Tomiwa Owolade

Tomiwa Owolade is a freelance writer and the author of This is Not America, which is out in paperback in May.

English curriculum ‘diversity’ sacrifices great literature A campaign by leading authors should focus on merit, not skin colour

11 Dec 2024

Royal Society of Literature has sacrificed merit for inclusivity Major authors are right to criticise the organisation for forgetting its mission

04 Jul 2024

Salman Rushdie: now the censors are progressives The author has claimed that artistic freedom is under attack from all sides

15 Apr 2024

West End play’s ‘black-only’ audience nights are sinister Cultural segregation should not be legitimised by progressive language

29 Feb 2024

The problem with Othering

28 Mar 2023

The Queen saved the Commonwealth

15 Sep 2022

Black kids should study Larkin

29 Jun 2022

The narcissism of America’s race politics

20 May 2022

The future of Anglicanism is African

15 Apr 2022

In defence of wokeness

07 Mar 2022

Norman Mailer wanted to be cancelled

06 Jan 2022

The Godfather of Critical Race Theory

29 Dec 2021

The cult of Christopher Hitchens

15 Dec 2021

We are all Madame Bovary

13 Dec 2021

What does it mean to be black?

27 Oct 2021

Psychoanalysis doesn’t work

18 Oct 2021

The problem with white saviours

13 Sep 2021

Why woke capitalism works

06 Sep 2021

The Godfather of Critical Race Theory

19 Aug 2021

How Christianity kills itself

16 Jul 2021

Antiracism won’t save you

28 Jun 2021

Alfred Hitchcock lived in fear

27 May 2021

Norman Mailer: prisoner of sex

04 May 2021

Can prohibition be progressive?

12 Apr 2021

The black saint against white guilt

29 Mar 2021

Why Naga Munchetty’s racism documentary falls short It covers too much ground in too little time

09 Mar 2021

Free speech warriors are the real puritans

24 Feb 2021

Black radicals don’t need white saviours

11 Feb 2021

Wayne Rooney: Chaucerian hero Vulgarity played an important part in both men's careers

18 Jan 2021

Thank God for liberalism

06 Jan 2021

The dangerous logic of anti-racism

30 Nov 2020