Author: Nkenna Akunna
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Skin Deep Meets
Representing the Black Diaspora: Aml Ameen and Shantol Jackson on the importance of Idris Elba’s ‘Yardie’
Representing the Black Diaspora: Aml Ameen and Shantol Jackson on the importance of Idris Elba’s ‘Yardie’
Nkenna Akunna meets with Aml Ameen and Shantol Jackson to talk about their roles in Idris Elba's directorial debut, 'Yardie'.
People
Breakin’ shit down and workin’ shit out: a dissection of anti-black racism, action and protest in ‘ear for eye’
Breakin’ shit down and workin’ shit out: a dissection of anti-black racism, action and protest in ‘ear for eye’
Nkenna Akunna meets Kayla Meikle to talk about her role in debbie tucker green's latest production 'ear for eye' at the Royal Court, London.
Skin Deep Meets
Skin Deep meets filmmaker hajooj kuka
Skin Deep meets filmmaker hajooj kuka
Nkenna Akunna chats to filmmaker hajooj kuka about making his film aKasha and telling stories of joy, war, love and rebellion.
Skin Deep Meets
Skin Deep meets Arinzé Kene
Skin Deep meets Arinzé Kene
Nkenna Akunna meets Arinzé Kene, the second black British playwright in history to have a West End open. They chat Misty, telling truthful stories of black masculinity, and how he is exploding conventional methods of theatre-making.
People
Simi Agbaje is highlighting the minds behind the music
Simi Agbaje is highlighting the minds behind the music
The Producers Edit, an early evening foray into the musical minds of some of the UK’s most talented producers.
People
“What they know about a black woman soul?” Reflections on Winsome Pinnock’s Leave Taking
“What they know about a black woman soul?” Reflections on Winsome Pinnock’s Leave Taking
Nkenna Akunna on finding herself in Pinnock's play Leave Taking, and what it means to be seen in a world built to erase you.
People
Returning to the London stage, ‘Umuada’ voices unspoken hurt in British Nigerian homes
Returning to the London stage, ‘Umuada’ voices unspoken hurt in British Nigerian homes
On writing a play that confronts the nuances of mental health, migration and motherhood in the urban African diaspora.
Art
In conversation with Last Yearz Interesting Negro
In conversation with Last Yearz Interesting Negro
Our Skin Deep resident reviewer Nkenna Akunna spoke to performance artist Jamila Johnson Small.
Activism
Cultivating the everyday #BlackGirlMagic: The Year of the Rooster Monk at the Pleasance Theatre
Cultivating the everyday #BlackGirlMagic: The Year of the Rooster Monk at the Pleasance Theatre
Nkenna Akunna sits down with Giselle Gant and Nathalie Adlam to chat about The Year of the Rooster Monk at the Pleasance Theatre.
People
Loss, laughter and resisting the black universal: Nine Night at the National Theatre
Loss, laughter and resisting the black universal: Nine Night at the National Theatre
Skin Deep's Nkenna Akunna meets Roy Alexander Weise to talk about his play Nine Night, currently on at the National Theatre, London.