To Be Young, Gifted and Black: Longlisted for the 2026 Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction by Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason #foliosociety ISBN: 9781405961899

ISBN: 9781405961899

the translator of The Travelling Cat Chronicles

Will they succeed in flipping the public narrative

and evolutionary crossroads that paved the way for the world we know today

To Be Young, Gifted and Black: Longlisted for the 2026 Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction by Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason #foliosociety ISBN: 9781405961899DATE OF RELEASE: 6 AUG 2026 What does it mean and how does it feel to grow up as a Black artist today?This exceptional book, written with a mothers love for her seven creative children, sensitively offers profound and original insights and perspectives that enrich our culture. I feel so much wiser for reading it. Bernardine EvaristoWhen Kadiatu Kanneh Masons eldest daughter, Isata, made her solo debut at the BBC Proms in 2023, she could not have been