Category: The Beat
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Watch: Lionheart | A Movie With Heart
Nollywood…chai! Growing up in Nigeria it was essential viewing. The quality wasn’t always great but the stories, all of them regardless of culture, had one thing in common, heart. The narrative carries the movie through, poor production quality notwithstanding. Over the years the quality has improved and stories elevated and have become even heartier. There…
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Frida Kahlo- Making Her Self Up | A Little Too Personal
Even in death, we deserve a little bit of privacy, no matter how public a live we lived, there should be some things that remain unknown, even in death, especially about our most intimate moments. I love Frida Kahlo, I’ve journeyed around to see her art work. I find her story both compelling, fascinating and…
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Netflix Fix- Van Gogh and Teenage love
I have a confession; I am addicted to Netflix and Amazon prime TV, and I am not even sorry about it. I could watch hours and hours of shows, even have it on when I am sleeping. When I cook I have on something on Netflix or amazon prime, typically something I have watched before…
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Twerkin’ On Tables & Other Life Lessons- Slay In Your Lane
Last week I and my sister had the distinct pleasure of attending an evening with Yomi Adegoke and Elizabeth Uviebinené authors of the Black Girl Bible and all round book of wisdom, Slay In Your Lane. Before now, there were very few books that spoke to Black women in Britain, that spoke directly to us,…
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Go See | The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives
Lola Shoneyi’s bestselling novel is brought to life on the London stage in this ambitious, funny, witty and poignant play. A show of hilarity and intrigue, tragedy and karma (a big theme in many a Nollywood films), the play revolves around Baba Segi a wealthy trader who lives in a mansion, his four wives and…
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Finding Frida | Frida Kahlo, The Heroine Of Her Life
Today is Friday Kahlo’s birthday and somewhere in heaven I want to believe that she and Diego finally have a shot at life together, with lots of children and happiness that eluded them in life. Frida Kahlo, a woman full of mystique, an artist full of life. For years I have followed her art and…
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Black Panther | A Narrative Retaken
You’ve seen the movie (I have six times, once we bought tickets and did not even go to the cinema), and now that is is on DVD I have seen it near enough everyday with my friends, nieces and nephews, alone… because it is such a movie that resonates with me. You know the story…
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Drake v Pusha T- Drake is losing.
I am of a particular time when it comes to music the 90’s hip-hop, rap, R&B era when the talent was real and the music was significant. Music stopped being about talent in the early 00’s or some such time when Justin Timberlake became a solo artist and everyone thought him the next coming of…
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Hamilton | The Greatest Show On Earth
Live shows. I am not a huge fan of them, I prefer my entertainment in HD, on a giant screen, from the comfort of a couch. But Hamilton is no ordinary show. We were meant to see this on Thanksgiving last year, which would have been so awesome but the theatre refurb wasn’t complete so…