Our Back Pages: Who has played @Mwalimu Express in 2016 -19?
Oct 2019 OTTO AND THE MUTAPA CALLING
Sept 2019 ABDUL TEEJAY's PALM WINE AGOGO
May 2019 COCO MBASSI
April 2019 ATONGO
Mar 2019 ABDOULAYE SAMB
+ MINNJIARABY
https://youtu.be/KKVn5Ju96qQ
Feb 2019 BREIS
https://youtu.be/bVr3AYvf4ko
Big thannx to BREIS for a mighty fine show and this vid too
Dec 2018 Biram Seck & the Jhant Band
Nov 2018 EFG London Jazz Fest Sesh: JASON YARDE (saxes) BEX BURCH (gyil) Batch Gueye (percussion,vox, dance )
Oct 2018 Medioni Quartet feat YAZID FENTAZ I ( oud ) SIMO LAGNAWI ( gimbri and karakab)
LYNDON OWEN (horns and pipes ) CRAC DOWNES (basses)
& Maurice El Medioni: The Birth of PianOriental (UK 2018 dir. Clive Myer & Lynda Myer-Bennett)
Sept 2018 NAMVULA & ATONGO ZIMBA
https://namvula.bandcamp.com/ https://youtu.be/vQQ53FCtCSc
May 2018 LONDON ZULU
Apr 2018 SEBY NTEGE
Mar 2018 KADIALY KOUYATE 4TET
Feb 2018 MODOU TOURE
Jan 2018 THE SCORPIOS
Dec 2017 Mulele Matondo Afrika's KONGO DIA NTOTILA
Nov 2017 EFG LONDON JAZZ FESTIVAL 2017:
Mwalimu Express Afro Jazz Allstars
CAMILLA GEORGE
KADIALY KOUYATE
MULELE MATONDO AFRIKA
PAT THOMAS
Oct 2017 MUNTU VALDO
Sept 2017 WIYAALA & SABBEY INTERNATIONAL
Mar 2017 GRUPO LOKIT0
Feb 2017 ABDULAYE SAMB
Jan 2017 ABDUL TEE_JAY & ASABI HAWAH
Dec 2016 LONDON ZULU: Transglobal Underground Collective & Ingrid Webster
Nov 2016 EFG LONDON JAZZ FESTIVAL 2016
Orphy Robinson (vibes)-Misafiri Zawose (vocals/zeze/limba/ngoma/flute)-
Magnus P.I (percussion/beats)-Sam Jones (electronics)
Oct 2016 DIABEL CISSOKHO
Sept 2016 SEBY NTEGE + NAA ADJELEY KWEI's Homowo festival images
May 2016 KONGO DIA NTOTILA
AFRICAN CINEMA presented by SCREEN STATION www.screenstation.net
Dec 2017
THE STORY TELLER
( 2017 - dir. Alex Emmanuel https://vimeo.com/alexemanuel
Oct 2017
SEMBENE!
The Inspiring Story of Ousmane Sembene
Father of African Cinema
(2015 - dir. Semba Gadjigo & Jason Siverman)
MANDELA: LONG WALK TO FREEDOM
(2013 - dir. Justin Chadwick)
March 2017
MAHALEO
(2005 -Dir. Marie Cesar Paes and Raymond Rajaonarivelo)
Jan 2017
Mama Africa
(2011 - director: Mika Kaurismäki)
Watch the trailer here:
Dec 2016
Martha & Niki
(2015 Director: Tora Mkandawire Mårtens)
Oct 2016
Soul Power
(2008 Cert PG-13 Director: Geoff Levi-Hinte)
'a riveting glimpse of another time and another place, when things were more radical and more gloriously ramshackle' The
Guardian
*****
Sept 2016
Abouna Our Father
(2002 Cert PG Direction
' This beautifully gentle and lucid film rises head and shoulders above the rest of the week's new releases.' The Guardian
*****
May 2016
AKOUNAK TEDALAAT TAHA
Rain, the colour of blue with a little red in it
dir. Chris Kirkley
“a gentle bliss-out of a feature” The Village
Voice
“ charming and rag-tag” The Atlantic
EVERY MONTH
DJ's Max Reinhardt and Rita Ray
behind the decks.
Babies toddlers Kids and parents dance sessions
with Lucy Angell John
Hone your Oware skills with Seth
and the junior pebble demons
Dom's cd stall
Plus all your favourite Open The Gate
African Market stalls
and Kunle's African street food fresh from the pot