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National Portrait Gallery Commissions Ben Okri Poem To Freed Slave Ayuba Suleiman Diallo

by News Desk | Aug 7, 2013 | News

The Booker Prize winning writer Ben Okri has been commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery to write a new poem to be incorporated into a special display of its loaned painting of Ayuba Suleiman Diallo, the first portrait of a black African Muslim and freed slave....
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