Emma Dabiri
Broadcaster, historian and bestselling author
About this speaker
Emma Dabiri is an Irish-Nigerian broadcaster, historian and bestselling author. She co-presents Britain’s Lost Masterpieces on BBC 4. She presented Virtually History on YouTube Originals, Back in Time for Brixton and the Back in Time Confectioners series (BBC Two), Is Love Racist? (Channel 4) and has made several social history films for The One Show (BBC).
She's appeared on Newsnight (BBC2), Have I Got News for You (BBC2), Jeremy Vine (Channel 5), Book Tube (YouTube) and Mel B’s special edition of Steph’s Packed Lunch for C4’s Black to Front day.
On radio she has hosted BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Review and Front Row. Emma has authored a landmark Radio 4 documentary, Journeys in Afrofuturism as well as EXPOSED: Young Female Photographers which explores the work of three exciting emerging photographers.
Emma's latest book ‘What White People Can Do Next. From Allyship to Coalition’ released in April 2021 was an immediate Times and Sunday Times bestseller. Her latest documentary Hair Power: Me and My Afro (Channel 4) asked some of the most important questions facing the Black British population - and how it is that hair became one of the most misunderstood, celebrated and debated aspects of the black experience. The documentary went on to win a Cannes Lion Silver award in the Entertainment Category.