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

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

we see his heart swing between despair and faith

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

and hiding her sexuality from her family

this book is every bit as fun to read as it is instructional

My friends will respect me

there was only one machine for the job

Whatever your barriers to cooking

ISBN: 9781405961899

the translator of The Travelling Cat Chronicles

Will they succeed in flipping the public narrative

codifying cricket

and - as in A Kidnapped West - questions of the Soviet and Western attitudes to Czech culture