Theatre

Africker

Alan Hindle | Wednesday 16 March, 2011 15:35

It only took about thirty years, at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the 20th centuries, for European governments and fledgling corporatocracies, still teething their baby fangs, to properly carve up Africa. Fair enough, they’d spent several hundred practicing. The Scramble for Africa is still going on, with more local players but the white guy is still doing pretty good.

It’ll be interesting, when the dust and blood has settled on the recent spate of people’s liberations, to see what support these virgin democracies get should they want to stop giving all their resources away. Soon, the pinstripes will move in to offer all sorts of help rebuilding.

Afriker is a new play by RSC Other Prize-winning Freddy Syborn, contributing joke writer for most of the panel shows that have actually been funny these last ten years, looking at the various crimes against humanity that’s been global foreign policy for Africa since… Well, since.

22-27 March, 7:30 Hoxton Hall, 130 Hoxton Street, hoxtonhall.co.uk, 0207 684 0060, Old Street and Liverpool Street Stations

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