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18 LEISUREWatch NIGERIAN WATCH 12 - 25 Feb 2016 Follow us on Twitter @NigerianWatch musIc Dele sosimi Nigerian Afrobeat superstar Dele Sosimi performs in a world-class acoustic setting. 19 Feb, 8pm. From £9.50 Kings Place, 90 York Way N1 www.kingsplace.co.uk La bomba De tiempo Legendary 16-piece percussion phenomenon from Buenos Aires. 19 Feb, 7pm. Tickets £12 The Forge, 3-7 Delancey St NW1 www.forgevenue.org soukous vs hip hop – congo meet sierra Leone Kasai Masai from London (right), mix the traditional sound of the equatorial African village with a distinctive urban edge. The band’s fast-paced style of Soukous and African Rumba is impossible to stay still to. Meanwhile, Alim Kamara rocks crowds with energy and thought provoking lyrics that safely carry you through a roller coaster of emotions. 27 and 28 Feb, 8pm. Tickets £9.36 Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road E1 www.richmix.org.uk EXhIbItIoNs a New home A mixed media exhibition showing works by members of the East London Printmakers print studio and guest artists. The theme is ‘belonging’, and it explores issues around identity, migration and a sense of home. Ongoing until 23 Feb, 12 noon - 6pm. FREE The Art Pavilion, Mile End Park, Clinton Road E3 www.eastlondonprintmakers. co.uk I am The greatest: muhammad ali at The o2 Exploring Muhammad Ali’s incredible rise from humble beginnings in Kentucky, where he was known as The Louisville Lip, to becoming the three times heavyweight champion of the World. 4 Mar - 31 Aug, Mon-Fri: 10am – 4pm, Sat-Sun: 10 am - 5.30pm. Tickets from £18. The O2, Peninsula Square SE10 www.theo2.co.uk othEr valentine’s night and relaunch of Naija style magazine Nigerian buffet, live band, dancers, cultural performances and a promise that everybody goes home with a present… 13 Feb, 6pm tip late. Advance tickets £20 Haringey Irish Centre Tottenham Page, Pretoria Road N17 www.naijastyle.global rich mix youth takeover Festival 2016 Five days of free and low cost arts workshops, industry professional masterclasses and gigs during February half-term. 15-20 Feb, times vary, FREE booking essential for some activities, see website for details. Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road E1 www.richmix.org.uk IcsN valentines general house meeting Monthly social meeting, with Igbo proverbs about relationships/marriage as well as Igbo love messages/chat up lines and Blind Date, love box, as it’s Valentines. 21 Feb, 6pm-9pm. £5 entry. Free for members Score Centre, 100 Oliver Road E10 www.icsn.co.uk L-o-v-E: a Fundraising Party for amurt Nigeria With Dj Ripla on the decks, playing all your favourite Afrobeats, garage, hip hop, rap, trap music and old skool classics and a variety of L-O-V-E games to get everyone mingling and interacting… 27 Feb, 10pm-4am. Advance tickets £10. Festac Bar, 148 Holloway Road N7 www.icsn.co.uk african-caribbean health Day Raising awareness of preventable diseases in the African-Caribbean community, speakers include Levi Roots, Dr Adeola Olaitan and Leye Ajayi discussing issues such as Weight, Blood pressure, Cervical and Prostate Cancer. 20 Feb, 9.30 - 4.30. Tickets £13.49 Royal College of Nurses (RCN), 20 Cavendish Square W1G http://black action4 health.com BEHIND THE SCENES with Lace Mamen uncle rafool time! toP uk aFrobEat aND urbaN PraNkstar uNcLE raFooL DroPs hIs FIrst vIDEo ‘WashErE omo Ft oLuWa shImzIE’ thIs moNth. bts boys Was at thE scENE! If you are in the game, afrobeat or main stream urban, you will know of the craziest prankster of them all right now, uncle rafool. “I almost been punched, kicked and slapped by superstars on my own show. If you don’t believe me just type uncle rafool on youtube,” he says. This Nigerian british prankster has got everybody tripping, Paigey cakey, may7ven, msbanks, moelogo, timbo stP etc. uncle rafool is a “ProbLEm”. rafool tells bts at his own video shoot for ‘Washere omo’ that he is generally cool and just being truthful – “all their music suck “my chaNNEL Is to comPLImENt thE WomaN’s EFFort IN EvEryWay, ENsurE a smooth ruNNINg oF thE homE,” kolawole ajayi ceo Nigerian cuisine When you’re travelling abroad, you will not know how much you will miss your Nigerian Food. The longer you stay abroad, the more you know you just can’t live without it. you are not alone there; Nigerian cuisine has over 57 Nigerian dishes online and over 25,000 subscribers from The usa to uk and Europe. Now you know bts boys have to catch up with a guy like this. myself and mr ajayi chopped it up at a cool spot in the o2 arena and yes my own dish appointment was booked. kola told me he started cooking Nigerian dishes and having friends around as a hobby, they were impressed and kept coming often. he decided to put it online without knowing how successful it will be. behold today NIgErIaN cuIsINE helps facilitate foreign marriages, helps the woman and the family work, helps men treat the Women well, and helps the kids at universities cook these dishes themselves and stay off the microwave culture. These are just a few advantages people have told kola about his channel, Nigerian cuisine. Watch the full interview showing at 10.30 p.m on ben tv sky channel 182, and on www.btsbehindthescenes.com. Nigerian cuisine is sponsoring the food feast in London on april 30 with afrobeats Dj starzy, it’s an all african fire and grill face-off. tickets start from £5.00. Don’t miss the face off, don’t miss the show. and I don’t want to lie to them!” ‘Washere omo’ is his first single ft. oluwa shimzie. shimzie is all music with hits like ‘come show me’, ‘carolina’ and ‘hustle’. shimzie says he and rafool are doing a joint project, which should be out around summer. check out pictures of bts boys with the cast and crew from Washere omo. The record sounds dope and all the beautiful stuff was handled by the edgy boss media. Let go!
