‘We prefer their company’
Sadiah Qureshi: Black British History, 15 June 2017
Black and British: A Forgotten History
by David Olusoga.
Pan Macmillan, 624 pp., £25, November 2016,978 1 4472 9973 8 Show More
by David Olusoga.
Pan Macmillan, 624 pp., £25, November 2016,
“... performing a battle scene. The most famous of them was Peter Lobengula, said to be the son of King Lobengula of Matabeleland (now Zimbabwe), who attracted considerable attention by marrying a white woman called Kitty Jewell. Troupes of minstrels toured Britain, creating a genre so popular that it remained a staple of television light entertainment until ... ”