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Tag Archives: Black Women

Una Marson

13 December
London Calling by Una Marson play excerpt directed by Ayesha Casely-Hayford

Una Marson: Feminist, activist. Thinker, nationalist. Broadcaster, producer, editor. Writer in Jamaica and England, across the 20s to the 60s of the 20th century she wrote columns, features, reports, poems, manifestos, radio programmes – plays. She edited and published journals, produced culture, and she was the first black radio producer to be employed by the BBC. Via […]

Wandsworth Radio

03 March
A young black woman in a radio studio with a big microphone in front of her face.

On 2nd March 2018, Wandsworth Radio welcomed Afro Archives as part of its launch of “Female Friday”. It was the beginning of Afro Archives on Air You can read the transcript here and have a listen too “Female Friday”: is now on every Friday at WandsworthRadio.com Afro Archives is scheduled at 3pm to 4pm I […]

My Fro & Me: Hair Stories from Women of Colour

02 December
Afro Archives A Performer's World By Ayesha Casely-Hayford

Hair Stories On 28th November 2017 “My Fro & Me”  –  Hair Stories from Women of Colour  – was at The National Theatre, London, UK. We talked hair, culture, identity, Eurocentric ideals of beauty on our stage and screens, and discrimination. Endlessly Afro. “The prime responsibility of the theatre is to show a culture its […]

Afro Archives | About

01 February
Ayesha Casely-Hayford and India Ria Amarteifio

Hair is a surprisingly powerful thing. It can delight us. Empower us. Completely and utterly frustrate us. It can tell others what to think of us, without saying a word. Due to the endless possibilities of hair, and the politics, Afro Archives was born.  The Afro Archives project is about heritage and identity within UK society. It […]