Kwame Kwei-Armah : Exclusive Interview From The Interview Online
Kwame Kwei-Armah
The UK's leading playwright of black issues tells Nicola Barranger about his latest work Statement of Regret which has just opened at London's National Theatre.
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His new play deals with both consummate grief and the conflict between the UK's African and African Caribbean communities. Set in a Black policy think tank which has seen better times Statement of Regret dissects the legacy of 400 years of slavery and takes up the debate of "post traumatic slave syndrome".