Welcome to Vol 175 of the Spread!

Hello and welcome back to the Spread, your weekly edit of all the best stories and global news about Africans shaping mainstream culture.

Didn't we just say Happy New Year?

Genuinely. I blinked and February is already gone, March is here, and Q1 is almost done. Fortunately, your faves are keeping pace with the year.

Case in point: Damson Idris just became Formula 1's newest front man; and look, I know everyone is a little bit in love with the man right now. That's fair. That's earned. Brick by brick he's built a career that's impossible to ignore. Formula 1 saw what we all see. They just had the budget to do something about it.

Mary x,

Now on to the real peel 👇

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