11Jul/17
Warsan Shire
Warsan Shire is a poet born to Somali parents in Kenya in 1988. When she was only a year old her family migrated to England. She has been described as a ‘refugee poet’…
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11Jul/17
Nikesh Shukla
Nikesh Shukla Biography Writing Shukla is one of the UK’s leading voices on race, diversity, and identity. After reading Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me (2015) and Claudia Rankine’s Citizen (2014),Read More…
11Jul/17
Lemn Sissay
Born in Wigan in 1967 to a mother who moved to Lancashire from Ethiopia the previous year, Sissay was placed directly into foster care and raised by a family…
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11Jul/17
Zadie Smith
Born in London to a Jamaican immigrant mother and English father, Smith (1975– ) has written multi-award winning novels as well as many essays and short stories.
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11Jul/17
Benjamin Zephaniah
The artist and activist Benjamin Zephaniah was born in Birmingham to Caribbean parents. His mother, a Jamaican Windrush immigrant, recalls Zephaniah and his twin sister’s date of birth…
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16Jan/17
D-Empress Dianne Regisford: ‘Hersto-rhetoric? Na so today!!!’
In a series of seven sculptures created by abstract expressionist artiste D-Empress Dianne Regisford, the multi-sensory performance installation, ‘Hersto-rhetoric? Na so today!!!’ is at once an incantation, a lament and an invocationRead More…