To Be Young, Gifted and Black by Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason

To Be Young, Gifted and Black by Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason

‘This exceptional book, written with a mother’s love for her seven creative children, sensitively offers profound and original insights and perspectives that enrich our culture I feel so much wiser for reading it.’ —Bernardine Evaristo

'A graceful, dignified and impassioned defence of Black excellence in the arts, which attempts to find a hopeful future for Black artistic self-expression.' —Caroline Sanderson, Bookseller, editor's choice

Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason is a former lecturer in English at Birmingham University. Her memoir, House of Music won both the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Storytelling Award and the 2022 Indie Book Award for non-fiction. Kadiatu has seven children, all of whom are world-class classical musicians.