Written By: Nicole Parker- Jones—One Love Two Colours: The Unlikely Marriage of a Punk Rocker and His African Queen is a true story about love and marriage told from the viewpoint of a Nigerian woman (Margaret Oshindele-Smith) and an English man (Bobby Smith). It is also a book about race, relationships and identity. Co-author Bobby Smith shares about his and his wife's labor of love:
One Love looks at the true life marriage between myself (an English, working class punk rocker) and Margaret (a middle class, Nigerian Methodist). We have been married for 10 years and the book shows how a succesful interracial marriage can be achieved. It shirks no issues, ranging from: racism, identity, colour-grading, sex, food and religion. You might be interested to know that our motivation for writing this book was to show interracial marriages in a positive light, as they are normally seen as impossible dreams, doomed to failure. We also wanted to write a book specifically about the black woman/white man experience, as most books on interracial relationships come from the other side of the hill. If nothing else we can guarantee the reader a 100 per cent honest book with humour never far away from our story. Enjoy!
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