Fiona Noble is the Children's & YA Previews Editor of The Bookseller. Award-winning rapper, graphic novelist and entrepreneur Akala has turned his talent to picture books, with new series endorsing a ...

I discovered Akala the way most people discovered Akala, he was on Channel U spitting his heart out while sat atop a policecar in his video Banger for the Streets. But although it was the beat and the ...

Akala is many things: a founder of The Hip Hop Shakespeare Company, which attempts to promote interest in the Bard among rap fans; the brother of Ms Dynamite; and, more importantly, one of the UK’s ...