Strato Nyman couldn’t be more of an odd-one-out. He’s the only black kid in Hedgecombe-upon-Dray, he knows more about particle physics than his teacher, and he’s constantly picked on by school bully Lloyd Archibald Turnbull. It’s only at home that he blends in to the background – his parents are too busy arguing to notice he exists....

Estate agent Frankie Blue is known on his home turf - White City, Shepherd\'s Bush - as \'Frank theFib\'. He\'s a liar - but one who always tries to tell the truth. He has been friends with Diamond Tony, a hairdresser, Colin, a computer nerd, and Nodge, a cabbie, since schooldays....

This wide–ranging, multidisciplinary collection of newly commissioned articles brings together distinguished voices in the field of Africana philosophy and African–American social and political thought....