'My Windrush generation father put me before his passions, now I want to repay him in my writing' 🔵 It’s thanks to those foundations laid by my parents that my first play for children is on a 26-date nationwide tour throughout Black History Month
My Windrush generation father put me before his passions – now I want to repay him in my writing
Many of the 71,000 women who made the journey were sought after to train as nurses, but given menial tasks and subjected to. Almost half of the 90,000 Caribbean-born men who had settled in England and Wales by 1961 came from highly-skilled backgrounds, but were only able to find work in jobs considered “undesirable” by local people.
However, my dad was – is – an incredibly gifted storyteller and lover of poetry. He saved his creative talents for the evenings, when he would enthral us with his classic tales of the wily Anansi, part-human, part-spider. Cunning as they come, Anansi is able to outsmart the most powerful of foes. The stories, which originated as an oral tradition in West Africa, travelled to the Caribbean via enslaved people.
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