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Emma Dabiri

Emma Dabiri

Author and Broadcaster

Emma Dabiri is a teaching fellow in the Africa department at SOAS and a Visual Sociology PhD researcher at Goldsmiths. Her first book Don’t Touch My Hair will be published by Penguin in May 2019. She has been published in a number of anthologies - alongside such post-colonial heavyweights as Homi Bhabha and Achille Mbembe - academic journals, as well as the national press. A regular BBC face she presented numerous series including  'Back in Time Brixton' (BBC2), 'The SweetMakers’ (BBC2), ‘Britain's Lost Masterpieces' (BBC4), as well as the sociological experiment 'Is Love Racist?' (Ch4). Most recently, she hosted Radio 4's critically-acclaimed documentary 'Journeys into Afro-futurism'. 

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