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Thread #122094 Message #2673274
Posted By: Bonnie Shaljean
06-Jul-09 - 06:09 PM
Thread Name: BS: Seeking Information About Black Britons
Subject: RE: BS: Seeking Information About Black Britons
Azizi, have you read Black Gold of the Sun: Searching for Home in England and Africa by Ekow Eshun? He's one of the best social commentators/critics out there, and is currently the director of the ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts) in London. He's often on the BBC and other TV/radio programmes (I was just listening to him on Radio 4 a few hours ago) and if you Google him you'll get a million hits, which say everything better than I can.
Wikipedia and Amazon.co.uk (the British site) are good places to start, but he also has a blog on the ICA website, and Untold London has a video clip of him talking about his book. Anytime he has anything to say, I stop and listen.