“Baako went to the left side wall and took down the huge calendar from off its hook. The calendar itself was a small thing suspended from a very large color picture advertising something called AMBI-EXTRA skin-lightening cream."
"In the center foreground stood a couple of Africans with successfully bleached skins looking a forced yellow-brown. Around them several darker Africans stood in various poses, all open-mouthed with admiration of the bleached pair.” (Ayi Kwei Armah, Fragments [Per Ankh edition], 129)
I recently joined the editorial advisory board for the new book series Women's Broadcasting Histories at University of Exeter Press. If you or someone you know has a book project in the area, please feel free to reach out to me. I would be more than happy to connect you with the editors.