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Synchrony: From New York to Nigeria | Thursday April 24, 2025 at 7:30pm in the Red Theater
The second edition of The City and the Writer for Words Without Borders is an all-star lineup of writers, directors, actors, and musicians. The evening engages with the award-winning film The Man Died (2024), which is inspired by Wole Soyinka’s memoir and directed by Awam Ampka, Vice Provost for the Arts and Dean of Arts and Humanities at New York University Abu Dhabi. Starring Nathalie Handal, global citizen and prize-winning poet, Wole Soyinka (Nigeria) Nobel Prize winner; Awam Ampka (USA-Nigeria) renowned interdisciplinary artist; Claudia Rankine (USA) New York Times bestselling poet; Sir John Akomfrah (Ghana-UK) film director and screenwriter; Yolanda Castaño (Spain) winner of the Spanish National Award for Poetry; Wale Ojo (Nigeria-UK) actor and lead role in The Man Died; Andrea Cote(Colombia) winner of the Premio Casa de América de Poesía Americana Award; and musical performances by Anthony Joseph (Trinidad) musician and T. S. Eliot Prize winner; Abínibí Groovy Band (Nigeria), Afrocentric music group led by Abbey Trombone, trombonist and composer of the soundtrack for The Man Died; Herve Samb (Senegal) guitarist and pioneer of Jazz Sabar; Otis Brown III (USA) Grammy-nominated drummer and recording artist; and Somi (USA-Rwanda–Uganda) Grammy-nominated vocalist, actor and playwright.
