| Following are some
pieces I've written, mainly for the UK press. I'll add to these
when I dig out my old computer!....
Yes, After John Terry, let's talk about Race
('The Observer') July, 2012
Young, Black, Gifted and Confused
(Cover Story, 'Race in
Britain' supplement, 'The Observer') 2nd
September 2001
Urban Cricket: A sort-of memoir
(on cricket as Nature, the game then and now, and the problem with ‘Role Models’...
from '25 X 4: Channel 4 at 25'. Editors: Rosie Boycott and Meredith Etherington-Smith) 2008
Greatest Modern Reads: 'The Catcher in the Rye'
('The Times') 2009
Obama
('African Writing Online') 2008
Pretty Is The New Black
(Dinner Speech on Black-British aesthetics, Howard University) 2006
The
African psyche
('New Statesman') 2005
White Lines: Black folk in Victorian art
('The Guardian') 2005
Guest
of Honour Speech for Zimbabwe's 75 Best Books
(Great Indaba, Harare) 2004
Tribal Britons
('The Guardian') 2004
UK Cricket's decline
('Index on Censorship') 2003
The Dedication Business
('Daily Telegraph') 2000
Diaspora Chic is big in the Academy but not on the streets
('Index on Censorship') 2003
On the new black middle-class
('The Observer') 2002
On
Babyfathers
('The Guardian') 2002
Slovenian
Anthology of New British Writing - Introduction
2004
New Writing - Introduction
(published by Picador) 2003
I Lost My Heart in Durban
('Travel, The Guardian') 2002
Slavery
Q and A
(On Britain's abolition of the slave trade) 2007
Searching for a black face in Eden, England
('The Guardian') 2000
African Literature
('The Times') 2005
Public
Schools
('The Sunday Times') 2003
UK Black Education
('Evening Standard') 2002 / various media
Reviews:
London
Calling, by Sukhdev Sandhu
('The Daily Telegraph') 2003
Books of the Year
('The Observer') 2004
The Map of Love, by Ahdaf Soueif
('The Guardian') 1999
The Atlantic Sound, by Caryl Phillips
('The Times') 2000
The Hip-hop Years, Channel 4
('Black Film Bulletin') 2000
IC3: The Penguin Book of New Black Writing in Britain edited by
Courttia Newland and Kadija Sesay
('The Times') 2000
Papers / Mags I've written for over the years: Every
British national newspaper apart from 'The Sun' and 'The Star'.
Magazines like 'The Face', ‘The Literary Review’, 'the
New Statesman', Index on Censorship'...I was also a columnist at
'New Nation'. Pieces have ranged from cultural essays and think
pieces to reportage and book reviews.
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