The Long Wave: How Brazil is celebrating its Black heritage
Hello and welcome to The Long Wave. It was a big week in Brazil, where Black Consciousness Day on 20 November was a public holiday for the first time. I…
Hello and welcome to The Long Wave. It was a big week in Brazil, where Black Consciousness Day on 20 November was a public holiday for the first time. I…
Hello and welcome to The Long Wave. This week, I had a chat with Lauren N Williams, the deputy editor for race and equity at the Guardian US, about the…
Benin City in modern-day Nigeria was once the capital of a bustling kingdom which left a magnificent artistic legacy of plaques and sculpture in cast bronze which were looted by…
Hi everyone. The first thing you’ll notice about this newsletter is that I’m not Nesrine. But don’t worry, we don’t need her to have a good time. I’m Jason, the…
Untitled, 1988 Produced during a career of only six years, Rotimi Fani-Kayode’s photographs are a radical vision of culture, intimacy, desire and pain. Rotimi Fani-Kayode: The Studio – Staging Desire…
Hello and welcome to The Long Wave. I am writing to you fully refreshed following a whole two hours’ sleep after watching the US election. This week, as one Black…
Beirut, Lebanon A bomb dropped from an Israeli jet heading for a building in Ghobeiry, Beirut. In a social media post earlier in the day, the Israeli military warned residents…
In early August 2022, Biyi Bándélé had a conversation with his editor, Hannah Chukwu, about the novel he was working on, Yorùbá Boy Running, after which he sent her a…
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