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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

    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

    Antonio Forcione & Eduardo Nieblo, Brother Resistance, Zolan Quobble, Sister Netifa

    22 April 1988 at 
    Covent Garden Community Centre (182)
  • Midsummer Poetry Festival (1988)

    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)

    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

    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

    Lambeth Amenity Services

    11 March 1989 at 
    Abeng Community Centre (London - Lambeth) (1)
  • The Second International Poetry Festival

    The Second International Poetry Festival

    08 April 1989 at 
    Interchange (3)
  • Benjamin Zephaniah, Sister Netifa, Brother Resistance, Sista Culcha

    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

    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)

    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

    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

    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)

    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

    Sister Netifa & The Woman Determined Band, Lioness Chant, Patience Agbabi, Sista Culcha

    22 March 1991 at 
    Covent Garden Community Centre (182)
       
  • Wild & Wicked

    Wild & Wicked

    05 April 1991 at 
    Surrey Hall (London - Clapham) (2)
  • Brother Resistance & Steel Pan Man, Levi Tafari, Brother Niyi & Torera Mpedzisi, Sister Netifa

    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)

    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

    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

    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)

    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

    Chris Bowsher, Haji-Mike, Levi Tafari, Sister Netifa

    02 October 1992 at 
    Covent Garden Community Centre (182)
  • Artists for Palestine Benefit

    Artists for Palestine Benefit

    03 October 1992 at 
    Covent Garden Community Centre (182)
  • Apples & Snakes Relaunch Party

    Apples & Snakes Relaunch Party

    10 September 1993 at 
    Covent Garden Community Centre (182)
  • Jean 'Binta' Breeze, Cecil Rajendra, Propaganda, Sister Netifa

    Jean 'Binta' Breeze, Cecil Rajendra, Propaganda, Sister Netifa

    24 September 1993 at 
    Covent Garden Community Centre (182)
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