Okou produce a swirling worldy mix of blues, pop, folk and soul – echoing everyone from Billie Holiday, through Tom Waits to Nitin Sawhney. But their sound never feels forced or artificial.
Kenyan novelist Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s memoir tells of growing up under British colonial occupation and during the Mau Mau rebellion in the 1950s.
"With their country weakened from decades of war, embattled from the ineffective rule of the new king and vulnerable to insurgencies from within and threats from afar, Robin and his men heed a call to ever greater adventure."
South African singer Letta Mbulu, was born and raised in Soweto and travelled to the US in the mid 1960s as an exile from the apartheid regime.
Sly and the Family Stone pioneered funk in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Swansea-based theatre group Antic Corporation’s latest work is the poignant true story of Josef Herman.
A new production of the 1960s anti-war musical Hair has come to London after taking New York’s Broadway by storm.
It’s election night in 1979 and in an east London police station DS Karn and DC Wilby are eagerly awaiting the "new dawn" that will accompany Margaret Thatcher’s victory.
Levellers Day A festival celebrating the radicals in the English civil war in the seventeenth century. This year’s festival focuses on the issue of sustainable food for all, with speakers including Professor Tim Lang, Tristram Stuart and David Gardner.
This replica of a 12th century elephant clock is part of the 1001 Inventions free exhibition at the Science Museum in central London until 30 June. Refreshingly, it shows the contribution of Muslims to social, scientific and technological progress.
This Acclaimed novel is set in Palestine in 1895 – the year that saw the publication of Theodor Herzl’s book, The Jewish State. This marked the beginning of modern Zionism.
The recent reimagining of Battlestar Galactica has a lot to answer for. It took its basis from a pretty naff late-1970s TV series but was a brilliant and highly successful meditation on the "war on terror".
