Dr Florence Marfo is Programme Area Manager for Humanities &Languages at Morley College London, where she hosts a podcast series to accompany the Morley Prize for Unpublished Writers of Colour. To date, she has interviewed journalist and academic Gary Younge, fiction writers Deesha Philyaw and Abi Daré, and memoir writer Malik Al Nasir, author of Letters to Gil. She is a graduate of French Language and Literature from Goldsmiths, University of London and holds a doctorate in African American and Afro-Brazilian Text from Bristol University. Florence has lived, studied and worked in a number of countries, including Togo, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde and Brazil. She speaks several languages, including Portuguese and Crioulo.
Gary Younge (1969- )
Writer Gary Younge was born in January 1969 in Hertfordshire, England, to Barbadian parents. He grew up in the town of Stevenage, which had a very small Black population at the time. Gary and his two elder brothers, Pat and Wayne, were brought up by … Read MoreGary Younge (1969- )