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26Jul/17
patience agbabi

Patience Agbabi

26 July 2017Performance, Poetry, Profiles, WritersPatience AgbabiErica Lombard

Poet Patience Agbabi FRSL was born ‘waxing lyrical’ in 1965 in London to Nigerian parents. She was fostered from an early age by white parents in North Wales.
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25Jul/17
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Akala

25 July 2017Non-fiction, Performance, Profiles, WritersAkalaErica Lombard

Akala Biography Writing Since the publication of Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire, Akala has become a prominent commentator on empire and race, both in Britain and globally. WrittenRead More…

21Jul/17
Inua Ellams performing on stage

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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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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19Jul/17
linton kwesi johnson

Linton Kwesi Johnson

19 July 2017Performance, Poetry, Profiles, WritersLinton Kwesi JohnsonErica Lombard

Linton Kwesi Johnson was born in 1952 in Chapelton, a small rural town in Jamaica. He moved to London at the age of 11 to join his mother who had immigrated two years earlier.
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19Jul/17
Anthony Joseph 2016

Anthony Joseph

19 July 2017Fiction, Performance, Poetry, Profiles, WritersAnthony JosephErica Lombard

Anthony Joseph (1966– ) is an unmatched presence in contemporary literature, touted as ‘the leader of the black avant-garde in Britain’ and nominated…
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12Jul/17
A black and white portrait of Roger Robinson performing on-stage as part of King Midas Sound

Roger Robinson

12 July 2017Performance, Poetry, Profiles, WritersRoger RobinsonErica Lombard

Roger Robinson Biography Writing In 2001, Robinson moved from having his poetry printed in a number of influential anthologies – notably, The Fire People (ed. Lemn Sissay, 1998) and The Penguin BookRead More…

11Jul/17
benjamin zephaniah

Benjamin Zephaniah

11 July 2017Drama, Fiction, Performance, Poetry, Profiles, WritersBenjamin ZephaniahErica Lombard

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
regisford hersto rhetoric

D-Empress Dianne Regisford: ‘Hersto-rhetoric? Na so today!!!’

16 January 2017Featured works, Performance, Poetry, Summary, context and historyD-Empress Dianne RegisfordErica Lombard

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…

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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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