EDUCATIONWatch Like us on Facebook NIGERIAN WATCH facebook.com/NigerianWatch 12 - 25 Feb 2016 19 Why we should value migrant students The refugee crisis has seen schools in many countries having to accommodate new arrivals. but the oEcD's education director, andreas schleicher, says the evidence of international tests suggests migrants are likely to be an asset to their new schools Immigrant children are often highly motivated and have ambitious parents. And these clever, hungry-to-learn youngsters often achieve higher results than the rest of their classmates. In 1954, the United States opened its borders to an immigrant from Syria. His son, Steve Jobs, became one of the most creative entrepreneurs, revolutionising industries from personal computers through animated movies and music to mobile phones and digital publishing. In the current refugee crisis that might look like a fairy-tale, but it is not that implausible. While immigrant youngsters might face cultural, social and economic disadvantages, the top 10% of 15-year-old students with an immigrant background in the United States did just as well as the top 10% without an immigrant background, as measured by the international Pisa tests. In fact, when accounting for Andreas Schleicher social background, these highachieving immigrant teenagers were almost a school year ahead. This doesn't only happen in the United States. In 13 out of the 37 countries with comparable data, including the United Kingdom, the top 10% of immigrants were at least 10 points ahead of their nonimmigrant counterparts in Pisa tests, after accounting for social background. These highly motivated students, managing to overcome the double disadvantage of poverty and an immigrant background, have the potential to make exceptional contributions to their host countries. On average across all countries, top performing immigrants and non-immigrants reached similar levels of performance on the Pisa mathematics test. Many immigrants, after the sacrifices of migrating, seem determined to make the most of any opportunity that arises. Their children also seem ready to take on an academic challenge. Alongside the Pisa tests are questions about students' willingness to try to solve more complex problems. Firstgeneration immigrants, including in the UK, are more likely than average to want to stretch themselves and try to answer more difficult problems. The OECD's research shows that immigrant students - and their parents - hold an ambition to succeed that in most cases matches, and in some cases surpasses, the aspirations of families in their host country. For example, parents of immigrant students in Belgium, Germany and Hungary are more likely to expect that their children will go to university and get a degree than parents of students without an immigrant background. What makes this so remarkable is that these immigrant families are likely to be poorer than their nonmigrant neighbours and their children are likely to do less well in school. But nonetheless their parents still hold higher expectations for them. The gap in parental expectation grows even wider when it's a comparison between newly-arrived poor migrants and local deprived families. In Belgium, Germany, Hong Kong and Hungary, the parents of immigrant students hold much higher educational expectations for their children than the parents of similarly disadvantaged nonimmigrant students. The migrant students seem to be more determined. Comparing students of similar ability, the immigrant teenagers were often the ones with more ambitious career expectations. Such confidence can pay off. Students who hold ambitious, yet realistic expectations about their educational prospects are likely to work harder and make better use of the education opportunities available to them. Nonetheless many children from immigrant backgrounds face enormous challenges at school. They need to adjust quickly to different academic expectations, learn in a new language, forge a social identity that incorporates both their background and their adopted country - while often under conflicting pressures from family and peers. These difficulties in integrating into a new society are magnified when immigrants are segregated into poor neighbourhoods and into struggling schools. So it's no surprise that Pisa test results have shown students with an immigrant background falling behind nonimmigrant students. However, this average performance gap should not mask the finding that many immigrant students overcome these obstacles and excel academically. They succeed in school and it's a testament to the great drive, motivation and openness that they and their families possess. There is also nothing inevitable about immigrant students doing less well, as the evidence of Pisa tests shows they can achieve very different results in different countries. The crunch point isn't the point of entry for migrant students, but what happens afterwards. It depends on whether schools are ready and able to help such migrants succeed and reduce the disadvantages that will face them. The world might seem to be becoming an increasingly complex and uncertain place, but some immigrant students are an inspiration for how societies can become more cohesive and resilient. Why choose Kingston University? “ The teaching is excellent and very efficient in helping students learn more and get exposure in their field of study. ” Elo Onovughe Nigeria Biomedical Science • Number two in the UK for graduate start-ups* • Innovative, cutting-edge undergraduate and postgraduate courses in: - Art, Design and Architecture - Arts and Social Sciences - Business and Law - Science, Engineering and Computing • Scholarships of £4,000 available for international students • 25 Minutes from central London in a beautiful riverside location • Real diversity - with students from over 150 different countries FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT: T: +44 (0) 208 417 3411 E: international@kingston.ac.uk www.kingston.ac.uk/international *2015, HESA
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