A decade ago, I had turned thirty. I had completed my training. I had entered the workforce. Adulthood had begun. I had hopes. I had aspirations. Instead I met failure. I met disappointment. In reflecting on the past decade today and crafting a vision for the next I intend to be kinder to myself. I […]
Slave Play – Broadway: An Opinion
So I experienced Slave Play at the John Golden Theatre yesterday, and I’m still processing. But given that it took me forever to process Fairview, I have decided to just get my thoughts out there and not add to my “to blog” backlog. Where to start? Basics! Slave Play, which opened on Broadway in September […]
Death on Christmas Day
Christmas is a joyous occasion. When the phone rings you anticipate far-flung family and friends calling to wish you a Merry Christmas. You do not expect to be told that a relative has met death. Unfortunately, that was Christmas 2019 for us. I had travelled to my sister’s place where our mother has been staying […]
The White Gaze in Fairview
Jackie Sibblies Drury’s 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning Fairview came to the Wooly Mammoth Theater Company in Washington D.C. Having enjoyed the last play I watched there I was eager to attend. Fairview is a play centered on a “regular” middle-class black family preparing to celebrate Grandma’s birthday at home. The mother is frazzled wanting everything to […]
“She The People”: A Review
It’s not always that I have a laugh-out-loud Tuesday evening. But that’s exactly what the fearlessly hilarious women of The Second City’s “She The People: The Resistance Continues!” delivered this week at the Woolly Mammoth in Washington DC. “She The People” is an intelligent improv and sketch comedy featuring a diverse but all-female cast that […]
Boys Will Be Boys & Girls Just Have To Deal With It
Growing up in the 1980s in communist East Berlin our filmography came from decades past. Joy came from actors such as Terence Hill & Bud Spencer and Louis de Funès who my sisters and I affectionately called Big Nose. Inger Nilsson’s Pippi Langstrumpf showed us spunk, strength, and common sense. But then there was the […]
A Chance Encounter with Professor Ablade Glover
Professor Ablade Glover is probably one of Ghana’s national treasures. A painter and educator, he trained in Ghana, Britain, and the United States. Born in 1934, this octogenarian’s art can be found in galleries worldwide. He is a recipient of the FLAGSTAR Award (the top award for Arts in Ghana), is a Life Fellow […]
Familiar by Danai Gurira
For my birthday this year, a friend got me tickets to see Familiar, a play by Danai Gurira, author of Eclipse on Broadway, Michonne on The Walking Dead, and more recently the Dora Milaje General Okoye in Black Panther. It was excellent. We are transported to Minnesota, to the living room of a Zimbabwean-American family […]
School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play
Christmas weekend saw me in Greenwich Village for “School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play”, an off-Broadway show. It was well worth the bus trip from Washington D.C. We are transported to 1986 to Aburi Girls Boarding School in Ghana where we meet six senior class-girls competing for the crown of Miss Ghana 1986. […]
Comedian Zainab Johnson in DC
I was invited to Drafthouse Comedy theatre recently, last minute really, to watch comedian Zainab Johnson. Such a great performance. She was hilarious. I didn’t know who she was. Much of her comedy is shaped from her own life. A black woman, Muslim, who grew up in Harlem, as one of thirteen siblings. A black […]
A lover of mangoes. A woman - smart, without pretense, lefthanded, Afropolitan - navigating this thing called life. An unapologetic believer in social justice and karma. Choosing to radiate positive energy and be true to myself. Here, my musings.