When I sit down with Emma Dabiri in her home in east London, I am fan-girling just a little. I finished her book Don’t Touch My Hair a few weeks before meeting, and I was blown away by the incredible ...

BBC Radio 4's Rethink series asks participants to share their thoughts on how the world should change in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. In her essay, author Emma Dabiri looks back at the ...

Emma Dabiri is a busy woman. The best-selling author, academic, and broadcaster is expertly multitasking — popping lunch on the stove while taking care of her 18-month-old son, joyfully gurgling in ...

‘I was talking to a friend the other day who’s also Irish,” says writer, broadcaster and academic Emma Dabiri down the phone from her UK home, “and we were saying how mad it was that in Ireland when I ...

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"Originally published as "Don't Touch My Hair" in the United Kingdom in 2019 by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Random House UK"--Title page verso Despite increasingly liberal world views, Black ...

Ah, school picture day. That fateful day each school year when your image would be immortalised forever, whether your smile was less than photogenic, or your uniform less than pristine. It is hardly ...

Emma Dabiri is an Irish-Nigerian academic and broadcaster, who grew up in Dublin. Her debut book is the sensational Don't Touch My Hair, (released today, 2nd May 2019) a non-fiction meld of ...

Actor Niamh Algar and writer Emma Dabiri are two rising stars to watch in 2019, according to The Observer’s annual list. An Irish writer/scholar and an Irish actor have been named to British newspaper ...

On a bone-numbingly cold winter’s day, I made my way on the Tube from east to south London, to the Black Cultural Archives in Brixton, to do research for my 2019 book, Don’t Touch My Hair. Emerging ...

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