Writers Mosaic: We Were There

Lanre Bakare was born and grew up in Bradford, West Yorkshire. He is a correspondent covering arts and culture for the Guardian, where his writing focuses on the intersection of art, race and culture across multiple disciplines.

Malika Booker is a poet and multi-disciplinary artist of Guyanese and Grenadian parentage. Her writers’ collective Malika’s Poetry Kitchen has had a major impact on the British Poetic landscape and she is currently Creative Writing Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Bea Freeman’s career in filmmaking has spanned five decades working with national broadcasters and using her filmmaking talents to highlight racial injustice in Liverpool. Born, raised and educated in Liverpool, she has remained rooted in the city and from an early age was involved in the L8 Black community.

Colin Grant is the Director of WritersMosaic, a division of the Royal Literary Fund. His books include Bageye at the Wheel, short-listed for the Pen Ackerley Prize, and Homecoming: Voices of the Windrush Generation. His latest book is I’m Black So You Don’t Have to Be.

Daudi Matsiko is a British Ugandan singer-songwriter. Matsiko set up his own label, ‘Really Good,’ to release his debut album, The King of Misery, a hauntingly beautiful exploration of depression, bipolar disorder and finding hope in that experience.