![]() ![]() The utter indifference of media and the rest of society to their fate led directly to a march on parliament by twenty thousand black people. If David Olusoga’s Black and British was a history of Black people in Britain, Natives takes aspects of modern British society and traces their roots back into Britain’s imperial past – a past which present-day citizens have been taught to see only through blinkers and some heavily rose-tinted spectacles.Īkala was born in 1981, the year that began with the New Cross Fire, in which 13 black children died in what was widely believed at the time to have been an arson attack. If I come across a link to one of them on Twitter, I always click on it, knowing that what I will hear / read will be insightful, challenging, thought-provoking and scholarly. people that grew up like us know just how real this statement is, how easily the scales could have been tipped.”Īs a white woman on the upper end of middle age, it’s not surprising that I know Akala not from his music, but from his articles and speeches. “When I say I could have been a statistic – another working-class black man dead or in prison. Only literary prize in the UK to only accept entries by writers of ![]() For Book of the Year by a Writer of Colour, is an annual literary prizeĪwarded to British or British-resident writers. ![]()
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