Stella Dadzie: A Whole Heap of Mix Up

Lawrence Wishart, 2025, softcover, 200 pages, 22 x 14 cm 

Reflections from a life lived in the struggle by black British feminist and activist, Stella Dadzie. Stella Dadzie has been a key figure in the black women’s movement in Britain since the 1970s. This unique new collection showcases her personal, political and creative writing, covering themes from her family life and early years to political activism, travel in Africa and the Caribbean, and race and gender inequalities in Britain.

Featuring short stories, poems, speeches and travel writings, in addition to personal photographs and a curated selection of her artwork in a photo spread at its centre, this definitive collection presents Dadzie as never seen before: raw, funny and human; artist and activist. The book offers new insights into the issues that defined a generation of black women and will be an instant classic in the black British feminist canon. Curated by one of Britain’s foremost black women activists in her lifetime, it offers a unique new contribution to the literature on black women’s lives in Britain.