Word: afrika
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have no money") opened the first festival of black South African drama ever to play outside its homeland. Mbongeni Ngema's group portrait of five prisoners, together with four other plays of protest, will run for four weeks in New York City and Washington. The series is entitled Woza Afrika! (Rise Up, Africa!), and the exclamation point is not redundant. Mixing shouts of rage with eruptions of folkloric exuberance, the guerrilla drama aims to win hearts and minds by broadcasting the cries of the silenced...
Glimpses of the enduring agony of South Africa's blacks have long been afforded to Western playgoers by Athol Fugard, two of whose works -- The Island and Sizwe Bansi Is Dead -- also emerged from township improvisations. But Woza Afrika! promises to hurl its viewers onto the other side of the fence, in the midst of the fray. Though far less polished than a Fugard play, Asinamali! is far more charged; its fury lies in its energy. Fugard's eloquent dramas turn upon the moral and emotional conundrums facing whites who wish to choose the right way; Woza Afrika! dwells...
NIGERIAN-BORN AUTHOR Buchi Emecheta welcomed her cosmopolitan sisters to the United Nation's conference on the Decade of Women in Nairobi last spring: "On behalf of mother Africa, 'welkome, dear sisters to the Modar' lan'. Afrika go treat you well, well. Welkome." Her welcome came as a genuine call for solidarity, reconciling differences within the international women's movement...
Three others have already been convicted in the case. The defendants, who were drawn from such other vestiges of the '60s as the Black Panthers and the Black Liberation Army, claimed they planned to use the "expropriated" Brink's money to establish the "Republic of New Afrika" in the Southern U.S. Appearing chastened but calm, Boudin told Judge David Ritter: "I feel terrible about the lives that were lost. I have led a life of commitment to political principles, and I think I can be true to those principles without engaging in violent acts...
...will star in and perform the music for another rock-oriented movie, Hard to Hold; one single, Love Somebody, has already been released, though the film is not due until April. The beat will go on with such upcoming movies as Purple Rain (music by Prince) and Beat Street (Afrika Bambaataa and Soulsonic Force, among others...