January 20, 2006

ROCHELLE RILEY: Keep creative faith in city\'s youths

Sometimes we forget that it is here -- that massive unmined wealth of talent that Detroit has more of per capita than anyplace else in America , save L.A. or New York . So it shouldn\'t surprise that someone who lives more than 10,000 miles away is the one to remind us -- and herself -- of our gifts. Aku Kadogo, a Detroit native who now lives in Sydney, is a theatrical director and choreographer who has come back home to direct a Wayne State University Black Theatre Program production of \"The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God,\" a morality play about faith and ancestry that is based on a line from a George Bernard Shaw play.

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