Motherland.Mother-Tongue

The Foundation and Space to Create and Explore

I am the son of two migrant parents who, both on their own separate course, journeyed from West Africa to the United Kingdom: a modern voyage that echoes the tales of imperial and colonial relationships of the past. Being raised in a context assorted with British identity and West African heritage, immersed me in a complex conversation with the themes of identity, culture and belonging from the outset. A dialogue where my body relays a tale of the Motherland and my tongue in isolation speaks of a different language and place.

As a consequence I have been simultaneously privileged in ways and disenfranchised in other ways. I have experienced the warmth of inclusion and also the pains of exclusion and my desire to belong has simultaneously been countered by my desire to be an individual. These tensions are at the heart of who I am and by extension my therapeutic practice. I intimately know how important it is to have a place to simply be and act in favour of my own flourishing and I care to extend the same hospitality to you. This Blog space is a further extension of my own intents to grapple with how ideas, theory, history, lived experiences, current affairs, the arts and popular culture intersect with the therapeutic field.