Ekow Eshun: Black Gold of the Sun Anthony Gerrity Dillon’s libretto ruminates on the

Dillon’s libretto ruminates on the conditions and capaciousness of Black performance as experienced through the Black operatic

The Assassination of Pier Paolo Pasolini in the Garden of Earthly Delights

Exhibiting under a pseudonym since the beginning of her career in the 1970s

expressed here through Hughes’s poetic prose

Annette Kamp

Ekow Eshun: Black Gold of the Sun Anthony Gerrity Dillon’s libretto ruminates on thePenguin, 2006, softcover, 240 pages, 19 x 13 cm 'Where are you from?' 'No, where are you really from?' These questions, which he has been asked since boyhood, drive Ekow Eshun to travel through Ghana in search of his roots, and lead him on an exploration of history and belonging, from slavery in Africa and the West to the present day and what it means to be black. In search of answers, Ekow unearths yet more questions, some shocking contradictions and