23Jul/17
Kayo Chingonyi
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
Teju Cole
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
Selma Dabbagh
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
Rana Dasgupta
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
Kwame Dawes
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
Reni Eddo-Lodge
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
Inua Ellams
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
Diana Evans
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
Bernardine Evaristo
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
Caleb Femi
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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