A Very Caribbean Christmas with Chef Anthony Cumberbatch
Chef Anthony Cumberbatch is an award-winning Michelin Star trained Head Chef with over 30 years of international culinary experience. He...
ELISA SEDNAOUI-DELLAL: FUNTASIA EDUCATION & AFRICAN PHILANTHROPY
unSEEN Peek™ – OGONI BOY 2007 is a photograph from George Osodi’s OIL RICH NIGER DELTA 2003-2007 series. George Osodi is a Nigerian...
ELISA SEDNAOUI-DELLAL: CREATIVELY EMPOWERING NATIONS
Elisa Sednaoui-Dellal is a face many of you will recognise from prestigious advertising campaigns and have likely admired gracing the...
COMMISSION CONVERSATION: LEMI GHARIOKWU celebrates MOSOP at 30
I have spent the past week deeply immersed in the transcript of a never before Seen or Heard early 1990s interview with Ken Saro-Wiwa,...
KEN SARO WIWA – RESURRECTION by Nathan Achim Sheppard
On this day, as we mark Twenty-Five years since the execution of the Ogoni Nine, the world surely deserves AFRICA: Seen & Heard (ASH) to...
THE POWER OF NINE – OGONI IMPACT
Life in the time of Coronavirus brought home the Interconnectedness and Vulnerability of Global Humanity with a speed and impact few...
THE SPEECH THAT NEVER WAS, BUT ALWAYS WILL BE: OGONI REPARATIONS
In 2019, I was asked to give a speech on the need for Ogoni Reparations and Social Justice before the annual Afrikan Emancipation Day...
THE CONTEMPORARY ENSLAVEMENT PROGRAMME – VISION, PURPOSE & INTENTION
2016 unSEEN Peek™ – Two female Nigerian refugees embrace and weep inside the Surman Detention Centre, a Libyan facility that indefinitely...
COMMISSION CONVERSATION: KOFI ALLEN – Part I
One of a Kind Photograph. Burnt and set in resin. Unveiled at The Darkroom Exhibition held at The Brixton Art Gallery in 1999 as an...
THE PROVIDENT EYE: REMEMBERING DAVID REDFERN
Stellar unSEEN Peek™ – B. B. King was born Riley B. King on a Mississippi cotton plantation in 1925. As a boy in the Deep South of the...
Curating The Gleaner Archive Collection
INDEPENDENCE unSEEN Peek™ – REIGN FALL is Exhibit 26. within The Gleaner Archive Collection. The Gleaner Archive Collection is a...
Writing Between The Lines: The Problem With Immigrants
CINEMATIC unSEEN Peek™ – Still Shot and Extract from Jemima + Johnny. Jemima + Johnny is a 1966 short film that focuses on the...
HIDDEN VOICES™ ARCHIVE – Papua New Guinea embodies UNITY IN DIVERSITY
unSEEN Peek™ – Woman from West Highland Province participating in the annual Mount Hagen Festival which has united Papua New Guinea’s...
BATH BALM – Time Out in a Timeless City
2017 is almost at an end, so it seems easier to believe that so many months have passed since my sensational and soothing May Bank...
UNIQUELY NIGERIAN – EASTER WITH THE AGUDA OF LAGOS ISLAND
C19th unSEEN Peek™ – This colourful lithograph entitled NÈGRE & NÉGRESSE DE BAHIA by JOHANN MORITZ RUGENDAS was published within his...
HIDDEN VOICES™ – SHE’S STILL HERE… LIFE AFTER DEATH OF AN ICONIC MOTHER
This intimate and unguarded moment between Earth Kitt and her daughter Kitt McDonald was captured during a promotional trip to Jamaica in...
THE OLFACTORY VOYAGE
PHOTO CREDIT unSEEN Peek™ – Naomi Campbell styled with Paul Gauguin sensibility and shot by Peter Lindbergh for Harper’s Bazaar in 1992....
Scents & Sensibility with Roja Dove and UNESCO’s CBCIU
This carved relief decorates the tomb and commemorates the life of Ihat, a priestess of the Ancient Egyptian goddess Hathor and wife of...
THE FLAVOUR OF FREEDOM
The evolution from being an Editor to being edited seemed like quite a devolution at the time that I wrote this article on VANIILLA – one...




















