Lynette Yiadom Boakye is an incredibly talented British Ghanaian artist who paints beautiful, enigmatic portraits of fictitious people. The people she paints only exist in her head but something in their presence seems so familiar to me. Continue reading Lynette Yiadom-Boakye at Tate Britain and an Intro To Elif Shafak
I loved Gloria Naylor’s writing in The Women Of Brewster Place. The type of story telling that makes you feel like your aunt or grandmother is sitting you down telling you about someone’s life RIGHT NOW! Continue reading The Women Of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor: Review
The story feels like South London’s very own. The overground, the tube. The nods to the familiar locales. As always I felt absolutely seen by all the cultural references. From the movies to the books and photography. Continue reading Caleb Azumah Nelson writes a real version of love in Open Water
Girl, Woman, Other (Bernadine Evaristo) and Heart Of The Race: Black Women’s Lives In Britain ( Beverly Bryan, Stella Dadzie, Suzanne Scafe) Continue reading Girl, Woman, Other and Heart Of The Race: Pairing Fiction and Non Fiction
Surge was written by Jay Bernard while they were in residence at The Padmore Institute, an organisation dedicated to radical Black history in Britain. Over this week, I wanted to focus on some non fiction accounts of Black British history and life today. Continue reading Surge by Jay Bernard and remembering the 1981 New Cross Fire
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