A Brother with Perfect Timing

A Brother With Perfect Timingbụ ihe nkiri akwụkwọ akụkọ 1987, nke Chris Austin duziri, gbasara onye egwu Abdullah Ibrahim na mgba ọ na-alụ megide ịkpa ókè agbụrụ na South Africa.Rawls, John. Southern Africa Political & Economic Monthly, Volume 9. Southern African Political Economy Series (SAPES) Publications Project, 1995, pp. 11–12.

 Ihe ndị mere n'oge gara aga 
E mere ihe nkiri A Brother With Perfect Timing n'afọ 1986 - afọ anọ tupu a tọhapụ Nelson Mandela n'ụlọ mkpọrọ, na mgbe ọchịchị ịkpa ókè agbụrụ ka dị. Ihe ngosi ahụ gụnyere ihe ngosi nke Ibrahim na mkparịta ụka banyere abụọ n'ime ihe ndị o dere, "Anthem for a New Nation" na "Mannenberg".

Dị ka onye na-enyocha maka KUVO redio kọwara, "N'ime ihe nkiri ahụ Ibrahim na-arụ ọrụ dị iche iche. Mgbe ụfọdụ ọ bụ onye na-akọ akụkọ, na-akọ akụkọ na ịkọ akụkọ akụkọ ihe mere eme, omenala na egwu akụkọ ihe mere eme, na-enye ihe atụ, na ọbụna ọchị maka otú ya na ndị ọzọ na-egwu egwu si zụlite.  A na-ahụ ya ka ya na septet Ekaya ya na-eme egwuregwu n'ụlọ oriri na ọṅụṅụ Manhattan nke Sweet Basil, nakwa ka ọ na-amụgharị otu egwu egwu.

Ndị na-agụ egwú gosipụtara na Ibrahim gụnyere Carlos Ward, Ricky Ford, Charles Davis, Essiet Okon Essiet, Don Mumford na Ben Riley.

A na-agbasa ihe nkiri ahụ na BBC Two Arena na 27 Febụwarị 1987.

 Nnakwere 
Akwụkwọ akụkọ New York Times tụlere ihe nkiri ahụ nke ọma, na-akpọ ya "nlegharị anya nke ọma banyere onye na-egwu egwu nke mba ọzọ pụtara ma ihe mgbu na mkpalii".Pareles, Jon, "Film: Abdullah Ibrahim", The New York Times, 4 September 1987. A tụlere ihe nkiri ahụ n'akwụkwọ Jazz on Film nke afọ 2004, ebe onye edemede Scott Yanow toro "mgwakọta nke ajụjụ ọnụ na egwu" nke ihe nkiri ahụ.Yanow, Scott. Jazz on Film. Backbeat Books, 2004, pp. 29–30. Magazin Coda nyochagharịrị ihe nkiri ahụ, na-ekwu na Ibrahim "na-abịa dị ka nwoke okpukpe dị mma ma dị ùgwù".Norris, John, Coda Magazine, Issues 230–235, 1990, pp. 30–31.

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