ISSUE 5 OCTOBER 2024
BLACK MANIFESTO! AFTERMATHS NORA CHIPAUMIRE
WATER IS POLITICAL ZANDILE NDHLOVU
THE INTERVIEW BARONESS LOLA YOUNG
LAUNCHPAD
ZITA HOLBOURNE PRECIOUS SERONGA SAMANTHA M THOMPSON
BlackInk Issue 5, October 2024 Published by Serendipity Institute for Black Arts and Heritage Serendipity 8 Bowling Green Street Leicester LE1 6AT
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Contents 6
Editor’s Welcome — Pawlet Brookes
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Insight: Carnival
30
Launchpad
46
Forgotten Histories
74
Arts and Culture
100
AfroManifesto
118
Place and Space
142
BlackInk New Writing Competition
152
Spotlight: 100 Black Women Who Have Made A Mark
156
2024 in Numbers
158
Calendar Highlights
160
Coming Soon
164
The Interview – Baroness Lola Young
The Power is in the MAS — Clary Salandy Junkanoo/Junka(new): The History and Aesthetic Contributions of a Bahamian Cultural Performance — A’Keitha Carey The Hip as a Weapon: Further Reflections — Sonja Dumas Brazilian Carnivals: Festivity, Transgression and Revolution — Cláudia Nwabasili and Roges Doglas Derby Carnival: A Personal Reflection — Nezrine Hudson Black Women; Standing Up For All Of Us — Zita Holbourne Afro Hair Portraits and History — Precious Seronga How Much Is Too Much? — Samantha M Thompson
Black Female Academics’ Health and Psychological Markers: The Impact of Serenity’ — Lisa-Dionne Morris and Ricardo Anderson Black Women: Shaping Success on a White Canvas — Victoria Showunmi Searching for Christena — Tasmin Evans The Eroticised Gaze — Hafsa Hirsi L’Antech’s Tendvalou: DECOLONISATION of the spirit, mind and body through DAAANCE — L’Antoinette Stines Hidden Dance Vocabularies: An Act of Cultural Illiteracy — Thomas Talawa Prestø Familiarity with trauma does not make it acceptable — Quentin Sledge Coming to Voice through Capoeira: Black Woman Embody a History — Ana Paz Black Manifesto! Aftermaths — nora chipaumire Dreaming of Joy — Caroline Johnson Black Women’s Technologies of Imagination and Interiority — Francesca Sobande The Unspoken Truth: Black Femicide — Maya Brookes
Claiming Space — Jamie J Thompson Water is Political — Zandile Ndhlovu Black Females in Architecture/Socially Responsible Design — Selasi Setufe Black Women in Architecture and Design: Pioneering Change and Innovation — Tara Gbolade Building Stronger Communities — Nicholas Okwulu Mek Sense — Aphra Le Levier-Bennett Hush Child! — Michelle Mother Hubbard
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