Bear with me as I get this to a wider audience. Hope you will allow me @SamanthaAsumadu that grace as the sole founder of @WritersofColour who does the tweets from here normally. I need help. I.e a book agent who cares about black women's stories in all their complexity.
The one book and film agent (i am writing a script too) i wanted and have known for a while has moved out of this country because of various reasons so I have had to look further afield. Info on the book and me coming up...
The is called The Wannabe - At the centre of this memoir is a celebration of the white, brown and black working classes. The unsung heroes and the dirtbags.
It's a true story about danger and love, the art of letter writing, betrayal, mental health and the power of words.
I first started writing it in 2012 though I didn't know I was writing it then. Over the years I have written more and in 2018 I was planning to make it a women foreign correspondents anthology. Now it's more of a memoir.
The idea for the memoir came after author @Louiestowell read my 2018 article in the Telegraph How working on a construction site taught me the truth about Brexit  telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/09/0…
Again I didn't realise it but it's an ethnography of a building site and the working class people who worked there. My original draft which is somewhat different to the published version is included in the book.
So I @SamanthaAsumadu am a crisis campaigner, radical organiser, writer, former documentary filmmaker and breaking news reporter. I founded Media Diversified in 2013 as a vehicle to foreground the voices of people of different ethnicities all over the world
..and campaign on issues she and others cared about that weren’t being addressed. e.g this article I commisioned by former @WritersofColour columnist @MayaGoodfellow mediadiversified.org/2016/04/12/the…
I have written for the Guardian, Telegraph, Open Democracy, Black Ballad, Media Diversified, Ceasefire Magazine and New Statesman & been interviewed on Radio 4 Womans hour, LBC, BBC World & other BBC progs including BBC World Service, BBC London & the Victoria Derbyshire show.
My decades long commitment to grassroots activism led to her campaigning about women’s representation in Theatre, child abuse in war zones, media equity, the Nationality and Borders Bill, Indeterminate Sentence for Public Protection (IPP) and Sickle cell anemia.
As a journalist I was based in East Africa, where she covered stories such as Acid Attacks, Blood Minerals in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Kampala bombings of 2010 for news outlets including CNN, Deutsche Welle, Sky News, France 24 and Agence France Presse.
Its all documented on my youtube channel here: m.youtube.com/channel/UCYG3k…
I directed, scripted and co-produced my first film for Aljazeera English in 2009. (I'm 42) The Super Ladies is about three Ugandan women rally drivers and a race with a dramatic outcome. youtube.com/playlist?list=…
I am a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts thersa.org/blog/2019/03/h…
In 2016 Samantha was a judge at the Editorial Intelligence UK Comment Awards ImageImage
..and was on the advisory panel for the British Film Institute's Black Star Season.
www2.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/n…
In 2019 she was featured in @TimeOutLondon: Meet the Londoner working to change the face of journalism
timeout.com/london/news/me… Image
I @SamanthaAsumadu need a book, radio and film agent. Please help! And you can buy my first book here: mediadiversified.gumroad.com/l/FLOD Image
My email is samantha.asumadu@gmail.com
And links to all my work, articles, interviews, films are here: linktr.ee/SamanthaAsumadu thank you 🙏

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