Aniefok Ekpoudom’s upcoming book, entitled Where We Come From: Rap, Home and Hope in Modern Britain, is due to be published in 2024. Ekpoudom is an investigative writer who has traveled across the UK, exploring the origins and growth of UK rap and grime music, examining how migration and a spirit of resistance has contributed to its evolution.
Through his visits to areas such as South London, the West Midlands, and South Wales, Ekpoudom contemplates the subjects of resilience, courage, identity, place, and the social and human condition in Britain. Through writing Where We Come From, Ekpoudom hopes to shape conversations not just about UK rap and grime, but about British music as a whole.
The book has already received high praise from numerous individuals in the publishing industry. Candice Carty-Williams celebrates it as “a stunning exploration of a genre, a movement and a world,” while Yomi Adegoke declares it “a landmark work that will undoubtedly shape conversations about not just UK rap and grime, but British music for years to come.”
To commemorate the release of Where We Come From: Rap, Home and Hope in Modern Britain, Aniefiok ‘Neef’ Ekpoudom, will be hosting a discussion panel at the Queen Elizabeth Hall at the Southbank Centre. Joining Ekpoudom at the event will be Candice Carty-Williams, a bestselling author and showrunner, and Yuṣof ‘Yomi’ Ṣode, a Nigerian-British writer and poet who won the 2019 Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowship.
Ekpoudom is a highly decorated writer himself, having won the Barbara Blake-Hannah Award at the 2021 British Journalism Awards and the Culture Writer of the Year Award at the 2021 Freelance Writers Awards. Additionally, he was named on the Forbes 30 Under 30 List in Media & Marketing, further acknowledging his accomplishments.
Pre-orders for Where We Come From: Rap, Home and Hope in Modern Britain are available on Waterstones’ website
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