Story: ‘'Sheffield’s Africa’ responds to the attitude of 20th Century Britain towards the African diaspora.
'Nigeria Says No' is inspired by a 1909 article lamenting the fact that colonial Britain couldn't get Ibadan in Nigeria to drink enough article, unlike it states it can in Barnsley.
The recovery: Wemmy reflexively responded to articles written about people like us. She seeks to challenge the representation of Blackness in each one while capturing the hardships and joys of the people who came before her. Wemmy’s approach is playful, considered, rooted in her sense of self and always poetic.
