Diyora Shadijanova (https://twitter.com/thediyora) talks with Taking Up Space authors Chelsea Kwakye and Ore Ogunbiyi (https://twitter.com/OreOgunb). They discuss why Kwakye and Ogunbiyi were urged to write the black girl manifesto for change, the process of completing a degree at the same time as writing their first book and the exciting projects they have coming up off the back of their success. Buy the book here (https://shorturl.at/kpvGQ)

In next month’s book club we’ll be discussing Humankind by Dutch historian Rutger Bregman, so get reading now and send in your thoughts and comments via voice-note to [email protected]

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