Dispatches from the Diaspora: From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter

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It's been formally recognised as a Borough of Sanctuary and is teeming with creative individuals and communities. No single journalist has done more to shape my understanding of Black diaspora’s experiences in the world today – Gary Younge’s is not a first draft of history, but storytelling that will survive us all. Formerly a columnist at The Guardian he is an editorial board member of the Nation magazine, the Alfred Knobler Fellow for Type Media and winner of the 2023 Orwell Prize for Journalism.

Gary's always impressive writing encompasses the voices of so many people who would otherwise go completely unheard. Race in particular, and Black people in general, were a couple of the subjects I wanted to focus on. Gary Younge has been there on the frontline throughout this time, translating history into words fused with truth, power and illumination. Dispatches from the Diaspora is an unrivalled body of work from a unique perspective that takes you to the frontlines and compels you to engage and to 'imagine a world in which you might thrive, for which there is no evidence. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.He reports from New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, joins revelers on Chicago's South Side for the evening of Barack Obama's first presidential victory, files from Ferguson as the Black Lives Matter movement starts to make waves around the world, and visits Zimbabwe during the country's descent into crisis. He reports from New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, joins revelers on Chicago’s South Side for the evening of Barack Obama’s first presidential victory, files from Ferguson as the Black Lives Matter movement starts to make waves around the world, and visits Zimbabwe during the country’s descent into crisis. A journalist who throughout his career has shown a commitment to exploring, explaining and challenging his audience. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.

Between following Nelson Mandela during his first election campaign in South Africa and reflecting on a journey to Barbados to bury his mother, Gary Younge here interviews major figures including Angela Davis, Maya Angelou, Desmond Tutu, and the Grime artist Stormzy.

And I was sorry the young man said that,’ reflected Hughes, ‘for no great poet has ever been afraid of being himself. Gary Younge has borne witness to some of the most critical events in the Black diaspora in recent times with an honest and humane eye. The Migration Museum explores how the movement of people to and from Britain across the ages has made us who we are – as individuals and as a nation.

He has written six books including Dispatches From the Diaspora, From Nelson Mandela to Black Lives Matter; The Speech, The Story Behind Martin Luther King’s Dream; Who Are We? From Nobel Laureates Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter to theatre greats Tom Stoppard and Alan Bennett to rising stars Polly Stenham and Florian Zeller, Faber Drama presents the very best theatre has to offer. One of the first columns I wrote for the Guardian, about the NATO bombing of Bosnia, was spiked because the comment editor at the time thought I should stick to subjects closer to home.Gary has made several radio and television documentaries on subjects ranging from the tea party to hip hop culture. Granta, GQ, The Financial Times and The New Statesman and made several radio and television documentaries on subjects ranging from gay marriage to Brexit. This advice, which came from older white journalists (pretty much the only older journalists available when I started out), was rarely malicious. Dispatches from the Diaspora is an unrivalled body of work from a unique perspective that takes you to the frontlines and compels you to engage and to ‘imagine a world in which you might thrive, for which there is no evidence.

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor “Gary Younge has borne witness to some of the most critical events in the black diaspora in recent times with an honest and humane eye.Reflecting on three decades of his remarkable career as a journalist, Dispatches from the Diaspora is a powerful collection of his writings on race, racism, and Black life and death.