2019: Theresa May, "After Brexit our environmental standards will not fall" 2024: Oxford rower Leonard Jenkins, "A few guys got e.coli.. I was throwing up this morning.. It would have been ideal not to have so much poo in the water" World famous #TheBoatRace2024 The Boat Race

So excited about this event. Monica grew up in North Korea following the assassination of her father. This is a story like no other. Come along and hear her at this Free Event.

On what planet are these train prices acceptable? £118 for a standard ticket for a 1 hour 7 minute journey is a national disgrace East Midlands Railway (EMR) Which political party is actually doing something about train prices and the cost of living crisis? Because this is not sustainable.

NEW: Richard Black, a man who was stranded in the Caribbean for over 40 years because of the Windrush scandal, finally returned to Britain this morning. I headed to Gatwick Airport earlier to witness this moment. independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…

Pleased to be representing Mr Black & family who returned to the UK today after being stranded in Trinidad & Tobago for 40 yrs due to the #WindrushScandal. The family fought the Home Office with grace & grit. Excellent work & support to the family by Gertrude & Windrush Lives

Black Girl From Pyongyang in Brighton During the weekend our lovely author Monica Macias went down to Brighton for some events and a bookshop tour Thank you to everyone for having Monica👏 ✍️You can find signed copies here: Afrori Books | Bookseller of the Year 2023 The Feminist Bookshop Waterstones Brighton

We're so excited about this one!

We're looking for a theatre producer for my new panto 'Yankl & Der Beanstalk'. Working towards a production this winter and supporting with marketing, fundraising, venue liaising, budgeting. Paid! DM me if you'd like to chat. Some recent pics: photos.app.goo.gl/ySJiEo6yd9Bdvn… Please RT!

An important read

31 years since Stephen Lawrence was murdered 31 years to remind us of the continuous injustice towards black britons 31 years and still killers walk free 31 years and no closure 31 years and we continue to fight 31 years and we keep our hope for a better UK, and a better world

Caleb Azumah Nelson is coming to Jubilee Library next weekend. Set over the course of three summers, from South London to Ghana and back again, SMALL WORLDS is a novel about the worlds we build for ourselves. The worlds we live, dance and love within. Ticket link in comments👇

Front-row seats for ⁦Jeremy Corbyn⁩ with ⁦Afrori Books | Bookseller of the Year 2023⁩ and Mikaela Loach….

UK friends: my publishers Leaping Hare Press and Quarto Books UK are partnering with Afrori Books | Bookseller of the Year 2023 for UK preorders of DO THE WORK. If you’re preordering our UK release, please do so through the UK’s biggest supplier of books by Black authors! Link in the thread!

Marie Mitchell, author of Kin: Caribbean Recipes for the Modern Kitchen and Sharmadean Reid, author of New Methods for Women: A Manifesto for Independence will be joining us at our Bookshop Social at Afrori Books | Bookseller of the Year 2023 (Penguin Books UK) Find out more: booksellerevents.org.uk

Whilst we love to see this new wave of support for the victims in Palestine, it does make us wonder where these people have been? What have you ignored, and why are you paying attention now? And, most importantly, how long will this new solidarity last?

If you can’t afford to run a company ethically, then you can’t afford to run a company.

The black community may be lacking in resources, but we are never lacking in resourcefulness.

To our Twitter friends. It’s hard to function on a platform that is actively opposed to what you stand for. Because of this we have decided to stop engaging on this platform. Follow us on IG or Threads (@afroribooks). The shop’s in the same place and our email’s always open 💙