Nkenna Akunna caught up with the rising star to talk about her new role as a playwright.
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Bronx Gothic: An exploration of freedom, trauma, and the limits of Black girlhood
Skin Deep’s Nkenna Akunna meets Okwui Okpokwasili, a Nigerian American dancer, choreographer and 2018 MacArthur Genius recipient currently closing the run of her show ‘Bronx Gothic’ at the Young Vic.
How do we map ‘invisible’ cities, and put the lived experiences of the residents at the heart?
Whenever I said that I was from Casablanca people would say ‘Oh, that’s so romantic!’ There is nothing romantic! Every image that exists in the collective imagination about this city comes from the Michael Curtis movie that was not even shot here!
Jay Bernard’s Surge, the process of documenting overlooked Black British history, and the struggles we are yet to overcome
Paying homage to the victims of the New Cross fire in 1981.
Skin Deep meets Yrsa Daley-Ward
The Terrible is a different thing for everybody. It is a shape-shifting thing, it can be whatever the thing is in you that trips you up again and again and again.
Skin Deep meets Vincent Martell, the creator of the unapologetically queer web series: Damaged Goods
“I’m so fucking tired of seeing stories about us from a white lens… I want to continue to create work and make it accessible to my people.”
On Loneliness and Finding Ourselves in Each Other, with Fatimah Asghar
Diasporic loneliness is distinct. It’s an ever-present vibration under the skin, in some moments unremarkable and in others turbulent.
Sonic Transmissions: Moses Boyd
Moses Boyd on the importance of maintaining your independence in creating music and art.
Eugene Ankomah: an artist highlighting the problem of knife crime in the UK through collective community action
We need to talk honestly about the link between austerity and knife crime in the UK.
Hoard, Bim Adewunmi’s love letter to the Black British experience
Bim Adewunmi’s debut play ‘Hoard’ explores the contours of a multi-generational British Nigerian family.