Afrikanism

We've been feverishly acquiring new skills at our HQ in Dalston! We've been piecing together this old Fela footage and learning how to do animation to bring you this rather nice vid with original music by Ogheno( http://www.myspace.com/ogheno.)

The music and Video are called Afrikanism.

We hope you like.

Afrikanism


Stills from the video

Chris Ofili at theTate

We were kindly invited to the Chris Ofili exhibition at the Tate Britain by Charlie Dark.

Showing for the first time in Britain the Tate brings you an in depth catalogue of over 45 pieces of work spanning from the mid 90s to present day.
Ofili quickly rose to fame early in his career as an artist who is most famous for his Elephant Dung paintings and being the first black painter to win the Turner price.
Now residing in Trinidad the exhibition takes you from a young black artist screaming for attention forged under the back drop of "cool Britannia" through an introspective blue period, then finally out the other side arriving at a cornucopia of colour and passion which is heavily influenced by his residence in Trinidad, the rhythm of the carnival is definitely in his most recent works!

PS. The after party was AMAZING, free cocktails, good tunes.....much fun and mischief was had by all!! LOL!!

Afro 2000


Chris Ofili’s The Upper Room which was especially designed by the architect David Adjaye in 2002 at the Victoria Miro Gallery


Iscariot Blues 2006



Douen's Dance 2007 inspired by Malick Sidibé 1963 photo Nuit de Noel





Good People


The man him self Chris Ofili


Charlie Dark


Caroline Issa Editor of Tank magazine and fashion designer Duro olowu


Artist Yinka Shonibare


Artist Lemi Ghariokwu view our blog on his exhibition of Fela Album artwork





David Adjaye Architect and Okwui Enwezor Curator and writer



Nicola and Roger Robinson. Check his new music King Midas Sound


Studio Pixie Grafic Designer and Twitter Family






Chris Ofili bootleg merchandise


Chris Ofili official






Black Nurse Network................. lol

After the show was the after party








Cocktails, Soca and Sweet mother kept Bnn Happy



Prince Nico Mbarga Sweet Mother




Red Plastic Bag Volcano

A Short Film on Mr Jones - KEZIAH JONES

I love this short film which gives you a look at Keziah Jones before he was famous.

In the directors own words:

"Using our own rare footage, we cut this to promote Keziah to record companies - from busking to first performance to recording his first record - a rare insight into the early days of an artist's career... "

ENJOY

TV Commercial casting for Star Beer

Calling all Nigerian Nerds..yes you've been getting spoiled on this blog recently!
An opportunity for some Naija man of seismic proportions has come to Bnn's attention:

"TV Commercial casting in London and filming in South Africa. No Experience necessary. We are looking for interesting Nigerian (or of origin) guys between 22 and 35. We will be casting the week of the 20th of May. The shoot will be in South Africa for about a week at the end May. The rates are Basic studio fee is £250 per day and 300 percent for Nigerian tv ie £750 abt the same for print. All exspences paid trip to South Africa. Please send a photo and contact details to Ian Sheppard at Shep@shepdog.com asap Good Luck."

so if you like:


Picture taken from http://koranteng.blogspot.com/








Then contact:
Ian Sheppard at Shep@shepdog.com

Ps. for those BLACK NERDS that need a bit of history:

STAR was introduced into the Nigerian market on 2 June 1949 as the first indigenous beer brand; the beer market having been dominated exclusively by imported brands. Shortly after its entry into the market, STAR quickly brushed aside the problems usually associated with a new brand in a market already used to imported beer and started a path of tremendous growth. For instance in 1962, about 2, 191,376 cartons of STAR were sold and by 1975 the figure has risen to 11,266,000 cartons. As at 2003, the sales figures were in the region of over 40 million cartons in that year alone.

Happening Saturday

Last Saturday saw Bnn Hq of East, head to the mighty South. We started at Embassy Nigerian restaurant in New Cross where we were a bit disappointed by the usually superb cuisine but the Nigerian Guinness and Guinness malt was on point.

Never seen outside of Nigeria pt2 Guinness malt pt1



Fried rice, Chicken, Plantain and Stew




We then took a trip to Brixton and was seduced by a pub playing Fela. Went across road to Satay bar and thought we love Brixton Black for still keeping it real. We Then went back over the river via bus and ended up in Plastic people to Nonsence for an overdue visit.



Met some cool girls sporting Disney courture with vintage chic and another bringing back a revial of beaded hair.