Film and Literature

Ignatius Sancho

Sancho was a writer, composer, shopkeeper and abolitionist.

Jamie Foxx

Jamie Foxx is an American actor, comedian, and singer. In 1991, he joined the cast as a featured player in the sketch comedy show In…

Lupita Nyong’o

Nyong’o began her career working as part of the production crew for several films, including Fernando Meirelles’s The Constant Gardener (2005), Mira Nair’s The Namesake…

Nadifa Mohamed FRSL

Nadifa mohamed featured on Granta magazine’s list Best of Young British Novelists in 2013, and in 2014 on the Africa39 list of writers aged under…

Olaudah Equiano

After he purchased his freedom in 1766, Equiano joined the Sons of Africa, which was an abolitionist group composed of Africans living in Britain.

Patience Agbabi

Agbabi began performing on the London club circuit in 1995 as a member of the performance group Atomic Lip, which was once described as poetry’s…

Tyler Perry

Tyler Perry is an American actor, director, producer and screenwriter. He is popularly known for his role in Madea in which he plays the main…
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