Nkenna Akunna meets with Aml Ameen and Shantol Jackson to talk about their roles in Idris Elba’s directorial debut, ‘Yardie’.
Category: People
Skin Deep Futures
In looking to the future, Skin Deep platforms grassroots collectives that are working in different ways to uplift their communities.
Breakin’ shit down and workin’ shit out: a dissection of anti-black racism, action and protest in ‘ear for eye’
Nkenna Akunna meets Kayla Meikle to talk about her role in debbie tucker green’s latest production ‘ear for eye’ at the Royal Court, London.
Simi Agbaje is highlighting the minds behind the music
The Producers Edit, an early evening foray into the musical minds of some of the UK’s most talented producers.
“What they know about a black woman soul?” Reflections on Winsome Pinnock’s ‘Leave Taking’
Nkenna Akunna on finding herself in Pinnock’s play Leave Taking, and what it means to be seen in a world built to erase you.
Returning to the London stage, ‘Umuada’ voices unspoken hurt in British Nigerian homes
On writing a play that confronts the nuances of mental health, migration and motherhood in the urban African diaspora.
Loss, laughter and resisting the black universal: Nine Night at the National Theatre
Skin Deep’s Nkenna Akunna meets Roy Alexander Weise to talk about his play Nine Night, currently on at the National Theatre, London.
Media Amnesia: Remembering Somalia After the Fact
When the 24 hour news cycle forgets attacks in the global south, what can we do to keep them at the forefront?
Skin Deep meets the Latin Corner UK
The fight to save a culture. How gentrification is disrupting the lives of hundreds of families in this Latinx community
Being Suedi – Erik Lundin & the changing face of Sweden
Race, belonging and multiculturalism in Sweden – how a rapper’s truthful narrative impacted the lives of these young Swedes.