Who is tumi?

Coming up for air

When I was aged 10, the farmers used to come round the schools to pick volunteers to work on the farms during the summer holidays, mainly to help bring in the harvest. The country was still building u

Stories of travel and estrangement

AMIRA tramped slowly uphill in the heat of the late afternoon to her flat, sipping from a takeaway iced coffee. She wondered what to do with her evening – read or prepare for the following day? Flat?

EDITE Sells Brazilian street paper Aurora da Rua in Salvador My name is Edite and I’m an Aurora da Rua vendor. At first I was only a reader. I bought every issue in person from Rhunna, a vendor who, b

Behind the irresistible rise of his elegant folk-pop-soul lie identity crises and recurrent rejections. A new album reveals a bolder, “bolshier” artist, but still with much to prove. “I have to keep polishing my knives,” says Michael Kiwanuka.