Lindsay Johns
Lindsay Johns is a British writer and broadcaster of South African heritage.
He read modern languages at Oxford University and has been a nonresidential fellow at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University.
He writes about books and theater for The Daily Telegraph and the Times Literary Supplement. He has also written for The Times and The Spectator in the United Kingdom, The Root and Africa Is a Country in the United States and Cape Argus in South Africa.
In addition, he writes and presents BBC radio and TV arts documentaries, such as on South African novelist Alex La Guma, Jazz Age painter Archibald Motley, Jr., Martinican philosopher Frantz Fanon, Harlem Renaissance writer Rudolph Fisher and Oakland-based novelist Ishmael Reed.
He is a fellow of the British-American Project and a patron and volunteer, respectively, with UK educational charities Shakespeare Schools Foundation and Classics For All.
For twenty years, Johns served as a volunteer mentor with Leaders of Tomorrow, a grassroots leadership scheme for Black students in Peckham, South London.
In 2023, he was endowed the Clément Olympe Lavanne prize at Oxford University for his work in Francophone literature, in honor of his Martinican “second dad”.
His website is www.lindsayjohns.com.