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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Lucy Popescu

The List by Yomi Adegoke review – a gripping social media nightmare

‘A nuanced explanation of celebrity culture’: Yomi Adegoke
‘A nuanced explanation of celebrity culture’: Yomi Adegoke. Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi/The Guardian

An author, podcaster and journalist, Yomi Adegoke is well placed to explore the permutations of Black British celebrity culture in the digital age. She co-wrote the bestselling self-help manual Slay in Your Lane: The Black Girl Bible in 2018 and made the Forbes 30 under 30 list three years later.

The power of social media to make and break you is the subject of her much-anticipated debut novel. Ola and Michael are a young, Insta-famous couple, “the king and queen of #BlackLove”. One month before their wedding, a roll call of men working in the UK media who have been identified as sexual abusers and predators is posted on Twitter.

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