Speakers
Sharmadean Reid
Erika Brodnock
Tendai Moyo
MICHAEL TEFULA
Afua Hirsch
Afua Hirsch is an award-winning writer, journalist, former barrister and filmmaker, known for storytelling on culture, identity and social justice. She co-presented Enslaved, a 6-part series about the transatlantic slave trade with Samuel L Jackson, a podcast series for Audible We Need To Talk About the British Empire, and African Renaissance, an ongoing flagship series about art and culture for the BBC, through her production company Born in Me.
A journalist for more than twenty years, Afua is the author of the bestselling book Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging, winner of the Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Prize, and three other books including Equal To Everything, a bestselling book about the UK Supreme Court, Empire: Look Again published by Tate, and the forthcoming Decolonising My Body, published by Penguin this October. Afua is a professor of Journalism at the University of Southern California, and holds a degree from Oxford University, and honorary doctorates from London’s South Bank University and The University of Oxford Brookes.
www.afuahirsch.com
Dr Shola Mos-Shogbamimu
Kelechi Okafor
Jacqueline Onalo
Tiwa King
Teshay Makeda
Kanaiza
