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‘The story enraged me’ – an interview with Deborah Roberts
The US artist reflects on her Child Q collage She used to work in a shoe-shop but her work now sells for huge sums and is collected by big museums and Beyoncé. The African American explains why she tackled the shocking strip-search of a 15-year-old girl in a London school
Read MoreWheel and Come Again
“Wheel and come again” is how Ethlyn once described this circular migration, back and forth from the island, from somewhere to elsewhere, to turn around and start all over again.
Read MoreJohn Akomfrah on Stuart Hall
The artist is revisiting his three-screen film about the legendary thinker and activist, which takes in jazz, Vietnam, and the family trauma that haunted Hall
Read MoreA Country Out of Control
In Wole Soyinka’s laceratingly satirical new novel, Nigeria has lost its way and is inured to corruption and violence.
Read MoreAn Olive Grove in Ends by Moses McKenzie review – an impressive debut
A young man struggles to escape a life of violent crime in this gritty fable about love, faith and redemption
Read MoreCLR James: The black bohemian
CLR James’s writings on empire and cricket were marked by moral clarity and mischievous provocation
Read MoreYou Don’t Know Us Negroes by Zora Neale Hurston review – fearless and dazzling essays
The pioneering African American writer’s nonfiction pieces have a power, depth and courage that still resonate more than 60 years after her death
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