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...show, Mama Rashida. Although Abigail Kolodny, as Liza, offers the audience some priceless facial expressions, it soon becomes apparent that these are a dime-a-dozen, and she quickly uses up the few she has. One of the most comical aspects of the play is the presence of Okonkwo, Lejoka-Brown's sidekick, played by Eliott Fan. His acting is competent but his character seems out of place...
...best opportunity came with 20 minutes to play when midfielder Peter Verplancke crossed the ball to forward Emma Okonkwo. Amidst the scramble, Reilly managed to dive and bat the ball away...
...been waiting to get in and get my books for an hour," said law student Emmanuel Okonkwo. "I went out to eat, and when I came back, I couldn...
Black Africans in Moscow encounter little pure racial prejudice, but they have had some disillusioning encounters with the Russian police state, which contrasts badly even with their memories of colonial regimes in Africa. In a recent series of articles in the Lagos Sunday Times, Nigerian Student Chukwuemeke Okonkwo told how he rushed to Moscow in 1957, to find that Russian students were awed by "our easy manner, our gaiety and our open debates." When the Russians started imitating Africans at Moscow University, down rattled the Iron Curtain. Africans were segregated, jazz records were banned, free debates were outlawed, dates with...
...Okonkwo was also dismayed to find himself exploited for propaganda. Last July he was boxing in a Moscow University gym when he was asked to pose for a photograph. In August he recognized himself in a full-page picture in a big-circulation magazine. On his wrists were broken chains, and near him cringed a white man with a whip...