On Endimacy We have never been more connected, yet many of us have never felt more unmet in love. What does love look like with new glasses on? From the vantage point of the end of a relationship that lasted almost a quarter century? In a world transformed by new technologies,

Writing this in public was quite a feat. But we did it Jo. We did it!

On Sadness I want to share something quite personal, but it is methodologically important, since it is one of the key events that led to the development of Afroanalytics. The day I learnt about my father’s death I was with my best friend. May she rest in peace, she has also

Thank you to all the students, peers and colleagues who have attended my lecture: Research as decolonial work: Afroanalytics as methodology, at the Tavistock this morning. I am told there were something like 16 different countries represented in the space, quite incredible,

A study by King’s College London found that Black people are up to 48× more likely than white people to be stopped and searched by police in some of London’s wealthiest areas. One example is East Sheen in Richmond-upon-Thames, where average house prices exceed £1 million - in

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Good morning. Today I’m excited to share the cover of my new book, my most intimate, reflective and vulnerable writing to date. Pre launch details coming soon. What does the cover evoke for you? What do #Endimacy and #TheCrisisOfLove mean?

Well…who could have anticipated I’d bring French hip hop into my thesis, but here we are. This what Afroanalytics gives space to do. To consider all the ways diasporic realities are lived, archived and what they tell us about living while black in the aftermath of

Also rest in power to Calbo, one of the founding members and a pioneer of French hip-hop who died a few weeks ago. A true master of spoken words.

African Legends/Légendes africaines Long post As I prepare for my lecture at the Tavi and continue to write the final chapters of my thesis, I want to return to the forest as epistemology, via the song by Bisso Na Bisso (more about them below). I put details and brief

Also…additional reflection in my lecture on the Kongo and enslavement at the Liverpool International Slavery Museum last summer, I reflected on what I picked up from my family (particularly from my mother) being steered away from politics & history, which I liked to the

Good Morning! A few words on Afroanalysis I discovered yesterday that I am ancestrally/ethnically linked to anti-colonial resistance, and that my people are famed for their rebellious spirit. Incredibly I heard it on TikTok… then researched the veracity of the claim, and it