Auteur: Stella Dadzie

Stella Dadzie is best known for her co-authorship of The Heart of the Race: Black Women »s lives in Britain which won the 1985 Martin Luther King Award for Literature, and was recently re-published by Verso as a Feminist Classic. She is a founder member of OWAAD (Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent), a national umbrella group that emerged in the late 1970s as part of the British Civil Rights movement, and was recently described as one of the « grandmothers » of Black Feminism in the UK. Her career as a teacher, writer, artist and education activist spans over 40 years.