You survived! when you didn’t think you were going to… Listen

Breaking Ground: visiting the Charleston shooting site

‘What are your bodies telling you we’re doing standing here in this parking lot?’

It was probably too bald a question to put to the two young African American women scholars standing beside me, but I had to ask it. My body was in trouble, my body was feeling bad, my body had shooting pains – imaginary bullets passing through its shoulder blades, belly, upper thigh, left hand, brain, ear, eye – my body felt hot. More

Gabriel Gbadamosi, The traditions of the dead  Watch

Theatre of Change Symposium ( ‘Waking The Nation’) at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin

21 January 2016

“The dirty secret of jealousy between fathers & daughters” More

A filmed interview on writing Vauxhall for Librarie Mollat. I almost understand my french. Watch

Gabriel Gbadamosi vous présente son ouvrage “Vauxhall” aux éditions Zoé. Rentrée littéraire automne 2015.

Retrouvez le livre : http://www.mollat.com/…/gbadamosi-gabriel-vauxhall-97828818…

Au bord de la Seine plutôt que sur les rives de la Tamise, Gabriel Gbadamosi était l’invité de TV5 Monde pour parler de “Vauxhall” : Regarder (1minute 40seconds d’attente)

Beside the Seine rather than the banks of the Thames, Gabriel Gbadamosi was invited by TV5 Monde to speak about “Vauxhall” : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ACoDVvtjZs (1minute 40seconds in)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ACoDVvtjZs

Gabriel Gbadamosi est poète, dramaturge et essayiste. Son roman Vauxhall (éditions Zoé) a gagné le prix Tibor Jones Pageturner. Il vit à Londres, y est né d’une mère irlandaise et d’un père nigérian. Listen

Les choix musicaux de Gabriel Gbadamosi

Ebenezer Obey: Ajoyio

Louis Armstrong: Mack the Knife

Lauryn Hill:  Ex Factor

http://www.rfi.fr/emission/20150920-gabriel-gbadamosi

In the second episode of our series looking at politics and the arts, we turn to literature. What makes for a political novel? Who decides? And what is the future of political fiction? With writers Gabriel Gbadamosi, Vesna Goldsworthy and Jonathan Freedland. Listen.

I played Capulet, Juliet’s dad, when I was sixteen in a youth theatre production of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet at the Old Vic Theatre in London. Really, I wanted to be Romeo: we all did… more

Blog entry for Le Livre sur les Quais, 4-5-6 Sept. 2015, Morges, Switzerland

Invisible Vauxhall is a downloadable guided walking tour of Vauxhall as a place with a past, with a gay village and a Portuguese village, with the CCTV surveillance cameras of the secret state surrounding the main M16 buildings. Discover its hidden gardens and strange menageries. More