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Some things do cheer me up in this crazy world
@sinnersmovie is the only film I have EVER been to see twice in a cinema. I watched it first on a normal screen, and found it to be exquisite, unforgettable and so, so true
then when I read about how Ryan Coogler combined the IMAX and UltraPanavision in a way I don’t think has ever been done before, I decided the only way to pay proper respect to this work of genius was to go back and watch it in IMAX
And then I was asked to host Ryan, @michaelbjordan and @_milescaton_ in conversation @britishfilminstitute and that was probably the easiest yes of the year ☺️
My only regret is that the incomparable @wunmimosaku was not there. I will never tire of her brilliance in life in general and in this film on particular
Black creativity, integrity, and solidarity fills me up and heals my wounds. What a privilege 💫
Dress by @maksuonline
Styling @melwilkinson1
Images @gettyimages
13 Nov 2025
I never, ever imagined writing this.
When we met in Ghana, people refused to accept we were not the same person.
They just could not tell us apart. You from Guyana and me Ghanaian British, looking actually pretty different in my opinion! None of it mattered, we were one.
And we were one. We travelled the world together - look at us here, the Alps, all the way to Germany for Renaissance, NYC, London, Norfolk… we missed flights together - never exchanging even a single angry word.
We raised our girls together, cried, laughed, literally climbed actual mountains together.
When you uncovered your illness, I was convinced we would solve it, like every other problem that came our way. I hoped jollof rice and kpapashitor salmon might help cure you. For a minute, it seemed to work: food, friendship, medicine, rest, love… you were so loved by so many, we all surrounded you, and we could laugh, and hope.
You are gone now, and I have to make sense of a world without you. Your beauty, your light, your kindness, your vision for a better future. Not just for us. Not just for our girls. For every black girl - this was the work to which you devoted your life.
I love you. I admire you. I miss you. I grieve for you. I laugh for you. I will never stop thinking of you.
Rest in power Feyi ✨
26 Oct 2025
Announcing!
Academy Award nominee and BAFTA Award winner @wunmimosaku joins Swim Sistas as Executive Producer 🌊
Speaking about the film, Wunmi shared: “The story of our relationship with swimming and water has so much depth and history, complexity that is so beautifully captured by Swim Sistas. This powerful film and its themes speak personally to me, as I know it does many others, and I could not be more excited to join as Executive Producer.”
So proud to be an EP on this magical film with my company @borninme and co-producer Amandla Crichlow supporting its journey, from its origins in @catherinejoywhite powerful vision, and her desire to celebrate Black women in the water, honouring the stories that came before us, inspiring a future generation and promising new chapters.
Beyond excited to welcome Wunmi to this project, championing this story, joining the incredible women onboard, @naomieharris who narrates, and swimmers @alicedearingx @roni.bruno @jasmine.boatswain @lexiesandiford
And of course the force of nature and creativity that is its writer, director and creator @catherinejoywhite
@variety ✨
05 Nov 2026
What did Benjamin Zephaniah mean to me?
He was our Northstar of creativity, truth talking, relentless humanity, the joyful chaos of art
He overcame every kind of obstacle imaginable for a young black man growing up in Britain and yet somehow made that experience relatable for everyone
He hated war, the killing of innocent people already oppressed, the complacency that comes with following the media or assimilating into the establishment without question
It was a privilege to give the 2nd annual Benjamin Zephaniah lecture at the University of Birmingham
Alongside some breathtakingly talented young poets @ayanmoaden Zarah Alam @casey_bailey
Thank you Alex Johl and Joy Warmington, who made it such a special event.
@tv_trev for the photos
Wearing @sikadesigns 👗
And to Birmingham for showing up, wow!
05 Nov 2026
“He was the worst **** dealer ever!” We’ve just kicked off a deep dive series on #tupac and you can listen to episode 1!
