Akala - British rapper, journalist, author, activist and poet - takes his experiences growing up in London in a single parent household to investigate the reality of race and class in the UK. Exploring Black identity, both male and female, interweaving political history and autobiography - mixed race heritage, education, incidents with the police as a teenager and later as a young black man - he persuasively demonstrates that perceptions and attitudes are indelibly intertwined and shaped by the acquisition, expansion and finally the loss of the British Empire.
(Helen Allan - bwl 100 Spring 2021 ) |
