African Hunter

Washington National Opera presents Blue, a contemporary opera about racism in the United States today, with a libretto by Tazewell Thompson and music by Jeanine Tesori. Blue tells the tragic story of an African-American police officer whose son is killed by a fellow officer during a demonstration. The play, which strongly alludes to the Black Lives Matter movement, is equally groundbreaking on the opera stage thanks to its intimate and multi-layered portrayal of African American family life.

Africa has the longest record - some 2.5 million years - of human occupation of any continent. For nearly all of this time, its inhabitants have made tools from stone and have acquired their food from its rich wild plant and animal resources. Archaeological research in Africa is crucial for understanding the origins of humans and the diversity of hunter-gatherer ways of life. This book provides an up-to-date, comprehensive synthesis of the record left by Africa's earliest hominin inhabitants and hunter-gatherers…

Tony Scott is a restless, original and innovative genius who, more than any other major musician today, has traveled, played and preached jazz throughout the world. He has cultivated close spiritual and musical relationships in the diverse places he has visited. Their native music has constantly fueled his fertile imagination, and he has imparted his own version of Black jazz through their sounds and rhythms. But it was in Africa, with its complex rhythms, in its strivings and frustrations, that he felt he had encountered the soul of his idol, the late Charlie 'Bird' Parker.