Earlier this month Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o visited Reader’s Cove bookstore in Fort Collins as part of the inaugural Uhuru Film Festival. Below is video of the author reading from and discussing his novel Wizard of the Crow. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o book reading in Ft. Collins, CO from MetroAfrican on Vimeo.
January 15, 2010 – The University of Colorado at Boulder College of Music is proud to announce the 10th Anniversary Celebration of the CU West African Highlife Ensemble, April 17th at 7:30 PM in Macky Auditorium. Joining in the anniversary celebration will be a delegation of chiefs and queenmothers from the Asante Kingdom of Ghana [...]
The first edition of the Colorado African Yellow Pages & Guide has been around for several weeks now, so if you haven’t gotten your copy yet, stop by your local African market today to pick one up. Inside you will find many of the same listings you see here at metroAfrican, including African restaurants and [...]
Dr. Pius Kamau is a thoracic surgeon in Denver. A native of Kenya, Dr. Kamau came to the US in 1971. He read his essay “A Duty to Heal” for NPR’s This I Believe series back in 2006. This past week the essay was replayed on the program. If you have not yet heard it, [...]
From a pair of TOMS shoes to a trip to Costa Rica, guests at Educate!’s annual ball bid on silent auction items that would at once allow them to win fun prizes while also raising money for education in Uganda. In addition to the auction Educate supporters bought art and jewelry made in Uganda, pledged [...]
When the time came to get his picture taken Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o did not say “cheese”. He said “githeri” – the name of a popular Kenyan dish. The renowned author takes every opportunity to slip into Kiswahili and Kikuyu languages switching from English to either with ease. Wa Thiong’o was in Fort Collins this week [...]
In December we wrote about the African Bold Leaders, a group of twenty young people and four instructors from Tanzania, Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa who spent four weeks in Denver and Washington, DC. The Bold Leaders program run by Critical Mass Leadership Education brings students to the U.S. for conflict resolution, civic education and [...]
