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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Isobel Van Dyke

Your autumn reading list - courtesy of ‘Okha’, the queer Black book club

K Bailey Obazee is possibly London’s coolest librarian. She’s a DJ by night, but by day is the founder of Prim: a library and digital platform that celebrates and showcases queer, Black stories. More than just an online platform, Prim - as in ‘prim and proper’ - soon grew to have many branches and in 2019 Okha was born.

Meaning ‘story’ or ‘tale’ in the Edo language of Nigeria, Okha is the monthly book club hosted in various London locations, founded with the objective to “showcase the breadth of Black British authors, as well as authors from around the world”.

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