It starts with a production of Puccini’s Madam Butterfly more than a century ago: the handsome visiting white US military officer and the pliant, Asian doll-woman.

The Old Oak is a film about what happens when Syrian refugees move into a run-down, dead-on-its-feet north-east English town.

So, Mahatma Gandhi was murdered because his assassin was brought up as a girl to appease the Gods and was symbolically killing the father who had metaphorically castrated him?

Sorry We Didn't Die at Sea is uncategorisable but funny and entertaining.

Bobi Wine: Ghetto President pitches you face-to-face with the rough and tumble of Uganda’s political and election battles as pop star-turned-MP Robert Kyagulanyi  takes on the country’s 36-year dictatorship.

Brassic FM is a two-barrel blast at the authorities trying to police aspects of working-class British cultural life.

Lagos Peckham Repeat: Pilgrimage to the Lakes is full of energy, humour and invention - just like the thousands of Nigerians in the south London district of Peckham, part of 12,000 Nigerians in the borough of Southwark.

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.