Good news from Victoria Bentley as she completes this phase of her volunteer work in the Congo and returns home to Santa Barbara, California. She’ll return to the Congo in July. Click here for updates on a sewing room with 10 machines set up at the women’s center…that will make a big difference.
African Fabric
This so reminds me of Tswaragano Craft Center, the project the Gabane, Botswana villagers and I created in the late 1970s.
Wole Soyinka, playwright, “The Lion and the Jewel” The Lion And The Jewel opens Friday, April 18, 8:00 p.m.at Washington University: Edison Theatre St. Louis, St Louis, Missouri. “The Lion and the Jewel” by Wole Soyinka is diirected by Ron Himes and presented by the Washington University Performing Arts Department. VENUE Edison Theatre St. Louis…
Janean sent this blended memory from her childhood that made its way into a recent conversation with her older son. Today, my first big snow day in St. Louis, seemed like a good day to post this. When we were growing up on the homeplace in rural Illinois, on the bluffs above the river, all…
“Africa is a continent, not a country!” Have you noticed that folks all too often flatten out the mind-spinning variety of African topography, countries, cultures, languages, beliefs, architecture, conflicts, joys and sorrows…by referring to the single word “Africa”? It’s easy to do. I’ve done it myself. But, remember the nuance. Remember the vastness.
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From the book jacket: “Middle Passages examines more than two centuries of African American journeys to Africa, from the arrival of the first colonists in Sierra Leone and Liberia to the heritage tourism of our own time. The book’s subjects include many of the central figures in American intellectural, political, and artistic life–Martin Delany, Langston…
To understand the situation in Kenya as “ancient tribal hatreds” is to understand World War I and World War II as “ancient tribal hatreds” between the Germans on one side and the French, English, and Russians on the other.—David Zarembka David Zarembka and Gladys Kamonya of the African Great Lakes Initiative appeared in St. Louis…
Oh my gosh. That fabric is lovely. And what an awesome project. I’ve always wanted to participate in something like that.