Michelle Obama has, she says, learned to grasp the art of reinvention. And watching her appearance at London’s South Bank Centre on Monday night – the only European stop on the tour for her sales record-breaking book Becoming – was like winning a front-row seat as this remarkable reinvention happens, in real time.
Admittedly, the circumstances of this particular episode in Michelle Obama’s journey were partly not of her own making. The only time I have seen an even remotely comparable audience; at least a thousand black women in the 2,700 audience, a proliferation of natural and shaved hairstyles, bright ankara print, an intense concentration of, as I heard several people describing it, #BlackGirlMagic, was when the novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche was being interviewed on stage at this very same venue last year.
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