the local council says penta hotel has been linked to a significant number of positive cases. it s understand 44 residents and staff at the site run by the department for health and social care have tested positive. the department has yet to comment. the government says thousands of homes will be better protected from flooding across surrey and the surrounding area, after it approved the latest stage of the river thames scheme. many homes and businesses were damaged in serious flooding in 2014. the scheme, costing more than £500 million, includes constructing two new flood relief channels at runnymede and spelthorne. a year on from the black lives matter movement, an illustrator from south london has written a book for children aimed at exploring the experiences young black people face as they re growing up. hey you, by dapo adeola, is said to address issues in an honest but hopeful way, and it includes pictures by 19 other black illustrators. i never saw books that represented
children as they grow up and help parents too. here is his story. my name is dapo adeola and i am the author and illustrator of the picture book hey you! . i wanted to do a book that allowed black people to have a vehicle to talk to their children about the various experiences that we have growing up. when i was growing up as a kid, did i see myself represented in books? no, i did not. so i decided that i would write this book as if i was writing to my younger self in the hopes that, you know, black children reading it can feel empowered from a much younger age. this was a story that i needed help to tell. so, to do that, i enlisted the help of 18 very talented and amazing black illustrators. hi, my name is chante timothy. i m a freelance illustrator. my page in the book is about choice, about the stereotypes of the jobs that we as black people tend
The British-Nigerian illustrator and character designer talks about his break into the industry, his experiences with pigeonholing and plans for the future
Three good reads for the African summer
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Gail Collins presents a round-up of all the new and interesting developments in the world of books relating to Africa.
Africa does not sleep. Its creative power is keeping it awake and waking up others too. Great authors continue to bring their stories to the world, literary programmes are ramping up and soon creative minds will be back together again, unleashing new ideas and encouraging fresh writers to tell their story.
This summer’s reads are already on their way and just published is
The South African novelist, playwright, scholar and activist in her 77
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