Afua Hirsch

journalist and author

Afua Hirsch is an award-winning journalist and author, known for her work on culture, identity and social justice. She presents the flagship BBC documentary Africa Rising, the global series Enslaved with Samuel L Jackson, and the podcast Legacy, and is founder of her production company Born in Me Productions. She is the author of Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging, Equal To Everything and Decolonising My Body, A Radical Exploration of Rituals and Beauty. A journalist for two decades, she is a former Guardian correspondent, associate editor at Vogue, and professor of journalism at the University of Southern California.

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