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Podcast
Diversity Outdoors “Teenager Mya-Rose Craig, aka Birdgirl talks to Zakiya Mckenzie about her love of green spaces and how to increase diversity outdoors.” https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000mzmc FE Research Podcast “In this special edition we talk with broadcaster, writer, poet, nature lover, PhD candidate Zakiya McKenzie. We talk nature, wellbeing, history of black journalism, Bristol, Power Rangers and…
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DJ Style Show – BBC Local Radio – 27 Feb 2026
Zakiya McKenzie drops in to the DJ Style show on BBC Radio Wiltshire, Feb 27 2026. The programme also aired on BBC Radio Glocestershire.
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Research
On the early Caribbean experience:
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The Forest by Zakiya Mckenzie
In this episode of BBC4’s Night Vision, British-Jamaican nature writer Zakiya Mckenzie goes looking for her past in the darkness of the Forest of Dean. Occupied by one night from her youth spent in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica, Zakiya takes her first trip into an English Forest at night…to discover what the murky history…
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The Resilience Reading Circle inspired by Olive Senior
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Caribbean vs West Indian, BAME vs POC: Whats in a Name
Growing up as I did, I rarely thought about myself as British. My first few years on Earth were spent in south London but then my parents decided to move their young family to Jamaica at the start of the 1990s. It is in capital city Kingston and green and wet Portland that my…
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The Fern Ticket
Written during my year as writer-in-residence for Forestry England The Fern Ticket I *In the Forest of Dean, to have had your first amourous experience in the forest was to get your ‘fern ticket’ A taboo so sweet A myth so endearing A lover’s retreat A comfortable clearing Where prying eyes need not…
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Anti-Apartheid veteran Ahmed Kathrada visits the University of Johannesburg
Kathrada spent 18 years as a political prisoner on Robben Island and another eight at Pollsmoor Maximum Security Prison in Cape Town for his anti-apartheid activism. He was a very close friend of former President Nelson Mandela and upon his release, was elected to parliament.
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Art Deco in Johannesburg
Rogers Cooke designed many theatres and cinemas in Gauteng and the creative crowd followed him to Auckland Park. Everyone who was anyone in the arts and entertainment industry seemed to have a connection with the spot.
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Environmental implication of Joburg’s mining history
The epicentre of the tremor was said to be beneath UJ’s Auckland Park campus by the Council for Geoscience but Dr van Niekerk suspects that a more accurate analysis would find the tremor started at a nearby mine shaft. “It is very difficult to come up with an epicentre because it takes a lot of…