SuAndi was born in Hulme, Manchester, in 1951, and is of Nigerian and British (Anglo-Irish) heritage. Describing herself as “the Nigerian daughter of a Liverpool mother” (2009, 34), SuAndi identifies as a very Northern, working class, Black artist. Her career is as multi-faceted as her identity. She was a dancer and model, managed a successful restaurant, and was employed as a social worker when she made her first appearance as a performance poet in 1985. She continued her modelling, dancing, and social work alongside performances, until 1987 when she became a full-time performance poet, live artist, and writer. To date, she has written four poetry collections:
Style in Performance(1990),
Nearly Forty(1992),
There Will Be No Tears(1995) and
I Love the Blackness of My People(2003);…
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Citation: Butler, Louise. "SuAndi". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 09 February 2016 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13638, accessed 18 December 2024.]
