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The Gift review " clever and complex vision of black Britons, then and now by Arifa Akbar

Belgrade theatre, CoventryThe story of Sarah Bonetta Davies, given to Queen Victoria, is contrasted with a modern black British woman in Janice Okoh's play The historian David Olusoga has spoken of black Britons across the centuries whose stories have been forgotten, untold or "hidden in plain view". Sarah Bonetta Davies is one of them. A 19th-century Yoruba princess, she was orphaned and enslaved before becoming the…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18PM on January 21, 2020

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