Word: kongi
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Would you consider partnering with mass-market brands like H&M? Grace Lien, Hong KongI don't think so. Versace is positioned in the luxury-brand market, and only in that way can you be established forever as a luxury brand...
...York City, as well as in Africa, have known for two decades that Soyinka is a writer worth watching and hearing. An evening in the presence of his words might bring anything: A Dance of the Forests (1960), a dreamlike, ritualistic celebration of Nigerian independence edged with satire; Kongi's Harvest (1965), a biting attack on an Nkrumah-like dictator. Soyinka has found widespread favor without ever courting it. His writings have charged the West with soulless materialism and his fellow Africans with barbarisms and corruption. He has staked his art in a no-man's-land between conflicting cultures...
Soyinka, author of "Kongi's Harvest" and "The Lion and the Jewel," was detained by the Nigerian government during the seventies for his political activities. He spoke as a guest of the annual Theodore Spencer memorial lecture series, which has, in the past, invited T.S. Eliot and Jean Renoir...
...Negro Ensemble Company seems to be forging a dubious tradition of brilliantly staging mediocre material. Last season, the company managed to make interesting evenings out of two rather lumbering efforts from Africa - Song of the Lusitanian Bogey and Kongi's Harvest. The play the Negro Ensemble offered last week lumbers out of dark est Georgia. God Is a (Guess What?) was written by Atlanta Schoolteacher Ray Mclver, whose intention was clearly to make a cutting satire of black-white relations...
...Kongi's Harvest was clearly a labor of love for the Negro Ensemble, which does its best to move the play along with a remarkably fluid use of its ingeniously economical set. Far livelier than Soyinka's prose, though, is the ensemble's simulated tribal dancing, clearly the most pulsating choreography in town...