Any excuse at all to go to Libreria, one of my favourite places in London (I profiled it here) so it was great spending Thursday evening there for an event – Black Literary History: An African Perspective with Inua Ellams, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi and Sylvia Arthur …

It was a good evening for this. One of those hot London days when Summer is happening properly and there’s actual cause for shorts. After walking up and down Bellendon Road and noting some shops I’d never seen before, I…