Banseka Kayembe interviews artists Chin We and Mario Washington-Ihieme on culture, identity and celebrating Black women as part of IFE NKILI.
Banseka Kayembe & Illustration: Mariochukwu Washington-Ihieme
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Banseka Kayembe is a freelance writer and creator and Editor in Chief of Naked Politics, a website to engage young people in politics.
The first time I’m introduced to Maya Penn over email, I’m informed that she is a 21 year old environmentalist, who’s been in the activism space since she was eight years old. At 28 years old, I’m fairly sure there’s nothing I’ve been doing for eight years, besides maybe breathing,...
Banseka Kayembe & Illustration: Daisy Doodles
Of all the Black female tropes, the ‘mammy’ stereotype seems to most escape our attention. Being aggressive, unintelligent, ghetto, hyper-sexual, a welfare queen or a money-hungry gold digger seem like the far more obviously damaging pigeon holes for Black women to be forced into. By contrast, the ‘mammy’ trope frames...
Banseka Kayembe & Illustration: Chanté Timothy
The sharp rise of the Black Lives Matter movement earlier this year has made anti-Black racism an increasingly highlighted issue. The death of George Floyd, an American man strangled to death under a white police officer’s knee has become a global symbol of Black oppression. George Floyd’s death is not...
Banseka Kayembe & Illustration: Luci Pina
Banseka Kayembe on maintaining the momentum of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Banseka Kayembe is a freelance writer, creator and Editor-in-Chief of Naked Politics, a website to engage young people in politics. shado met Banseka at the her place of work, the Houses of Parliament, to find out her platform and to delve deeper into some of the problems that exist within...
Banseka Kayembe, Hannah Robathan & Illustration: Isabella Pearce