Alexandra Brunjes, “Getting Race-y in the PMAC,” The News: The official student newspaper of Choate Rosemary Hall, Wallingford, Connecticut, January 25, 2014. http://thenews.choate.edu/article/getting-race-y-pmac. |
Africa Utopia: Chi Chi Nwanoku discusses the Chineke! orchestraPosted in Arts, Interviews, Media Archive, United Kingdom, Videos on 2017-03-13 17:39Z by Steven |
Africa Utopia: Chi Chi Nwanoku discusses the Chineke! orchestra
The Evening Standard
London, United Kingdom
2016-09-02
The founder of Britain’s first BME orchestra sat down with [Features Writer] David Ellis to talk classical music, prejudice in the industry and the Southbank Festival
Watch the interview here.
“So my mum was Irish but she’s Trinidadian, and my dad’s Nigerian but he’s Irish.”Posted in Excerpts/Quotes on 2016-11-19 15:11Z by Steven |
[Emma] Dabiri’s own story serves as a typically atypical example. Her mother was born to white Irish parents in Trinidad, where Dabiri’s maternal grandfather worked as a civil engineer. Her father was born to black Nigerian parents in Ireland before moving back to Nigeria, and Dabiri herself was raised in her paternal grandparents’ house in Atlanta, Georgia, before returning to Dublin aged five. In summary? “So my mum was Irish but she’s Trinidadian, and my dad’s Nigerian but he’s Irish,” she laughs.
Ellen E. Jones, “BBC’s Emma Dabiri says her first time in Brixton was like discovering a black utopia,” Evening Standard, November 17, 2016. http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/bbcs-emma-dabiri-says-her-first-time-in-brixton-was-like-discovering-a-black-utopia-a3397851.html.