Dispatches from the Diaspora: From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter

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We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor “Gary Younge has borne witness to some of the most critical events in the black diaspora in recent times with an honest and humane eye.

Covering three decades of unparalleled reporting throughout the Black diaspora, this catalog of electrifying yet nuanced dispatches puts readers at the heart of the action, guiding them through world-shaking events, introducing them at first-hand to key players, and solidifying Younge’s standing as one of the most important political journalists of his generation. He has written six books including Dispatches From the Diaspora, From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter; The Speech, The Story Behind Martin Luther King’s Dream; Who Are We?Gary Younge is an award-winning author, broadcaster and a professor of sociology at the University of Manchester. Between following Nelson Mandela during his first election campaign in South Africa and reflecting on a journey to Barbados to bury his mother, Gary Younge here interviews major figures including Angela Davis, Maya Angelou, Desmond Tutu, and the Grime artist Stormzy. Being seen only as the thing that makes you different through the lens of those with the power to make that difference matter really is limiting.

Formerly a columnist and an editor-at-large at the Guardian, he isan editorial board member of The Nation magazine. The Migration Museum explores how the movement of people to and from Britain across the ages has made us who we are – as individuals and as a nation. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. This book draws on my journalism from or about the African diaspora, including the Caribbean, Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone and Europe, as well as Britain and the US.Faber Members get access to live and online author events and receive regular e-newsletters with book previews, promotional offers, articles and quizzes. Dispatches from the Diaspora brings together the vibrant journalism of one of the leading Black voices spanning the Atlantic, providing a must-read for anyone interested in the way we understand contemporary issues of race and identity. From Nobel Laureates Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter to theatre greats Tom Stoppard and Alan Bennett to rising stars Polly Stenham and Florian Zeller, Faber Drama presents the very best theatre has to offer. Granta, GQ, The Financial Times and The New Statesman and made several radio and television documentaries on subjects ranging from gay marriage to Brexit.

A fear of being ‘pigeon-holed’ is one of the most common crippling anxieties of any minority in any profession. This advice, which came from older white journalists (pretty much the only older journalists available when I started out), was rarely malicious.Covering three decades of unparalleled reporting throughout the Black diaspora, this catalog of electrifying yet nuanced dispatches puts readers at the heart of the action, guiding them through world-shaking events, introducing them at first-hand to key players, and solidifying Younge's standing as one of the most important political journalists of his generation. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

After several years of reporting from all over Europe, Africa, the US and the Caribbean Gary was appointed The Guardian’s New York correspondent in 2003. He is currently the Director, Special Projects at the African Foundation for Development (AFFORD), an international organisation that aims to expand and enhance the contributions the African diaspora make to African development.Gary has made several radio and television documentaries on subjects ranging from the tea party to hip hop culture. Dispatches from the Diaspora is a collection of extraordinary range that exemplifies Younge's gift to his readers over the years – a journalism that is sober and clear eyed, but always undergirded by optimism and faith in humanity. Dispatches from the Diaspora is an unrivalled body of work from a unique perspective that takes you to the frontlines and compels you to engage and to 'imagine a world in which you might thrive, for which there is no evidence.