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Janine Francois

Janine is a Cultural Studies lecturer and Black feminist cultural producer and curator

‘Mis-Teeq were huge at one time. If their record label Telstar had not gone bust at the point when their careers were taking off in 2005, who knows how much bigger they could have been?’ asks Janine Francois

How the UK failed Black Britain’s would-be pop superstars