Hail Mary with Funmi Fetto and Emma Dabiri

Join Funmi Fetto and Emma Dabiri to discuss the launch of Hail Mary, Funmi’s powerful new collection of short stories, in which nine Nigerian women discover what it means to confront societal, cultural and religious ideas that have held them back for too long.

Funmi Fetto is the author of the bestselling book Palette: The Beauty Bible for Women of Colour. Her short story ‘Unspoken’ which is included in Hail Mary, was shortlisted for the V S Pritchett Prize.  Funmi is currently the Style Editor at British Vogue and has worked and written for numerous publications including Vanity Fair, Sunday Times Style, the FT, The Guardian, Tatler and the Observer where she writes a weekly column.  Her work largely intersects across art, beauty, culture, race and identity.

Emma Dabiri FRSL is an award-winning broadcaster and Sunday Times bestselling author of Don’t Touch My Hair, What White People Can Do Next and Disobedient Bodies. A Contributing Editor at ELLEUK and a columnist at The Guardian, she has presented numerous history, arts and culture series on both TV and radio, including Journeys in Afrofuturism, the BBC’s Back in Time and Britain's Lost Masterpieces.