Emma Dabiri

Emma Dabiri is an Irish-Nigerian academic, activist, broadcaster and teaching fellow in the Africa department at SOAS and a Visual Sociology PhD researcher at Goldsmiths. Her 2019 debut Don’t Touch My Hair, (Penguin) was an Irish Times Bestseller and published to critical and commercial acclaim. The book also inspired a national conversation about race and hair and has led to changing regulations in schools and in the British army.

A regular broadcaster on the BBC, Emma presented 'Back in Time Brixton' (BBC2), 'Britain's Lost Masterpieces' (BBC4), as well as the sociological experiment 'Is Love Racist?' (Ch4). Most recently, she hosted Radio 4's critically-acclaimed documentary 'Journeys into Afro-futurism’.

Videos

Emma Dabiri and Beverly Daniel Tatum on Race and What Comes Next | 5x15

Past Events

Emma Dabiri and Shon Faye

Online, Via Zoom
Online, Via Zoom
Event Featuring

Join 5x15 online for a conversation on the theme of coalition-building with pioneering thinkers and writers

Claudia Rankine and Emma Dabiri: Just Us

Online, Via Zoom
Online, Via Zoom
Event Featuring

An unmissable conversation with one of America’s most highly respected, original and influential authors, Claudia Rankine, and best selling author and academic Emma Dabiri

Emma Dabiri and Beverly Daniel Tatum

Online, Via Zoom
Online, Via Zoom
Event Featuring

Join 5x15 with Emma Dabiri and Beverly Daniel Tatum