Words Behind 4Wings @10
A collection of writings gathered from stories told by members and staff of 4Wings CIC, written by Tayo Aluko, and performed in St. George’s Hall, Liverpool, on 25 October 2023.
Published Articles:
- Book Review. Race to the Bottom: Reclaiming Anti-Racism. In Counterfire, August 2023
- The Indigestible African Warrior Seed. Barriers to Bridges Magazine, June 2023
- Mainstream Media as Iago to our Collective Othello. Culture Matters, May 2022
- Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, Heroine of the Nigerian Motherland Counterfire, October 13, 2021
- A Robeson-Influenced Prayer and Birthday Greeting from England. Counterpunch, USA, 22 April 2021 (first in Mumia Journal, 16 April, 2021)
- Why Paul Robeson’s Voice Still Rings True Today. in The Progressive, USA, April 2, 2021
- Staging Your Cases: One Artist’s Argument for More Creative Writing and Performance in Museums. Journal of the Museum Ethnographers’ Group no 34 Accepted Manuscript. Published March 2021
- Our Father, Ten Years in Heaven. Tribute to T.M. Aluko. In ThisDay, Nigeria, May 1, 2020
- “Greatness” In A Time of Covid, in Morning Star, April 27, 2020
- There’s something about that Jeremy Corbyn. Article for Morning Star, December 2019
- Lessons From the Remarkable Life of Paul Robeson, in Counterfire. Part 1; Part 2.
- Mapping Robeson: Review of No Way But This, by Jeff Sparrow, in Camden New Journal, December 2018
- Jeremy Corbyn: A threat to National Security (or Why I’m backing Labour). Published in MORNING STAR, June 2017
- Art As A Weapon to Defend the Oppressed Culture Matters, April 2017
- A Black Man Praises the Police. But P&O? That’s a Different Story. NERVE Magazine, May 2016
- Wilberforce? No Way! (Nerve 9)
- May ’49 Rumblings in Liverpool One (Nerve 11)
- The Rape of the Mother of Achilles (Nerve 12)
- A Christian Greeting to the Former Capital of Culture (Nerve 14)
- This Way for Titanic Housing
- Birth Defects at the Royal? (Nerve 24)
- On Langston Hughes. Dream Deferred (guest blog) December 10, 2014
- Paul Robeson and Me (guest spot) Wales Arts Review, 21 April, 2015
- On Performance and Protest. What’s On Stage, 7 October 2013
- Is This A Time To Consider Racial Equality In Theatre? The Guardian, 14 October 2013
- Diet of Homosexual Fish to Save Africa? Modern Ghana, 27 Dec 2012
- Grave and Present Danger (Morning Star, UK, May 2012)
- On travelling to America with Suspect Material Seattle, Jan 2010
- An Unpleasant Smell. Comment in Architects Journal, 15 June 2009
- Some Called Me Green, But At Last I’m Out of the Blocks. The Guardian, 31 May 2006
Poems
Lumumba’s Tooth
Peace Petals From Merseyside
The Face of Britain
It’s beginning to look a lot like Lagos.
Looters on high.
Silent Statue
To Which God Do White Supremacists Pray?
Twenty Five Years Later.
Bird Song on a New Gut String.
“Greatness” In a Time of Covid.
Tayo Aluko. Wordsmith Services
Tayo Aluko. The Medics’ Wordsmith
Half Moon. A 15-minute play by Tayo Aluko
Unpublished Articles/Letters
- Letter to Joanne Anderson, Mayor of Liverpool in protest against the proposed Electronic Arms Fair to be held in Liverpool. August 2021
- Did Jimmy Reid Ever Meet Paul Robeson? Edinburgh Fringe, August 2010
