Extraordinarily, while Rabiah Hussain was writing her new play, a brain tumour attacked her ability to communicate. Extraordinary, because Word-Play is about language.

Kwame Kwei-Armah has compared living with his Grenada-born parents in Britain to existing with two types of theatre: he would be serving rum to his father and his pals, while his mother was hosting church meetings in the living-room. His new play is also like two types of theatre.

A Playlist for the Revolution at the Bush Theatre is a blast.

From the moment you enter A World In Common: Contemporary African Photography, you know you’re in for something a little different.

The recent blistering report on racism, sexism and elitism in English cricket reinforces Duck’s Arcola Theatre depiction of the camouflaged prejudice behind the crushing of a British Muslim schoolboy’s prodigious sporting talent.

A neighbour’s curtain twitches when the unknown Black man walks past. Minutes later the police turn up. They ask what he’s doing and take his name and address.

Congo has long been a victim of Western greed and violence, whether King Leopold’s atrocities; Belgium’s terrorising Force Publique with its mass amputation of labourers’ hands and feet; murderous political chicanery - including the assassination of independence leader Patrice Lumumba; and mining companies’ ruthless political and economic corruption.

If you plan to see Sir Isaac Julien’s exhibition at Tate Britain, What Freedom Is To Me, you might need to set aside three-and-a-half  hours.

Who in this country knows about the “hidden war” of Independence in Cameroon in the 1950s? Very few people.

From the Black Death to Covid, BreaDth sets out to dramatise pandemics and the lives of older people and the racial minorities who care for them.

The  Calais Jungle was a testament to government neglect but also to human  compassion, says volunteer carpenter Thomas Laurence. Now he’s made a film that proves the point.

“… and that’s how I got to be here … in custody.”

And that’s the Windrush scandal, written by and starring Sir Lenny Henry at the Bush Theatre.

A huge snake extends across the wall. Pleasingly colourful. But look closer. There’s another element: the serpent is made of scores of life vests.

“Let’s take this show off the grid”, says Lydia West as a signal for the Barbican Centre lights to switch off and for 10 on-stage cyclists to start cranking up the power.

Why help farmers with seeds, or build wells, or encourage women to join co-ops? If you want to help the poor in Africa, Asia and Latin America, give them cash.

Have you heard the one about the woman who goes into a bookshop to report that a book about a slave trade mass murder is in the wrong place?

Radio-Télévision Libre des Mille Collines played a deadly role in the 1984 Rwandan genocide and its call to kill has become emblematic for hate speech.

Chinese-Canadian-British playwright Joanne Lau has the last laugh in her comedy drama, Worth.

When Francis returns to his remote island home from a spell in South Africa he declares that he has brought a surprise from the outside world.