Kategoria BISAC: Drama >> African

In the era of the American Civil Rights Movement, and barely three years after Africa's most populous nation celebrated her independence from colonial rule, the Nigerian government brought her full weight to bear in a world championship title bout-the first ever in Black Africa. The Dick Tiger vs. Gene Fullmer III fight, held in Liberty Stadium in Ibadan, Nigeria, on August 10, 1963, was a forerunner for all the big fights in the African continent. Westerners didn't believe that a newly independent African nation could dare muster the audacity, or financial backbone, to stage a world...

In the era of the American Civil Rights Movement, and barely three years after Africa's most populous nation celebrated her independence from colonial rule, the Nigerian government brought her full weight to bear in a world championship title bout-the first ever in Black Africa. The Dick Tiger vs. Gene Fullmer III fight, held in Liberty Stadium in Ibadan, Nigeria, on August 10, 1963, was a forerunner for all the big fights in the African continent. Westerners didn't believe that a newly independent African nation could dare muster the audacity, or financial backbone, to stage a world...

This one-hander tells the true story of Charles Ignatius Sancho, who became the first black person of African origin to vote in Britain. Full of surprising, moving, and funny twists, Sancho is the story of a man who dared to act, write, sing, dance, and voice his political opinion with wit and charm.

A beautiful, mellifluous narrative by award-winning writer and performer Inua Ellams. This play follows the hilarious exploits of a natural-born troublemaker, from a youth spent on the clay streets of Nigeria to the rooftops in Dublin and finally to London.

During the Apartheid years in South Africa, a copy of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare was smuggled around the prison on Robben Island. The book's significance resides in the fact that the book's owner, Sonny Venkatratham, passed it to a number of his fellow political prisoners in the single cells, including Nelson Mandela, asking them to mark their favourite passages with a signature and date. Informally known as "the Robben Island Bible," numerous prisoners selected the speeches that meant the most to them and their experience as political prisoners.

In 2008 and 2010,...