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Sometimes, poems come to life. Naomi Shihab Nye’s “Kindness”—which links compassion with suffering—came to life for me on Jan. 15-16, 2019 when terrorists attacked a hotel in Nairobi, killing 21 people. tinyurl.com/ya4894zc My son was in that hotel during that time.
A biologist who’s done extensive field research in Kenya, my son spent 18 hours hiding in a closet, surrounded by gunfire and explosions, not knowing if the knocks on his door were terrorists or rescuers. I learned about all this via a series of texts from him as it happened.
Once the area was secured, he was taken to safety and cared for by a mix of Special Forces, Marines, FBI, and Embassy staff. At the embassy, he journaled about the experience. Here's what he wrote on seeing photos of the dead terrorists:
“I was struck by how skinny these guys were, with bodies that looked like they belonged on children. One of the gunmen had ankles that were thinner than my fairly thin wrists. It was heartbreaking. It’s so easy to hate people. But what had happened to these folks that convinced them to head out on Jan. 15th to try and kill as many people as possible, before being killed themselves? The conditions that create those kinds of folks are the REAL evil out there, and we all have a hand in that. I am not saying they are justified in doing what they did. I’m saying that hate is lazy, irresponsible, and unhelpful.”
I wish my son could give lessons here in the U.S. on how to turn fear and hatred of “the other”—emotions that will destroy us if they continue to dominate our politics—into clear-eyed compassion. He can’t do that, but as his grateful father, I can share some of his wisdom, along with that of Naomi Shihab Nye.
Again: Hatred is lazy, irresponsible, and unhelpful, and is promoted by demagogues of the same description. Let's do what we can to rescue ALL of hate’s victims—including us and people close to us—before hate takes us down.
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Lupita Nyong'o started acting as a teen in Kenya and went on to work behind the scenes of the film The Constant Gardener. She directed and produced the albinism documentary In My Genes and starred in the TV series Shuga. Nyong'o went on to earn acclaim for her role as Patsey in 12 Years a Slave (2013), for which she won the 2014 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. The following year, she starred in Star Wars: The Force Awakens and the Off-Broadway play Eclipsed. The actress also featured prominently in the box office-shattering superhero flick Black Panther (2018).
Nyong'o was born in 1983 in Mexico City, Mexico. Her parents, Dorothy and Peter Anyang' Nyong'o, were in political exile at the time of her birth but were able to return to their homeland of Kenya during their daughter's childhood. Her father later became part of the country's senate while her mother, who worked in family planning, took a leadership position with the Africa Cancer Foundation.
Having taken to drama and obtaining the lead role in a production of Romeo and Juliet, Nyong'o also returned to Mexico during her teens to learn Spanish. She went to college in the United States, studying at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, and earning her degree in film in 2003. Upon her return to Kenya during school summer vacation, Nyong'o discovered that filming for the drama The Constant Gardener was happening in her area. She joined the set as a production assistant and met Ralph Fiennes, who told her to become an actor only if it was something she couldn't imagine doing without.
Nyong'o honed her craft as a filmmaker by directing, editing and producing the 2009 documentary In My Genes, which followed the stories of several Kenyans who are living with albinism. And she became a star of Kenyan television in Shuga, an MTV/UNICEF-backed series that looked at s*xual relationships among youth in Nairobi, aiming to promote HIV awareness and safe s*x via storytelling.
Nyong'o returned to the States and, pursuing her interest in acting, earned a master's degree from the Yale School of Drama in 2012, having performed in works like The Winter's Tale with the school's Repertory Theatre.
Weeks before graduating she found out that she had landed a part in director Steve McQueen's drama 12 Years a Slave. The Brad Pitt-produced film is based on the 19th century narrative written by Solomon Northup (played by Chiwetel Ejiofor), a Northern-based free man who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the South. Nyong'o played the role of Patsey, an enslaved young woman who befriends Northup while being horrifically abused by plantation master Edwin Epps and his wife, portrayed by Michael Fassbender and Sarah Paulson. For her performance in the film, Nyong'o earned a slew of award nominations, before taking home the 2014 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Nyong'o has become a majestic fashion icon, with red-carpet appearances and pics in publications like InStyle and W. She also twice graced the cover of Vogue in a short span of time, appearing on the publication's July 2014 and October 2015 issues.
However, Nyong'o's appearance on the November 2017 issue of Grazia U.K. fueled controversy, after the actress slammed the magazine for retouching the photo to chop off her ponytail and smooth out her hair. The magazine subsequently apologized for the editorial mishap, with photographer An Le taking the blame for his "incredibly monumental mistake."
Nyong'o starred opposite Liam Neeson and Julianne Moore in 2014’s Non-Stop, a thriller about an air marshal confronted by a deadly ransom threat. In June 2014, Disney’s Lucasfilm announced that the Oscar winner was joining the cast of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, with the film having a December 2015 release. On her Instagram account, Nyong'o posted, "I can finally say it out loud and proud: I'm going to a galaxy far far away!" The actress portrays CGI space pirate Maz Kanata in what became the biggest domestic box office outing of all time, a role she reprised for the 2017 sequel, Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
Nyong'o also prepared for her New York stage debut in autumn 2015 with the Public Theater's Off-Broadway production of Eclipsed, a drama about the struggles of several Liberian women during civil war. Eclipsed made its way to Broadway the following year in February, and both the play and Nyong'o herself soon earned Tony nominations.
