Tag: David Olusoga

  • Britain’s black history has been shamefully whitewashed The Spectator 2017-01-14 Hakim Adi, Professor of the History of Africa and the African Diaspora University of Chichester, Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom Author David Olusoga (Photo: Getty) I have been researching and writing about black British history for over 30 years but never before have I been…

  • David Olusoga: ‘There’s a dark side to British history, and we saw a flash of it this summer’ The Guardian 2016-11-04 Arifa Akbar ‘People used to shout “Go back to Africa” at us’ … David Olusoga. Photograph: Martin Godwin for the Guardian The writer and broadcaster on reassessing black history and the fallout from the…

  • Black and British by David Olusoga review – reclaiming a lost past The Guardian 2016-11-17 Colin Grant David Olusoga at St Michael’s Church, Burgh-by-Sands. Photograph: Des Willie/BBC/Des Willie Olusoga’s insightful ‘forgotten history’ amounts to much more than a text to accompany a TV series. Yet despite its many attributes, is it too temperate? How do…

  • Black and British: A Forgotten History Pan Macmillan 2016-11-03 624 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-1447299738 Ebook ISBN: 978-1447299745 Digital Audio ISBN: 978-1509837113 David Olusoga A vital re-examination of a shared history, published to accompany the landmark BBC Two series. In Black and British, award-winning historian and broadcaster David Olusoga offers readers a rich and revealing exploration of…

  • The reality of being black in today’s Britain The Guardian 2016-10-29 David Olusoga David Olusoga at El Mina, a Portuguese-built fort in Ghana. ‘Many black British people, and their white and mixed-race family members, slipped into a siege mentality.’ Photograph: BBC David Olusoga grew up amid racism in Britain in the 70s and 80s. Now,…