Desta Haile Author

Desta Haile is a British-Eritrean writer, researcher, educator and musician whose work explores hidden histories and the African diaspora. A former Deputy Director of the Royal African Society, she has worked across Film Africa and Africa Writes, and her writing has appeared in Specimen Press, Afritondo and Bad Form Review. Inspired by the discovery of her late father’s connection to the Black Beauty Model Agency, she spent more than a decade researching its remarkable history.