For many Brits, Mau Mau conjures up images of horrifyingly brutal Black men swearing frighteningly bloodthirsty oaths before committing unspeakable atrocities against White people.

You know you’ll get strong meat when a Suzan-Lori Parks play is on the menu. The Book of Grace is no exception.

May 35th is a play about a date that doesn’t exist, on a subject that in China is taboo, presented by a group many of whom must conceal their real names.

Young love runs into rough water in Empty Nests, a moving drama set on Iran’s Caspian coast.

Goodbye Julia Is perfect proof that the personal is political. It is the story of two women whose lives are intimately entwined after an accident in which one accidentally kills the other’s son in a road accident.

Multiple Casualty Incident is about three people taking part in a series of role-plays in London as preparation for being sent abroad to deal with an emergency in a refugee camp in the Middle East.

British-Somali writer  Sabrina Ali enjoyed making her friends laugh at school and now she’s making audiences laugh at the Royal Court theatre.

Tender, humorous, innocent, fresh, romantic, touching - yes, Nezouh is another film on the conflict in Syrian and the risk of dangerous escape routes to Europe.

Beyond the Bassline: 500 Years of Black British Music is on show at the British Library. Wait: make that 523 years, because John Blanke, a royal trumpeter in the courts of Henry VII and Henry VIII, probably arrived in 1501.

Swearing, sex talk, insults, epithets, rivalry: a group of World Cup players row, spill secrets and get on each others’ nerves. These women are all Indian and English cricketers, and their shared impatience make for a lively first act of Testmatch at the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond.

Tomorrow’s Freedom is the optimistic title of a new documentary about Palestine’s “Prince of Freedom” aka “Palestine’s Nelson Mandela”, Marwan Barghouthi.

US actor Stephen Tobolowsky got it right when he said: “I had never before heard of Agathe. Now I will never forget her.”

The yawning gap between those who raise ethical questions about museum exhibits and those who see only value-free objects devoid of political or social context caused uncomfortable ripples at the media preview of Ranjit Singh: Sikh, Warrior, King.

‘Nominative determinism’ is the idea that people tend to gravitate towards areas of work that fit their names. So perhaps it’s not surprising that Congolese rapper Baloji’s first film is Omen.

Who knew? About the 1860s Indigo Rebellion that forced British planters out of Bengal?

Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence is not a blockbuster exhibition that will draw large crowds. Will anyone uninterested in Ghana or India in the 1960s pay £14 for a peep?

You can’t get a quart into a pint pot, according to an old saying. But the Jermyn Street Theatre has disproved it twice over.

An exhibition of textiles? Nah - too boring. Where’s the drama and danger in sewing and thread? If that’s your reaction, and you don’t bother to see Unravel, The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art, you are making a big mistake.

The ever-provocative Yard Theatre’s latest production was such an instant success that after a few performances its run was extended by a fortnight. Those early audiences were right: Rhianna Ilube’s 90-minute play is hugely entertaining.

Current exhibitions by Black artists show how they have fought their way into Western art, but the latest show — The Time Is Always Now: Artists Reframe The Black Figure — illustrates how many still feel the need to fight the old battle.