Untold (But No Longer Unheard)

Hello friends,

I was very excited to see Nova Reid and Afua Hirsch on the same stage. To be honest when I heard that this was happening at the time I'd be in London I just booked the ticket without even checking what it was about. The fact that I was also getting to go with one of my favourite people, the fabulous Yinka Ewuola, was a bonus.

I never got time to look into it fully but I'd been following the final bit of the build up on social. It was about the untold stories from our history - collected an Audible podcast titled Hidden Histories. The stories feature women, often dark skinned, that did great things and that have somehow (not at all mysteriously) been written out of history.

The show opened with a song by an artist whose voice rocked the room. Spontaneous applause broke out. Then came the main act: Afua, as journalist and friend, interviewing Nova about the project.

This was truth telling, raw and honest, about mother wounds, lack of rest, the bittersweet irony of a man's murder being the reason you're in demand, and the pain of the trough at the end of the trend. It was about discovery, self discovery, lessons learned, accountability and finding joy.