
Emma Dabiri
@emmadabiri
“If James Connolly & Audre Lorde had a love child” bestselling author & broadcaster. Heimbold Chair of Irish Studies. Columnist @guardian C. Ed @elleuk
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Emma Dabiri I am over 70. The only violence I ever encountered in Dublin was from white people in Dublin. On one occasion, my wife and I were protected from a violent gang of young white teenagers by 4 brave men from Kenya and Nigeria studying in Ireland. They saved us.


Need some bedtime reading? Want to convert your Tory uncle to the left? Got a wonky table that could use propping up? Grab Minority Rule from Waterstones!




Grateful to be able to build on Emma Dabiri's work on Afropolitanism to strengthen and extend my argument. Thanks for your voice, Emma.


Some synthetic hair used by many black women to achieve popular hairstyles including braids have been found to contain carcinogens and, in some cases, lead. @bbcnuala is joined by author of Don’t Touch My Hair Emma Dabiri & the BBC’s Chelsea Coates Chelsea Coates to discuss ⬇️


On April 23, award-winning broadcaster & author Emma Dabiri will deliver the 2025 Flatley Lecture Her talk compares Yourba & Irish ontologies to discuss the Irish language notion of duine gorm - 'blue person' - a term used to describe people racialized as Black individuals


Join Funmi Fetto and Emma Dabiri to discuss Funmi's debut collection of short stories, Hail Mary, on Thursday 15th May! Buy tickets here ➡️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/hail-mary-wi…



Emma Dabiri delivered this year’s Flatley Lecture, discussing the Irish language conceptualization of duine gorm - blue person - a term used to describe people racialized as Black. The lecture explored decolonial ideas of thinking about difference outside the taxonomy of race.


There's still time to grab your tickets for this event tomorrow!! Funmi Fetto and Emma Dabiri will be discussing Funmi's debut short story collection, Hail Mary! 🎟️🎟️eventbrite.co.uk/e/hail-mary-wi…


💥Title just launched! 💥 @emmadabiri and Gary Younge will be speaking in conversation on ‘Race, Class and resistance’ at Marxism Festival 2025✊🏾 Get your tickets now at bit.ly/marxism25


We have a great line up of speakers and the timetable will drop soon 👀 Jeremy Corbyn Yanis Varoufakis Gary Younge Ghassan Abu Sitta Ghada Karmi Ilan Pappe Emma Dabiri Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social

1️⃣ One month to go until #marxism2025 Don’t miss out on our great line up of speakers including Emma Dabiri and Gary Younge discussing race, class and resistance. 🌎 Plus there are 100s of sessions debating how we change the world. Tickets: bit.ly/marxism25


.Keith Mulopo I really liked your review of the glass bead game 🙏🏽

Fall 2025! Excited to teach my Lab class Hunter College on *Black and Indigenous Ecologies 🌱 and Technologies* 💿 . Register now. New class! The City University of New York Whale 🐋 watching DJ’ing Decolonial theory
