Archive for January, 2010
Proud to be a woman Creativity at its best Likeness of love She celebrates herself Her feminity Her sexuality Her sensuality She celebrates her needs and desires in anticipation of fulfilment She celebrates her feelings and knowledge of her body And she celebrates her sensuality Proud to be a woman A woman with needs and [...]
In the final of my three part interview series about Wasafiri, meet Susheila Nasta. Susheila Nasta is the Editor of Wasafiri, the internationally distinguished literary magazine, which she founded in 1984 at a time when there were few publications which featured the work of writers from African, Caribbean, South Asian and Black British diasporic backgrounds. [...]
Kiran Desai is an Indian-born novelist and the author of The Inheritance Of Loss, which won the 2006, Man Booker Prize. I met her in 2009, at the 25th anniversary celebration of Wasafiri, a literary magazine and this is what she had to say about the magazine and the publishing world. Belinda: Have you ever [...]
When I wrote Black, Sexual, Sensual and Spiritual, in 2006, I was hopeful that one day in the near future, there will be less naked women in rap videos. I was sure that the drive to stamp it out by outspoken leaders, men and women, will make music executives and the artists themselves think differently [...]
Yaba Badoe’s first novel, True Murder tells the story of Ajuba Benson, a pre-adolescent girl who is disturbed due to her family background in Ghana. Ajuba finds herself in the world of Polly Venus, an Anglo-American who is defiant and everything Ajuba is not. Their world soon collides with grave consequences which leaves Ajuba with [...]
Adelaide Damoah’s work has been described as a stroke of genius and critics say she is the one to watch. Her exhibitions and series of work to date include Supermodels, Black Brits, Black Lipstick and Abstract. I interviewed Damoah, pictured below, for NEXT newspaper a little while back and she told me about her passion [...]
We all woke up to the devastating effect of the Indian Tsunami of 26 December 2004, which killed nearly 250,000. Back then, it one of the worst things I had ever seen on television. To see people cry regardless of who was watching, even grown men was pretty disheartening. It was bad enough that they lost [...]
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