Essay extract from ‘Natives: Autobiography and Anti-Racism After Empire’ Dominic Davies For the historian of Black Britain, David Olusoga, Akala’s Natives is not “an easy book to categorise”: “It has been describedRead More…
A personal response to Afropean by a classical archaeologist Lucia Nixon, Wolfson College, Oxford As a classical archaeologist, I take a long view of ‘Europe’. In Afropean, Johny Pitts visits seven countries.Read More…
A close-reading of Anthony Joseph’s ‘Bosch’s Vision’ from Bird Head Son (2009) Christopher J. Griffin The focus of this commentary is on the first poem of Anthony Joseph’s third poetry collection, BirdRead More…
Reflections on Raymond Antrobus’s ‘I Want the Confidence of’ Daniele Nunziata This commentary section features Raymond Antrobus’ poem ‘I Want the Confidence of’ from his collection The Perseverance. The poem explores theRead More…
On 9 June 2020, over a thousand protestors gathered on Oxford’s High Street in front of Oriel College’s statue of Cecil John Rhodes, calling for its removal.
Current Black Lives Matter protests are putting unprecedented pressure on the racial injustices which Black people face in all walks of life in this country and elsewhere.
Noughts + Crosses review Sam Arnon Noughts + Crosses, the TV adaptation of Malorie Blackman’s series of novels, manages brilliantly to transfer Blackman’s sentiments and intentions onto the small screen. In aRead More…
‘It’s Just a Piece of Paper’: How Images of Paper across The Beekeeper of Aleppo Represent Discrimination against Refugees Daniele Nunziata Postcolonial studies and refugee writing are two fields with significant pointsRead More…
No Beautiful Poems about Violence Chelsea Haith Patience Agbabi’s reading from her work at a Writers Make Worlds event in the Oxford English Faculty on 5 December 2019 shook audience preconceptions ofRead More…
Emma Parker discusses several white British authors not typically considered as ‘postcolonial’, but whose work nevertheless addresses the long legacies of empire.