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Sister Netifa

Contains 25 performances.

Netifa Akousa. For a day in her life, see this fascinating film: The Frontline - All Saints' Road, Notting Hill.

Joolz, Sister Netifa, Linda King, Anna Palm
12 February 1988 at
Covent Garden Community Centre (182)
Antonio Forcione & Eduardo Nieblo, Brother Resistance, Zolan Quobble, Sister Netifa
22 April 1988 at
Covent Garden Community Centre (182)
Midsummer Poetry Festival (1988)
19 June 1988 at
Covent Garden Piazza (2)
Annual partnership event with Alternative Arts.
African Dawn (with special guest Jewel Ackah), Masimba Rapso Poets, (Sister Netifa, Brother Book, Brother Resistance, Seko Tafari)
28 October 1988 at
Covent Garden Community Centre (182)
Shout: Voices Against Censorship
14 January 1989 at
ICA (3)
Audience member Paul Steeples, taken from www.juliemyers.org.uk: I remember going to an event protesting about censorship, mainly to see Tony Benn performing with Test Department (which he did, and it was good). Halfway through the evening, Salman Rushdie got up on stage and said he had been made the subject ...
Lambeth Amenity Services
11 March 1989 at
Abeng Community Centre (London - Lambeth) (1)
The Second International Poetry Festival
08 April 1989 at
Interchange (3)
Benjamin Zephaniah, Sister Netifa, Brother Resistance, Sista Culcha
27 October 1989 at
Covent Garden Community Centre (182)
Night of Poems for Liberation in the '90s
13 April 1990 at
Covent Garden Community Centre (182)
Part of the Seven Nights for Nelson festival, marking the end of Nelson Mandela’s 26-year imprisonment.
Midsummer Poetry Festival (1990)
23 June 1990 at
St Martin's Market Theatre (2)
Annual partnership event with Alternative Arts.
London Rape Crisis Centre benefit
09 September 1990 at
Hackney Empire (2)
Sister Netifa & Parminder
Bukky Leo Trio (with Gary Crosby & Brian Abrahams), Brother Resistance, Carlos Rigby, Sister Netifa
14 September 1990 at
Covent Garden Community Centre (182)
Mother Tongue UK Tour '91- (Perf 8)
11 March 1991 at
Darlington Arts Centre (Darlington) (1)
Sister Netifa & The Woman Determined Band, Lioness Chant, Patience Agbabi, Sista Culcha
22 March 1991 at
Covent Garden Community Centre (182)
Wild & Wicked
05 April 1991 at
Surrey Hall (London - Clapham) (2)
Brother Resistance & Steel Pan Man, Levi Tafari, Brother Niyi & Torera Mpedzisi, Sister Netifa
12 April 1991 at
Covent Garden Community Centre (182)
7th Midsummer Poetry Festival (1991)
22 June 1991 at
Victoria Embankment Gardens (8)
This performance in partnership with Alternative Arts
Sister Netifa & The Determined Band, Storme Webber, Dorothea Smartt, Leonora Rogers-Wright
10 April 1992 at
Covent Garden Community Centre (182)
Brother Resistance & The Network Rapso Riddum Band, Levi Tafari, Haji-Mike & Sugar, Sister Netifa
15 May 1992 at
Covent Garden Community Centre (182)
Midsummer Poetry Festival (1992)
21 June 1992 at
Victoria Embankment Gardens (8)
This performance was in partnership with Alternative Arts
Chris Bowsher, Haji-Mike, Levi Tafari, Sister Netifa
02 October 1992 at
Covent Garden Community Centre (182)
Artists for Palestine Benefit
03 October 1992 at
Covent Garden Community Centre (182)
Apples & Snakes Relaunch Party
10 September 1993 at
Covent Garden Community Centre (182)
Jean 'Binta' Breeze, Cecil Rajendra, Propaganda, Sister Netifa
24 September 1993 at
Covent Garden Community Centre (182)

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