An award-winning businesswoman, including British bookseller of the year 2023 and Brighton Business  2023.
Entrepreneur, speaker and event manager, Carolynn Bain has taken Brighton by storm. Her passion to see diversity in a city she loves dearly, and to change the narrative for many black and brown children, led her to create the award-winning bookshop Afrori Books in 2020, a store that specialises in books by black authors. Carolynn has featured as a pioneer on news channels like Sky, ITV, and the BBC, as well as creating Brighton’s first Anti-Racist Kids Club (ARK), which she delivers to schools across Sussex.