African bardic spirituals.
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The Front Room at QEH
Africa and the Technology Revolution
Friday 20 July 2012
Friday 20 July 2012
27517
Free
A technology revolution is taking place in Africa, driven by mobile phones, smart entrepreneurship and citizen participation.
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The Front Room at QEH
Africa is not a Country: Reporting Africa
Friday 20 July 2012
Friday 20 July 2012
27516
Free
The perception gap between how Africa is reported and the reality of the continent is discussed by this panel of journalists, including Belinda Otas, who writes for New African Woman magazine.
