Close reading of Monica Ali’s Brick Lane C. S. Bhagya Brick Lane is a novel whose events span decades and wide geographical distances. The narrative focus shifts from Mymensingh District, East PakistanRead More…
Close reading of Inua Ellams’s ‘Fuck / Tupac’ from The Actual Chelsea Haith In this short essay we take a closer look at how Ellams’s verse integrates contemporary cultural references and largerRead More…
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…
Talking Afropean: Johny Pitts in conversation with Elleke Boehmer and Simukai Chigudu This Writers Make Worlds and TORCH panel discussion was streamed live on 22 October 2020. It featured the author JohnyRead 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…
An Interview with Raymond Antrobus Daniele Nunziata In this interview, Raymond Antrobus speaks about the relationship between literature and education, as well as the impact of family, mental health, immigration, and spiritualityRead 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.