Politics, power and the commonwealth: A review of Paul Ugbede’s ‘Mr. Chairman Sir!’
Paul Ugbede’s Mr. Chairman Sir, couched in the epic theatrical form interrogates the place of politics and power in human relation and the distr
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Five Books for the Yuletide Season
Happy Christmas to all our readers. It has been an incredible year. There have been ups, and there have been downs. We are lucky the Lord has ke
‘To Sir, With Love’ author ER Braithwaite dies aged 104
Author whose autobiographical novel dramatising his time as a black teacher in east London in the 50s had a career that took in social work and diplom
‘Why I love to write about social issues’
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Four writers awarded the Morland writing scholarship
Four writers, Abdul Adan (Somalia) Ayesha Harruna Attah (Ghana), Lidudumalingani Mqombothi (South Africa) and Nigeria’s Nneoma Ike-Njoku have be