Nigergian-Irish poet, performer and playwright Felicia Olusanya grew up in Co Longford, and her poem, For Our Mothers, is on the Leaving Cert English curriculum. She lives between Brussels and Dublin.
Updated / Friday, 18 Dec 2020
18:20
Poet Felispeaks and rapper Jafaris perform
They, a special commission for Shine Your Light - Solstice on RTÉ Radio One on Sunday from 8.30pm.
RTÉ in association with the Creative Ireland Programme is calling on Ireland to Shine Your Light on Sunday, December 20 from 8.30pm to create an important, national moment of solidarity, on the eve of the 2020 winter solstice. Both RTÉ Radio and Television will mark this special moment with story, song and poetry.
They is an exploration of identity, modern society and race. It s a safe space for the words of poet Felispeaks and rapper Jafaris to voice a year of when being black became personal, amid the global Black Lives Matter movement.