New book on Barack Obama examines race and power in America’s political history
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Book Review: Illuminating the Darkness: Blacks and North Africans in Islam
Habeeb Akande, the book’s author is a British-born Muslim of African descent who graduated from Kingston University with a first class degree in business and film studies. He went on to study Arabic, Islamic law and Islamic history in Egypt. The book consists of fifteen chapters in two parts. Chapter 1 examines the representation of…
Book Review: What’s love got to do with it? By Ifayomi Grant
This book explores black male/female relationships in the west and suggests seven steps to solving the crisis in relationships based on secondary research, personal stories and opinions gathered from a wide cross-section of people. It touches on some really important issues about building and maintaining sustainable relationships. The seven steps outlined give some interesting, practical…
First class business graduate becomes scholar and author on Islamic history and law
Habeeb Akande is the author of a recently published book called Illuminating the Darkness: Blacks and North Africans in Islam, that seeks to critically address the issue of racial discrimination and colour prejudice in religious history. After graduating with a first class honours degree in business and film studies from Kingston University, Habeeb headed to…
New book examines why Britain has become such a diverse country
When the London riots of August 2011 started to spread across different parts of the country, people questioned whether or not the riots were really about the shooting of a young black man by the police. That is open to debate, but what is unquestionable is that there are segments of society that are disengaged…
Family value on education inspired a love of books
I have loved books and reading from a very young age and was always surrounded by literature at home. I had aunts who were both teachers in the Caribbean and my parents always stressed the importance of education and learning when I was growing up. I grew up on a diet of Enid Blyton when…
A childhood love of fairy tales fuelled interest in creative writing
Welcome to the first of our features profiling new authors. Yasmin is a journalism graduate with seven years’ journalism experience who has decided to venture into creative writing. She says: “As a little girl in primary school I was always compelled to write short stories based on finding my prince and having a fairy tale…