Between Starshine and Clay
Conversations from the African Diaspora
by Sarah Ladipo Manyika
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Pub Date 31 Jan 2023 | Archive Date 28 Jul 2023
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Description
WITH A FOREWORD FROM BERNARDINE EVARISTO
In a series of incisive and intimate encounters Sarah Ladipo Manyika introduces some of the most distinguished Black thinkers of our times, including Nobel Laureates Toni Morrison and Wole Soyinka, and civic leaders first lady Michelle Obama and Senator Cory Booker.
She searches for truth with poet Claudia Rankine and historian Henry Louis Gates, Jr. She discusses race and gender with South African filmmaker Xoliswa Sithole and American actor and playwright Anna Deavere Smith. She interrogates the world around us with pioneering publisher Margaret Busby, parliamentarian Lord Michael Hastings and civil rights activist Pastor Evan Mawarire – who dared to take on President Robert Mugabe and has lived to tell the tale. We also meet the living embodiment of the many threads, ideas and histories in this book through the profile of her fabulous 102-year-old friend, Mrs Willard Harris.
In journeys that book-end the collection, Sarah Ladipo Manyika reflects on her own experience of being seen as ‘oyinbo’ in Nigeria, African in England, Arab in France, coloured in Southern Africa and Black in America, while feeling the least Black and most human among her fellow travellers, explorers all, against the sharp white relief of the South Pole
Advance Praise
"What draws me to this work is what inspired it: A desire to bring Black voices from the African diaspora to the foreground. And Sarah Ladipo Manyika has assembled her subjects very carefully; each person in this book indeed conveys the power, strength and sheer diversity of the African diaspora. This is a one-of-a-kind book, a necessary and important one." -- Delroy Lindo
“Even though Sarah Ladipo Manyika’s medium is language, to read her Starshine and Clay is like seeing an animator at work. Little by little, we see her subjects taking shape, and then, with a sudden blink, we are being invited to participate in choices made, joys, regrets, and lives fully lived. A lesson in magic from Manyika’s writing." -- Ato Quayson
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781804440087 |
| PRICE | CA$34.00 (CAD) |
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Featured Reviews
Amyn B, Reviewer
How else can I talk about this gift of a book? I feel so enriched after reading this and I immediately placed an order for a physical copy because this is a book that deserves to be owned.
Ocean (, Reviewer
Such a concentrated amount of black excellence in this book! This is a wonderful set of interviews of some of the most influential contemporary black people, divided in three, creators, curators and changemakers. From Toni Morrison and Michelle Obama to Henry Louis Gates Jr and many others more, the selection is exquisite, the questions asked always relevent and the book perfectly edited. I found it fascinating to learn more about all these people's upbringing and how they came to do what they do best for a living but also to read about how they perceive themselves and their blackness in our current world.
I was lucky enough to be sent this Arc by Netgalley and Footnote press but I absolutely want to purchase a copy when the book comes out in October this year as I found it so inspiring!
Very timely, I highly recommend.
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