#83 FiLiA meets: Esua Jane Goldsmith

Esuantsiwa Jane Goldsmith is a writer, feminist activist and development consultant of English – Ghanaian heritage. In 1975 she was the first woman of colour to be elected President of Leicester University Student’s Union, in 2001 she became the first woman of colour to be elected Chair of the Fawcett Society. In 1977-9 Esua served as one of the first black volunteers to be sent on Voluntary Service Overseas in Tanzania.  She is a woman of firsts. This podcast talks with Esua about her first book: The Space Between Black and White, her memoir and reflections on growing up mixed race in Britain.

You can find out more about Esua on her website, and her publishers Jacaranda and the Twenty in 2020 campaign here.

Buy Esua’s book The Space Between Black and White from Jacaranda.

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