Daliso Chaponda announces 2024 tour
Revisiting a solo show from 20 years ago with the benefit of hindsight...
Daliso Chaponda has announced a UK tour for 2024 entitled Feed This Black Man Again.
The show is an updated version of one he performed 20 years ago in Canada, in which he discussed the way Africans were always portrayed as starving, negative stereotypes that were all supported by charities.
However, promoters Impatient admit that at the time ‘the jokes were mediocre, it included an offensive rap about poverty and the big finale was his eating a sandwich on stage’ – so now he has revisited the idea with two decades more comedy experience behind him.
They say: ‘He talks about how different the show would have been if he wrote it now instead of the original time, and wondered if he would have cared as much about white privilege, or cultural misportrayal as he did as a 21-year-old? Now the 43-year-old Daliso critiques the naivety of that 21-year-old and what ridiculous preconceptions he had and how naive all young people had at the time of ways of "changing the world"
‘"In which ways would the young Daliso be disappointed at the person he became? He would have loved the fact he had made a living as a comedian, but less so the fact he has no wife or kids. It's also questionable that over the years he has had weird relationships with girlfriends - a stripper, a single mother and an ex who was a compulsive liar.’
Chaponda said: ‘Touring comedy is what I love most and do best. What's interesting about this show is that I look back on how I started, where I am and get to the bottom of why I love and need this. It's all very therapeutic and new age, but also I think this show is full of fun.’
The Feed This Black Man Again tour kicks off at the Glasgow Stand on February 11, with dates running through to the end of June.
Published: 13 Dec 2023
