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23Jul/17
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Kayo Chingonyi

23 July 2017Poetry, Profiles, WritersKayo ChingonyiErica Lombard

Soft spoken and charming in person, Kayo Chingonyi raises his voice and his political verve in performance. Born in Zambia in 1987, Chingonyi moved to the UK at age six…
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22Jul/17
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Teju Cole

22 July 2017Fiction, Non-fiction, Profiles, WritersTeju ColeErica Lombard

Teju Cole – author, critic, and photographer – was born in 1975 in Kalamazoo, Michigan to Nigerian parents, and raised in Lagos. At the age of 17, he returned…
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22Jul/17
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Selma Dabbagh

22 July 2017Drama, Fiction, Profiles, WritersSelma DabbaghErica Lombard

Selma Dabbagh (1970– ) is a British Palestinian writer currently based in London, but whose fiction is mainly – though not always – set in the contemporary Middle East.
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22Jul/17
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Rana Dasgupta

22 July 2017Fiction, Non-fiction, Profiles, WritersRana DasguptaErica Lombard

Born in Canterbury in 1971, Rana Dasgupta is a British writer whose work deals extensively with global capitalism and its impact on the modern psyche…
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22Jul/17
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Kwame Dawes

22 July 2017Drama, Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry, Profiles, WritersKwame DawesErica Lombard

Kwame Dawes is a poet, critic, editor, playwright, storyteller, broadcaster, actor and musician, born in Ghana and raised in Jamaica. The author of twenty books of poetry…
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22Jul/17
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Reni Eddo-Lodge

22 July 2017Non-fiction, Profiles, WritersReni Eddo-LodgeErica Lombard

Reni Eddo-Lodge (1989– ) is a journalist, podcaster, and author. She was born in London in 1989 to Nigerian parents and raised by her care-worker mother.
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21Jul/17
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Inua Ellams

21 July 2017Drama, Performance, Poetry, Profiles, WritersInua EllamsErica Lombard

Inua Ellams Biography Writing Ellams’s lyricism and cultural references point to influences ranging from Shakespeare’s Hamlet to the intellectual playfulness of Terry Pratchett, with a strong undertow running throughout of Nigerian oralRead More…

21Jul/17
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Diana Evans

21 July 2017Fiction, Profiles, WritersDiana EvansErica Lombard

Diana Evans was born in 1972. Of mixed white British and Nigerian descent, she described herself in a BBC radio interview as ‘a Londoner’, one who has ‘lived in London all her life’.
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21Jul/17
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Bernardine Evaristo

21 July 2017Drama, Fiction, Poetry, Profiles, WritersBernardine EvaristoErica Lombard

Born in London, Bernardine Evaristo (1959– ) studied at Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama and went on to co-found the Theatre of Black Women in 1982.
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21Jul/17
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Caleb Femi

21 July 2017Performance, Poetry, Profiles, WritersCaleb FemiErica Lombard

Caleb Femi (1990– ) is a poet, filmmaker, and photographer. Born in Kano, Nigeria, he moved to London when he was seven years old, settling in Peckham…
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Postcolonial Writers Make Worlds (Principal Investigator: Professor Elleke Boehmer, Postdoctoral Research Fellow: Dr Erica Lombard) is an initiative of the University of Oxford Faculty of English Language and Literature, supported by the John Fell Oxford University Press (OUP) Research Fund.

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