Nyong'o returned to the big screen in 2016 with the feel-good Queen of Katwe, about an African girl who becomes a chess champion, and as the voice of the maternal wolf Raksha in a remake of Disney's The Jungle Book.
Nyong'o found herself in the middle of another buzzworthy project when she was tapped to join the Marvel flick Black Panther as Nakia, the love interest of Chadwick Boseman's titular superhero.
The film proved a box office smash upon its release for the four-day President's Day weekend in February 2018, raking in more than $200 million domestically and over $360 worldwide.
Additionally, the production was notable for shattering stereotypes about the limitations of marketing a largely Black cast.
Later that summer, the actress was honored with induction into Hollywood's Walk of Fame class of 2019.
Nyong'o went on to a co-starring role in the comedy-horror Little Monsters, which premiered at Sundance in early 2019. She followed with a turn to scream-out-loud horror in Jordan Peele's Us, about a family confronted by a sinister group of doppelgängers.
It’s not so much that William and Kate ‘performed’ badly on their Caribbean charm offensive. It’s more that the show is out of date
Queen Nzinga of Ndongo (Angola) was a powerful monarch who successfully kept the Portuguese out of her land for 35 years.
In order to fight off Portugal, (who wanted to conquer the area to further the slave trade) Nzinga conquered neighboring kingdoms to expand her territory. Nzinga led her warriors in battle until her sixties and defied numerous assassination attempts to die peacefully in her sleep at 81 in 1663.
Nzinga impact was so strong that she prevented the Portuguese from reaching deep into Southwest Africa until her death. Angola would finally be free of Portuguese control centuries later in 1975.
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Multiple sites across Nottingham & Nottinghamshire now offer walk-in vaccinations for 1st & 2nd doses.
For more information & where to go follow the link below.
https://mojatu.com/where-to-find-covid-19-vaccine-walk-in-sites-in-nottingham/
The Unity In The Community team is hosting a series of webinar sessions to explore vaccine hesitancy in Nottingham’s BAME community.
Join the conversation and get your voice heard, find out more below.
https://mojatu.com/upcoming-webinar-on-vaccine-hesitancy-in-the-bame-community/
Throughout July, Neighbourhood Watch Network will be tackling scams with their campaign Sling Your Hook.
If you want to know how to avoid scammers & more information on the campaign follow the link below.
https://mojatu.com/neighbourhood-watch-to-tackle-scams-with-sling-your-hook-campaign/
A new study by an international team including University of Nottingham finds climate change could significantly effect working hours.
Read more below
https://mojatu.com/new-study-finds-climate-change-could-significantly-effect-working-hours/
He's in the team. Timothy Cheruiyot will represent Kenya at the Olympics and replaces Kamar Etyang 🇰🇪
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I am supporting a dance artist friend from DR Congo, Josh Chrispin Masheka, who has just won an international professional internship at the Ecole des Sables in Senegal. This includes a scholarship, but it's not enough to cover his costs travelling to Senegal and then living there for the 6-week duration of the internship.
This short youtube video explains things: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGA1Qaw7ALw
It would be amazing if anyone was able to support Josh - any little would be a lovely help: https://gofund.me/b47c3030
Thanks a lot !
Céline
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This Sat 17th, 10-2pm🌞
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🗣 Tune in on FRIDAY 5PM and listen to the phenomenal interview with Nergiz Kurdish Women's Group! Listen here: https://tunein.com/radio/FMB-Radio-s17066/
🎙 FRIDAY at 5PM : INTERVIEW WITH NERGIZ KURDISH WOMEN'S GROUP
🤝As part of our interview project, we are extremely excited to announce that we had the chance to interview the organisation that aims to help Kurdish women living in the Nottingham area, the Nergiz Kurdish Women's Group.
👩🏻 Their work is exceptionally important as they aid Kurdish women to be more independent and help them build their confidence which is needed to confidently stand on their own feet.
🗣 In the interview they introduce their organisation, team and services in more details and highlight current projects that they are working on.
📻 Tune in on Friday at 5PM and listen to the conversation and check out their social media and contact them via the email shown in the poster: https://tunein.com/radio/FMB-Radio-s17066/
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A young Nigerian man named Usman Dalhatu has been commended on popular social media platform Twitter for inventing a solar-powered cooker that has a television.
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New Art Exchange have teamed up with Communities Inc to host a series of community conversations exploring these vital questions. These online sessions will be facilitated by creative practitioners Akshay Sharma and Jaya Gordon Moore, who will use spoken word and poetry to inspire and create a dialogue.
📹 These series of conversations will help Akshay and Jaya create a short film. This film will collate the ideas and opinions shared during the sessions, and creatively represent our visions for Nottingham as an actively anti-racist city, to be shown through a series of pop up screenings this year.
These sessions are informal, interactive and collaborative. Bring a cuppa, bring your ideas and join Fya Notts!
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