Between Starshine and Clay, Sarah Ladipo Manyika
Between Starshine and Clay, Sarah Ladipo Manyika
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Between Starshine and Clay
Conversations from the African Diaspora

Author: Sarah Ladipo Manyika, Bernardine Evaristo

Narrator: Sarah Ladipo Manyika, Bernadine Evaristo

Unabridged: 10 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/26/2023

Synopsis

In a series of incisive and intimate encounters Sarah Ladipo Manyika introduces some of the most distinguished Black thinkers of our times, including Nobel Laureates Toni Morrison and Wole Soyinka, and civic leaders first lady Michelle Obama and Senator Cory Booker. She searches for truth with poet Claudia Rankine and historian Henry Louis Gates, Jr. She discusses race and gender with South African filmmaker Xoliswa Sithole and American actor and playwright Anna Deavere Smith. She interrogates the world around us with pioneering publisher Margaret Busby, parliamentarian Lord Michael Hastings, and civil rights activist Pastor Evan Mawarire—who dared to take on President Robert Mugabe and has lived to tell the tale. We also meet the living embodiment of the many threads, ideas, and histories in this book through the profile of her fabulous 102-year-old friend, Mrs. Willard Harris. In journeys that book-end the collection, Sarah Ladipo Manyika reflects on her own experience of being seen as 'oyinbo' in Nigeria, African in England, Arab in France, colored in Southern Africa, and Black in America, while feeling the least Black and most human among her fellow travelers, explorers all, against the sharp white relief of the South Pole.

This audiobook includes original recordings of conversations and interviews with the most distinguished black thinkers of our times.

About Sarah Ladipo Manyika

Sarah Ladipo Manyika is a British-Nigerian-American writer of novels, short stories, and essays translated into several languages. She is author of the bestselling novel In Dependence and multiple shortlisted novel Like A Mule Bringing Ice Cream To The Sun, and has had work published in publications, including Granta, The Guardian, the Washington Post, and Transfuge, among others. Sarah serves as board chair for the women's writing residency, Hedgebrook; she was previously board director for the Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco; and has been a judge for the Goldsmiths Prize, California Book Awards, Aspen Words Literary Prize, and chair of judges for the Pan-African Etisalat Prize.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Baba on March 31, 2023

Sarah Ladipo Manyika was so very kind to send me an advance copy of this book, and I was remiss not to read it sooner, more fool me. I Five Starred my first two Ladipo Manyika reads Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun and In Dependence, both fiction, so I was not actually expecting those heigh......more

Goodreads review by Gumble's Yard - Golden Reviewer on September 11, 2022

won't you celebrate with me what i have shaped into what i have shaped into a kind of life? i had no model. born in babylon both nonwhite and woman what did i see to be except myself? i made it up here on this bridge between starshine and clay, my one hand holding tight my other hand; come celebrate with me......more

Goodreads review by Johanna on February 12, 2024

While some of the chapters felt they didn’t quite have enough depth to stand alone, those that did were wonderful state of the nation pieces, particularly Claudia Rankine and Xoliswa Sithole. I’d also never heard of Margaret Busby, Britain's youngest and first black female book publisher, which was......more

Goodreads review by Ocean on August 28, 2022

Such a concentrated amount of black excellence in this book! This is a wonderful set of interviews of some of the most influential contemporary black people, divided in three, creators, curators and changemakers. From Toni Morrison and Michelle Obama to Henry Louis Gates Jr and many others more, the......more

Goodreads review by Julie on December 18, 2022

This book has been an education without being preachy . Sarah sets the scene so you feel you are in the room and part of an intimate conversation. It’s a wonderful opportunity to hear the views and experience of a remarkable set of people. It invites you to reflect on the difficult subject of racism......more

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