[6] She read Law at Durham University, and subsequently worked in the media, including as a radio presenter and a television researcher.
[5] She is now divorced from her artist husband, Martin Bedford, but they still maintain a friendly relationship, even sharing space together in a house in Devon.
"[9] A five-part abridgement of Yoruba Girl Dancing (by Margaret Busby, read by Adjoa Andoh and produced by David Hunter) was broadcast on BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime in October 1991.
[13] Drawing on its author's own ancestral history, Not With Silver is unique among books about slavery in depicting the lives of people in Africa before they were enslaved.
[4] The Spectator's reviewer concluded: "This relentlessly honest book has no false or sentimental notes, absolutely no prettifying.