E.D Adegoke – The Age of Dreams
What is your starting point for painting? Is it a mood, gesture, composition or glance? When I started this series […]
Interview
Interview
The Chibok Girls: Novelist Helon Habila’s Tells The Story of Those Kidnapped by Boko Haram
We keep calling them ‘Chibok Girls’ but they’re from different towns” says novelist and journalist, Helon Habila, of the 217
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I Have A Problem With Big Narstie’s Big Black Clown Routine
Samsung’s advert for its latest product, the “S9,” is an uneasy mix of clever and daft. In it, the grime
Theater
Bringing black British histories to the theatre: an interview with Dawn Walton
The Artistic Director of Eclipse Theatre Company talks about the Arts Council-funded project Revolution Mix, and reflects on her eighteen
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Interview with Lucian Msamati, the first Black Iago at the Royal Shakespeare Company
One thing that tends to never change in past iterations of Othello are the central roles: Othello, the Black or
Theater
Phosphorus Theatre’s Pizza Shop Heroes is their latest production to feature refugees and asylum seekers among the cast
The hot topics of immigration and integration reaches new levels of urgency in Pizza Shop Heroes, the third play by
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Boi Boi is Dead, Watford Palace Theatre
A formidable stage actor in his own right, Lucian Masmati directs debut playwright Zodwa Nyoni’s Boi Boi is Dead, a
Theater
Othello at Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-Upon-Avon
How on earth can Iago be Black? It took generations before Othello himself was played by Black actors and now
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Arinze Kene’s Misty at Trafalgar Studios London
A standing ovation on press night is not a common feature in London’s theatre world. But it seemed like the
Interview
Petina Gappah, author of “The Book of Memory,”
Debut novelists are not renowned for having an assured voice. For the gifted and fortunate, more often than not, the