Guided Search: Arts and Culture, Nigerian (Nigeria)

Join FPRI Trustee Ambassador Charles A. Ray and author Ambassador John Campbell for a discussion of Campbell’s new book, Nigeria and the Nation-State: Rethinking Diplomacy with the Postcolonial World.

Lucky Goat and Johnny Brendas Present: Africa's Greatest Dance Orchestra, Ibibio Sound Machine

A multi-generational ensemble of women performs movement, song, and text influenced by dystopian folklore, speculative fiction, Igbo cosmology, and the futures and commodities markets. Bessie Award-winning artist Okwui Okpokwasili created Poor People’s TV Room with director/visual designer Peter Born, inspired by two historical events in Nigeria: The Women’s War of 1929, a resistance movement against British colonial power, and the Boko Haram kidnappings of more than 300 girls that launched the Bring Back Our Girls movement. Contains nudity.

Rafiya – Up-Close Live & Hustle Video Premiere

Rafiya, AfroPop’s best kept secret, is bringing her breathtaking show to Philly as one of the select artists participating in the Up-Close live series. She will perform two sets on Thursday October 16th at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m at Relish located on 7152 Ogontz Ave.

A young aspiring actor from upcountry Kenya dreams of becoming a success in big city Nairobi. Drawn into a new world of theft and violence, he struggles to keep his acting and criminal worlds separate.

Called “the 21st-century daughter of that other great Igbo novelist, Chinua Achebe" (The Washington Post Book World), Nigerian-born writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie exposes the deep scars of colonialism on the African landscape. Her debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, which followed a 15-year-old girl growing up in sheltered privilege in a country ravaged by political strife, received the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book.