From Africa To The White House

Start Date : April 23, 2011
End Date : April 23, 2011
Time : 3:00 pm to 4:30 pm

Phone : 0151 708 7270

Location :
Everyman 3rd Room, Hope Street, Liverpool, L1 9BH

Description

A Musical Journey of Resistance, Triumph and Spirituals. From Africa to the White House celebrates the hidden, forgotten, glorious history of Africa and her people from pre-Trans-Atlantic Slavery times through to the symbolic triumph of having a Black President in the White House. Aluko, writer and performer of award-winning one-man play Call Mr. Robeson, celebrates the lives of freedom fighters across the Black Diaspora, including figures like Paul Robeson, Nelson Mandela, Malcolm X and lesser known ones like Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti of Nigeria and Queen Nanny of Jamaica. He unearths hidden political messages in the words of African American Spirituals like Swing Low Sweet Chariot, Down By the River’s Side and others, singing them live and showing how the music and the example of those who paved the way for Obama can inspire us in today’s struggles for peace, justice and equality, whatever our race.