Is english we speaking: African/Caribbean dialogue
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Together Apart - Robert Taylor
19 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Photographer Robert Taylor offers a series of fleeting reflections on some of the exquisite paradoxes that characterise the connections between Africa...
Meeting the ogbanje - Claire Adam
18 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Novelist Claire Adam, who grew up in Port of Spain, Trinidad, reflects on African writers who have influenced her own work. Is english we speakin...
Redemption is more than a song - Tendai Huchu
17 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Tendai Huchu remembers the guided tour that opened his eyes to Edinburgh's huge wealth built on the profits of slavery. Is english we speaking: A...
A West Indian in Africa - Philip Nanton
16 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Academic and writer Philip Nanton describes his ascent of Mount Kilimanjaro as a small-island, sea-level Caribbean person. Is english we speaking...
Travelling Lines - Funso Aiyejina
15 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Nigerian playwright, cultural critic and poet Funso Aiyejina asks, after 33 years in the Caribbean, 'How Nigerian am I?' Is english we speaking: ...
Who is ‘the other’ anyway? - Stewart Brown
14 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Stewart Brown on life as a white man teaching and publishing NOW, a literary magazine, in the Caribbean in the 1970s before returning to Birmingham.&n...
What is Africa to me? - Colin Grant
13 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Colin Grant on his limited understanding of Africa and African writing growing up in Luton in the 60s and 70s. Is english we speaking: African/Ca...
A Fine Intuition - Billy Kahora
12 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Billy Kahora, a lecturer in creative writing at Bristol University, is hopeful that the decolonisation of the curriculum will lead to the study of sig...
Snapshots taken along the way - Jane Bryce
11 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Writer and academic Jane Bryce on the space where Carbbean and African literatures exist in a cultural continuum. Is english we speaking: African...