: About Me

I grew up in severe Domestic Violence in the early 60's when race riots in England were the talk of politics and Enoch Powell made his famous 'Rivers of Blood' speech (1968). My mother is a petite red haired, Irish Catholic from Ennis, County Clare and my father is a tall, chocolate colored Yoruba Nigerian. They met and came together in turbulent times. My parents faced disgust and social isolation to be together. The story goes that my alcoholic Irish grandmother died falling off a Peat Bog Cart and breaking her neck when she heard the news that I, a mixed race child, had been born to her...