Wuleta and Salome: Weavers and sowers.

Posted on February 21, 2015 by Lemn Sissay

Addis Ababa. Day 2. Saturday. My cold disappears partly due to a weird and delicious hot peanut milk remedy which a waitress insists I drink at breakfast. I run 4k at the gym. Wuleta and Salome roll Read more [...]

Is one lifetime enough.

Posted on February 20, 2015 by Lemn Sissay

I arrive in darkness and awake in the near darkness which crowds on the edge of dawn. It’s 5am and the Muezzin echoes across Addis. To me this is the sound of Africa. The first Muezzin was an Ethiopian Read more [...]

Pioneering women of Ethiopia

Posted on February 15, 2015 by Lemn Sissay

Anette Johnson attended high school with my mother in Ethiopia. She wrote me with some incredible pictures (of my mother) like the one above circa 1963. Anette organised a reunion in 2014. She Read more [...]

BBC recording live in Addis Ababa where Bob Marley performed

Posted on February 10, 2015 by Lemn Sissay

Win £100 and feature in my video

Posted on January 30, 2015 by Lemn Sissay

Here's how to enter for £100 win. All you do is quote two lines of my poem into a video camera or on your phone camera and email it to suresh@suryalumen.com. The whole poem is below. You can send Read more [...]

FA Cup Fifth Round – Every Game’s An Adventure.

Posted on January 26, 2015 by Lemn Sissay

There are twenty one teams left in The FA Cup final. There is one poem commissioned by The FA. One poet who wrote it. The FA have released two verses so far. There are more verses to come. Here are Read more [...]

Wood End Assessment Centre: Wigan’s secret imprisonment of children

Posted on January 22, 2015 by Lemn Sissay

Abuse in childhood is most evident in the internal life of the adult. Many of us went into the care system simply to be cared for only to find ourselves stuck in a kafkaesque nightmare at Wood End. Read more [...]

My morning tweets and why I do them.

Posted on January 18, 2015 by Lemn Sissay

I appreciate the messages from around the world about my morning tweets. I’ve been writing them for years. It's a way to stir the creative pond by my bed when I wake. It's certainly a way to Read more [...]

Deliverance on BBC Radio 3

Posted on January 17, 2015 by Lemn Sissay

Deliverance is the title of our brand new documentary about women. It'll be broadcast on on BBC radio 3 - Feb 28th. This is how it came about. Some years ago the artist Kate Daudy captivated me Read more [...]

I’m Coming to Ethiopia in February 2015

Posted on January 13, 2015 by Lemn Sissay

It's with great joy to announce that I will be performing in Addis Ababa in Late February. I'll be recording a programme for BBC in front of a live audience. I'll also be interviewing people about Read more [...]