Young Vic artistic director Kwame Kwei-Armah says he was warned that the venue was facing battles with fundraising because some people felt he was turning it into a “black National Theatre”.
Kwei-Armah grew up in West London, the son of parents who had emigrated from Grenada. He grew up rarely seeing black faces on television. Watching the TV series Roots, about an African man who is ...
Kwei Quartey, read by Simon Prebble, Tantor Media, unabridged, eight CDs, 9.5 hours, $34.99 ISBN 978-1-4001-1341-5 The murder of a young med student brings Det. Insp. Darko Dawson from his police ...