18 April, 2015

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Extra Musica: Etat Major Lorraine Hansberry: A Raisin in the Sun

“If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.”
— Maya Angelou, The Heart of a Woman

11 April, 2015

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Magic System: Africainement Votre Chinua Achebe: Hopes and Impediments

“The impatient idealist says: ‘Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.’ But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.”
— Chinua Achebe, No Longer at Ease

 

4 April, 2015

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Oumou Sangare: Worotan Mariama Ba: Une Si Longue Lettre

“I only say hello, and turn away, before his lady knows, how much I want to see him.  She removes him like a ring, she only brings him out to show her friends.”
— Joni Mitchell, Conversation

 

14 March, 2015

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Michelle Shocked: Short Sharp Shocked Ayi Kwei Armah: The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born

“Healing begins where the wound was made.”
–Alice Walker 

7 March, 2015

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Ali Farka Toure Toumani Diabate: Ali & Toumani Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Masks

“You go down to the pick up station craving warmth and beauty. You settle for less than fascination, a few drinks later you’re not so choosy.”  
–Joni Mitchell, Down to You

21 February, 2015

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Oliver Mtukudzi: Wonai Steven Johnson: Emergence

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”  
–Edgar Degas

 

14 February, 2015

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Leonard Dembo & The Barura Express: Chitekete Debbie Tucker Green: Stoning Mary

“In the morning there are lovers in the street, they look so high. You brush against a stranger and you both apologize”
— Joni Mitchell, Down to You