My mother is from the Amhara people of Ethiopia. It is a tradition of the Amhara to leave messages in the first name of the child. In Amharic the name Lemn means Why?”

The way you strengthen open your communication with Spirit is through willingness. It's maintaining warmth and presence in your heart. After that, run ReiBoot for Android and connect the smartphone via USB cable. Choose the 'Repair Android System' on the interface. I’m not angry any more, but it’s a daily battle not to be. It would be tragic to be 55 and still consumed with anger. That’s no way to live a life. People sometimes say that anger can fuel a journey, but it always becomes toxic. I wouldn’t have achieved anything if I’d stayed angry. Making my own ice-cream mashups. Start with a tub of vanilla ice-cream then add Nutella, M&M’s, crunchy peanut butter – I could go on.Press Association (3 June 2019). "Poet and playwright Lemn Sissay wins the PEN Pinter prize". The Guardian. London . Retrieved 3 June 2019. Unfortunately, this was quite a tedious read. I really did not like the way Sissay decided to format the book, with most of the narrative being told in social work/government entries, with little-to-no exposition made on Sissay's part; almost like inserting a quote in an essay and that being the sentence, with no analysis. In May 2021, Sissay appeared on BBC One's Have I Got News for You, hosted by Romesh Ranganathan, alongside fellow panellists Ian Hislop, Paul Merton and Jo Brand. [32]

The most amazing thing about this book is that it’s not made up. This actually happened. It is an incredible story” If you tune into the presence of something in your space but it feels negative, heavy, strange, or honestly, if you get freaked out or scared, call in Archangel Michael to surround you with light, to protect you, and to release any negative beings, attachments, or earthbound energies into the light. MA Education 2023. St Jude's Church, Dulwich Road, Herne Hill, London SE24 0PB, a company registered in England and Wales no. 04002826. MA Education is part of the Mark Allen Group. All Rights Reserved You can't help feeling anger and despair when reading this — I recommend the audiobook. So much of this story is heartbreaking but the damning documents by social services which serve as proof that he was not only denied his real family, his heritage, and his name but also the permission to dream, propels that feeling into something much deeper. In 1967, a young Ethiopian woman who was studying in England gave birth to a baby. Not long after, she returned to her native country alone.

Lemn Sissay is a BAFTA-nominated, award-winning writer and broadcaster. He has authored collections of poetry and plays. His Landmark poems are visible in London, Manchester, Huddersfield and Addis Ababa. He has been made an Honorary Doctor by the universities of Manchester, Kent, Huddersfield and Brunel. Sissay was awarded an MBE for services to literature and in 2019 he was awarded the PEN Pinter Prize. He is Chancellor of the University of Manchester. He is British and Ethiopian.

My Name is Why is, itself, strong evidence of an individual who does not own their personal history. If one discounts the reports included in the book, Sissay’s narrative feels threadbare and perplexing – his internal monologue not tallying with the external world he experiences. That these reports have only recently been released to Sissay should emphasise how impossible a task it was for a young man to reconcile his interior and exterior life when he was given none of the insight the adults around him purported to have (until 16, he didn’t even know that Norman Greenwood was not his real name!). It's a beautiful thing. I'm actually writing the speech for it, as we speak, but it's quite intimidating to follow Chimamanda Adichie but I'm going to do a good job. I'm going to do my absolute best.When you hear your name and remain in a calm, relaxed space where you're focused within you're then able to tune into more! Shaffi, Sarah; Knight, Lucy (12 July 2022). "Adjoa Andoh, Russell T Davies and Michaela Coel elected to Royal Society of Literature". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 23 June 2023. Sissay only managed to get hold of file from social services in Wigan n 2015, after thirty years of asking. He used what was in his file to help tell his story and there are extensive quotes from it in the book. Sissay also intersperses the book with poetry: Sissay, Lemn (1 January 2016). "Orphans, foundlings and fostering in literature: a child's view of belonging". The Guardian. London . Retrieved 2 November 2017.