Writing Our Histories with Lanre Bakare, Yepoka Yeebo + Jade E Bradford
Thu, Oct 23
|Bard Books
How Creative Non-Fiction Shapes Our Sense of Self. The work of Black British historians and what they discovered about themselves, their craft, and their culture through writing their now-acclaimed books.
Time & Location
Oct 23, 2025, 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM
Bard Books, 341-343 Roman Rd, Bow, London E3 5QR, UK
Guests
About the event
Winner of the Jhalak Prize & Plutarch Award | A New York Times, New Yorker, Washington Post, Newsweek, TIME Book of the Year 2023
'Fabulously entertaining' Daily Telegraph | 'Perfect for fans of Frank Abignale Jr.'s Catch Me If You Can' Publishers Weekly
The astounding, never-before-told story of how an ingenious Ghanaian con artist ran one of the 20th century's longest and most audacious frauds.
When Ghana declared independence from Britain in 1957, it immediately became a target for opportunists determined to lay hold of whatever assets colonialism hadn't already stripped. The military ousted the new nation's first president, Kwame Nkrumah, then falsely accused him of stealing the country's gold and hiding it overseas.
Into this story stepped one of history's most charismatic scammers, John Ackah Blay-Miezah – a con man to rival the trickster god Anansi. Born into poverty, Blay-Miezah declared himself the custodian of an alleged Nkrumah trust…