‘Elephant Diaries’ — Episode 2: Black Womanhood, Black British Girlhood, Coconuts, Colourism, Anger

Watch epis­ode two of ‘Ele­phant Diar­ies’, the fort­nightly web­ser­ies by writer, blog­ger, and poet, Siana Bangura.

In this epis­ode Siana offers insight into sec­tion two of ‘Ele­phant’, the debut col­lec­tion of poetry by Siana Bangura. What is it like to be a migrant? What does a Black Brit­ish Girl­hood look like? What does it mean to be a ‘coconut’? How do we come to accept the mul­ti­pli­city of the Black Brit­ish exper­i­ence? How do we util­ise anger and turn it into some­thing pos­it­ive?

Watch epis­ode two to find out!

‘Ele­phant’ will be out world­wide on 21^st May 2016.

‘Ele­phant Diar­ies’ is a series filmed and edited by Troy James Aidoo.

To find out more, vis­it: www.sianabangura.com

And to dis­cuss, tweet and fol­low Siana at www.twitter.com/sianaarrgh

#This­IsEle­phant

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Catch Epis­ode One here. 

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