Inside: Issue 14
Black Books Review: The Long Song | Red
The Long Song
by Andrea Levy
Headline; 312 pp; £20.95
Andrea Levy’s novels from the tentative Every Light in the House Burnin’ to the accomplished Small Island have demonstrated a clear progression of her story-telling ability With The Long Song Levy’s writing has matured enough for her to tell the story of a horrendous time within black history [...]
Inside: Issue 12, The Vault
Book reviews: Maas Roy – Until Judgement Comes
Life According to Maas Roy
by Yvonne Archer & Stanley Roy Archer
www.ourpeaceofhistory.com
Life According to Maas Roy charts the life of Stanley Roy Archer, who journeyed across the globe in 1954. Archer’s stories cover his time working in England, his deployment into the Royal Artillery, and his military service in the Cypriot civil war. It is aimed [...]
Inside: Issue 9, The Vault
I want to read more…
5 great books to put on your list! 2009 has been a good year for literature from authors of African descent. We’re reviewed some of the best of the crop. So if your new year’s resolution is to read more this year, you won’t find a better place to start.
On Black Sisters’ Street by Chika [...]
Inside: Issue 11, The Vault
Spotlight on: Poet Inua Ellams
With his play The 14th Tale being picked up at the National Theatre, Inua Ellams met up with Catch a Vibe to talk about poetry and his numerous projects.
Catch a Vibe: When did you decide to become a Poet?
Inua Ellams: I didn’t decide to become a poet. It was by accident. I wrote a poem [...]
Inside: Issue 8, The Vault
Beautiful Books
Our selection of 5 books to offer or expose on your coffee table!
Tags: article, Books & Spoken WordInside: Issue 7, The Vault
Precious: review of the cult novel by Sapphire
The novel Push, by Sapphire over the years has taken its place as a Womanist novel, according to Alice Walker’s definition of feminism for women of colour.
Tags: article, Books & Spoken WordInside: Issue 6, The Vault
Black Is Beautiful
“Beauty is a power. And the struggle to have the entire range of Black beauty recognised and respected is a serious one.”
Tags: article, Arts & Heritage, Books & Spoken WordInside: The Vault
Tail of a Blue Bird by Nii Ayikwei Parkes
The success of Alexander McCall Smith’s lady detective series suggests that there is an African market for detective fiction, and Tail of the Blue Bird sets the genre in the west of the continent. The Ghanaian novel follows Kayo (a forensic pathologist) from Accra into the village of Sonokrom to undertake an investigation. The novel’s [...]
Tags: Books & Spoken Word, featureInside: Issue 5, The Vault
Prisoners in their sordid world
On Black Sisters’ Street tells the story of four women, Ama, Efe, Joyce and Sisi, black Nigerian immigrant prostitutes, working in Antwerp, Belgium.
Tags: article, Books & Spoken WordInside: Issue 5, The Vault
Black Comic Book Superheroes Exhibition at Swiss Cottage Library (until 6 Nov)
The exhibition at the Swiss Cottage Library spanned a hundred years of black comic superheroes in one small room off of the main library.
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