JOAN ANIM-ADDO is Emeritus Professor and Director of the Centre for Caribbean and Diaspora Studies (Goldsmiths, London). She is a poet, librettist and scholar. Her writing includes Janie, Cricketing Lady (poetry); Imoinda (libretto); Longest Journey: A History of Black Lewisham and Touching the Body: History, Language and African-Caribbean Women’s Writing. She is Associate Editor of Callaloo, Journal of Diaspora Arts and Letters and a Senior Fellow, HEA. She is a member of the editorial board of Transition Magazine (Harvard). Her recent publications include the co-authored This is the Canon: Decolonize your Bookshelf in 50 Books (Greenfinch).