The Bookseller

Akala | 'There is a perception of who reads and who doesn't that just isn't accurate'

Fiona Noble is the former Children's & YA Previews Editor of The Bookseller. Award-winning rapper, graphic novelist and entrepreneur Akala has turned his talent to picture books, with new series ...
Time Out Dubai

Akala interview

Akala is many things: a founder of The Hip Hop Shakespeare Company, which attempts to promote interest in the Bard among rap fans; the brother of Ms Dynamite; and, more importantly, one of the UK’s ...
The Source Magazine

English Rapper And Poet Akala – One Of Global Hip Hop Culture’s Most Important Voices

BAFTA and MOBO award winning Hip Hop artist, writer/poet and historian, AKALA is a label owner and social entrepreneur who fuses unique rap/rock/electro-punk sound with fierce lyrical storytelling.
The Guardian

Akala: ‘I saw someone get stabbed when I was 12'

The activist and rapper, 35, on justice for Grenfell, knife crime, Shakespeare and reincarnation Contradictory is how I’d describe my childhood. My earliest memories are performing Ray Charles’s Shake ...