African Tales from the Hip is a collective, made up of African & Caribbean writers, actors, theatre practitioners, costume makers, make up designers and such the like, who are all inspired to reinstate the african traditional fingerprint in contemporary theatre.

Born from work done with archive intervention organisations, the collective was formed when it became apparent to both the researchers and the practitioners involved in earlier career staging performances in Britain, that there is a dearth in Black actors being trained to perform from a cultural space that is systemically African. 

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