Mother Tongue

Writing and performing for more than ten years, during which he has been commissioned to write poems for galleries including the Tate Modern, the National Portrait Gallery, and Keats House, as well as organisations such as the Damilola Taylor Trust. Denouncing homophobia and racism, last summer he made a BBC 1Xtra documentary with SBTV presenter Georgia Lewis Anderson called No Homo: Hip Hop's Last Taboo. The programme highlighted what Atta feels is the rejection of gay people by rap culture, and in January, his groundbreaking poem I Am Nobody's Nigger went viral, receiving over 30,000 hits on YouTube. His play Queen Pokou, based on the mythological West African princess, is currently being performed on the London fringe. ,