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Artists reclaim Africa’s forgotten World War I history

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Source: East Bay Express

Even in South Africa, their story is not widely known: Two million Africans labored, fought and died during the First World War. In South African performance visionary William Kentridge’s The Head & the Load, presented by Cal Performances Nov. 12-15, this history is brought to light with language, music and dance. Composer Philip Miller stated […]

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