In Search of Black History with Bonnie Greer
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In Search of Black History with Bonnie Greer
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In Search Of Black History with Bonnie Greer brings you face-to-face with the people you never knew existed. People whose stories tell us a different tale about who we all are. From the earliest glimmerings of modern humanity, up to the present day, Bonnie Greer uncovers the lives of people of African descent that don't fit with the accepted history of Western Civilisation we've traditionally been taught. From saints, to philosophers, to warrior women and king's heralds - these people's lives have been lost, hidden and distorted down the centuries. We've lost the full richness and complexity of our shared histories - it's time to fill in the gaps.
In this eight part series, playwright and former Trustee of the British Museum, Bonnie Greer, travels with us through the ages, meeting the academics and experts who are uncovering these stories at the cutting edge of historical research, and she brings their subjects' lives to life - with an imaginative re-telling of their stories.
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By Bonnie Greer
When I recorded the first volume of my autobiography, A Parallel Life for Audible last year it was an emotional experience - to feel, from a distance, my own continued and ongoing fight against erasure of memory and therefore of truth. Black History Month is not just about history, it's about how history creates the now. Let's not erase or try to hide our history, let's talk about it. All of it: the good; the bad; the ambiguous; the transcendent. My history is the History of Africa, the History of Europe, the History of America and the History of Britain. I am all of these things. I am on both sides of every story.
Four things have helped me to have a kind of reclamation within myself (although it is an ongoing process): books; art; music; and the two million years of human history that is the British Museum. These things - and others - allow me to hold multiple perspectives; which is the only way, I have found, of being myself. Of being a Black Woman. Of being a Human Being.
Black and British
Black British history has been whitewashed,
Olusoga reminded us in his 2016 BBC series. This listen is an important journey into the histories of Britons with black skin and white skin, how they come together and how they come apart. In this year of BLM and Brexit we ask again and again, what is it to be 'British' and what is it be 'Black'.
Black Tudors
'Race' is not a scientific category per se. It is a social construct and real because of that. 'Race' was rewritten in order to condone, accommodate and promote the transatlantic slave trade. But people of African descent often transcended this...went further. People of African descent have always been a part of the European story. This audiobook shows you how integral they were.
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Walter Rodney was a brilliant Guyanese historian, academic and activist. He was assassinated in 1980. A scholar and teacher at SOAS, University of London, University of the West Indies, and University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, his work looks at the intricate relationship between Europe and Africa, and how each made each other what they are today. This edition was published in 2018 with a foreword by Angela Davis, explaining how Walter Rodney's Caribbean, African, European perspective can give us a framework to discuss the post-colonial world today. The work of Walter Rodney is key to what is called postcolonial studies.
The Famished Road
Ben Okri's beautiful Booker Prize-winning novel reminds us that any difficult history can only be confronted when the transformative power of wonder is felt in the same breath as the pain of loss. A masterpiece informed by Ben Okri’s own experiences of England and Nigeria.
Invisible Man
As seen in the Barak Obama biopic Barry, this book is like a piece of music. Let go and listen to a jazz riff in words, about a Black man who lives underground, who gets scapegoated, becomes the fall guy, finds purpose and disillusionment in a time and culture in some ways different and in some ways similar to our own. This book will teach you how to listen to books with a different kind of ear.
Girl, Woman, Other
As well as Black History Month, October is home to Hate Crime Awareness week. Bernadine Evaristo's brilliant Booker Prize-winner, in addition to being a work of art, explores the intersectionality of race, gender, age and sexuality to help us think about how the issues which underlie BLM affect us all in very personal ways, no matter the colour of our skin.
Couldn't get enough. Well voiced, well paced.
Planning to listen again, now.
What an eye opener! Great!
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Absolutely brilliant
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The lost souls of history come to life .
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Thank you for shining a light on the slave resistance.
The labour and abuse of slaves to build cities. Uncovering the hidden stories and moving away from the narrative perpetuated by the film industry to tell only a story of slaves working on plantations in the south.
West Africans attempts to capture ships and free enslaved peoples.
"The story starts to make *more* sense"
The episodes are a discovery, some of the information you will be familiar others may be new. Worth a listen!
Five stars are credited to the Revolt chapter
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Brilliant a fantastic and fascinating book.
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