Barber Shop Chronicles

Friday 15th May 2020

David Webber and Fisayo Akinade in Barber Shop Chronicles. Photo: Marc Brenner
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Text of the day: “We who live outside our countries left because our leaders, our fathers failed us somehow, or the system was designed for us to fail. We’re not in our motherlands… motherless too. Maybe we’re all orphans here?” (Emmanuel in Inua Ellams’s Barber Shop Chronicles)

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