Charleston Festival 16th-27th May

It's the last few days of the Charleston Festival! I went to this talk today, on African history and how it is being reclaimed by people of colour who live on the continent of Africa or whose ancestors did. The panel did a great job in going behind the stereotypes (i.e. poverty and deserts.)This is what the Charleston website said: Zeinab Badawi, award-winning TV presenter and documentarian, will discuss her book ‘An African History of Africa’ which seeks to redress this imbalance. She is joined by Nigerian novelist Ayòbámi Adébáyó, whose first two prize-nominated novels have been praised for shining a light on Nigerian life, and Dipo Faloyin, senior editor at VICE and author of ‘Africa is not a Country’.

I recently read a book about the Windrush legacy, not realising that it was written in 1998 twenty years before the scandal (when our government started repatriating people who couldn't find proof of their right to stay here, after they had been living here legally for over 40 years.)