by Ngaio Anyia | Oct 7, 2020 | Hair
I’ve had a lot of people ask about my purple fro over the years and let me tell you, it’s been a journey. I’ve experimented with bleaches and box dyes; had great successes and devastating failures and it’s all been in the pursuit of the perfect...
by Ngaio Anyia | Sep 23, 2020 | Journal
It’s hard to know how to start this – it feels strange, like reaching out to someone you fell out of love with after giving them the silent treatment. But it’s not you I fell out with, it’s me. The truth is the past year has been so...
by Ngaio Anyia | Jul 18, 2020 | Inclusion & Diversity
There’s been a whole lot of firsts this month. First of all I may or may not have embarked on my presenting debut doing a doc for BBC World whilst in the ends of Lockdown… https://www.instagram.com/p/CCvYaTojRF6/ Monumental is out today on BBC News and BBC...
by Ngaio Anyia | Jun 25, 2020 | Festivals
I’m not sure how it occurred but my mum got tickets for us to go to Glasto with a group of her friends. At 12 I was the youngest of the kids and had a huge crush of the son of one of my mum’s friends. My memory is somewhat patchy but a few incidents stick...
by Ngaio Anyia | Jun 6, 2020 | Inclusion & Diversity
Exhausted. That’s what we are. As a community, we are exhausted at having to have this conversation and deal with the expected response of ‘oh, but is it really that bad?’ ‘oh, is it really happening here though?’ ‘oh , but do you...