#tupacshakur #tupacquotes #rap #raphistory
04 Nov 2026
Reparations is not a debate, it’s the only thing that makes sense *according to the values Britain purports to have*
Reposting this essay I wrote a while back for @amnestyuk on Progressive Foreign Policy. Because this same “debate” has been going round and round my whole life time and every generation before that since enslaved people rose up and fought for liberation
Images:
1. Kwame Akoto-Bamfo, sculptures dedicated to our enslaved ancestors @osramba_media
2. Redemption Song, Emancipation Park, Jamaica by Laura Facey
3. Monument to the martyrs of the 1823 revolt in Demerara, Guyana
4. Emancipation plaque, Georgetown, Guyana
5. Kwame Akoto-Bamfo
6. Yinka Shonibare @yinkashonibarefoundation Suspended States
I realised I have had the privilege to travel all over the world where black people were colonised and enslaved and see so many of the ways we have depicted this struggle with grace and dignity…
maybe I will write a whole thing about that. If you’d like me to lmk ✨
(Link to essay in bio)
02 Nov 2026
I will carry this book wherever I go forever more
We live in a world that is sick with oppression, but we have black liberationists, to remind us who we are supposed to be.
This book resonates with me on so many levels
Rejecting the social conditioning that tells us to create art for its own sake
The way some of us have an abusive relationship with music… Saul Williams describes the exact moment he realised hip hop had fallen, infiltrated with the forces that seek to destroy all our conscious movements. “Entertainment” that zombifies. And it was a song I loved sooo much when it came out 🫣
The importance of trip hop! Of Brazil. (Big up @vempraflup !)
Of Amiri Bakara, Assata Shakur, Kwame Ture, Nikki Giovanni, and Paul Robeson…
Paul Robeson, who changed my life when I read his biography age 15, how he was demonised and smeared so that we would not engage with his message, such as:
Every artist, every scientist, must decide NOW where he stands. He has no alternative. There is no standing above the conflict on Olympian heights.
There are no impartial observers.
The artist must take sides
Thank you @saulwilliams 🙏🏽
Songs My Mother Taught Me
WHY THE ARTIST MUST TAKE SIDES
@haymarketbooks
31 Oct 2026
NEWS: We’ve got a very special event coming up on 16 November at King’s Place in London, when Peter and Afua will be joined live on stage by the wonderful @shafakelif to talk about her extraordinary new novel, In One Brief Moment All Eternity.
It’s a book about Gustave Flaubert, the creator of Madame Bovary — but told through the eyes of the women whose lives shaped his, and whose stories have largely been forgotten. It’s about who gets to tell history, whose voices are silenced, and why literature matters, especially in times of turmoil.
You can click the link in bio for tickets!
#legacy #history
27 Oct 2026
Climbing a 5000 ft live volcano in the middle of the night seemed like the ideal ritual to embody our writers’ transformation after a week of peaceful writing retreat 👀😅
It was harder than we thought!
And also more magical ✨
@writers.portal
23 Oct 2026
Afua Hirsch asks Britain, and the rest of us, to look again at the stories we were taught.
A British-Ghanaian journalist with 30 years’ experience and bestselling author of four books, including Brit(ish), winner of the Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Prize, and Decolonising My Body (2025). She comes to Ubud this October.
Hirsch knows that awareness starts with questioning the history we inherited.
Which part of your history were you never taught at school?
🔗 Join us 21–25 October in Ubud. More details in bio.
🎟️ Get your Festival Pass at
ubudwritersfestival.com/tickets (or link in bio).
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Afua Hirsch mengajak Inggris, dan kita semua, untuk menengok kembali kisah-kisah yang diajarkan kepada kita.
Jurnalis Inggris-Ghana dengan pengalaman 30 tahun dan penulis empat buku laris, termasuk Brit(ish), pemenang Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Prize, dan Decolonising My Body (2025). Ia hadir di Ubud Oktober ini.
Hirsch percaya bahwa kesadaran dimulai dari mempertanyakan sejarah yang kita warisi.
Bagian mana dari sejarahmu yang tak pernah diajarkan di sekolah?
🔗 Bergabunglah bersama kami pada 21–25 Oktober di Ubud. Info lengkap di bio.
🎟️ Dapatkan Festival Pass Anda di
ubudwritersfestival.com/tickets (atau link di bio).
21 Oct 2026
Trump is further away than ever to winning the Nobel Peace Prize. #Trump #NobelPrize #GlobalPolitics #USA #DonaldTrump
18 Oct 2026
Please watch share & subscribe @nobelprize @nobelpeacecenter Prize winner Navi Pillay speaks to @senoritaramita @karimalishah @basementfilms2 about why her UN Commission found that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza - and how the UK failed to react to it and other warnings from the @cij_icj
Link to watch in bio.
17 Oct 2026
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