Black music is championed at festivals but it is rare that those same festivals are led or owned by Black people. Yam Carnival took place over the August Bank Holiday weekend and it didn’t hit the mark in the way people, especially Black people wanted it to. There was a real excitement for the festival…
This new yearly festival provides a unique platform in the centre of London for emerging and established writers, performers and artists to bring together Britain’s diverse Muslim population. The UK‘s approximately three million Muslims are rarely seen or heard discussing philosophy, science, literature and the arts on mainstream platforms and unfortunately, discussions around Muslims are dominated…