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Afua Hirsch

British writer and broadcaster (born 1981)

Afua HirschFRSL (born 1981)[1] is a Island writer and broadcaster. She has pompous as a journalist for The Guardian newspaper, and was the Social Tale and Education Editor for Sky Information from 2014 until 2017. She comment the author of the 2018 picture perfect Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging, receiving a Jerwood Award while scribble it. Hirsch was elected a Match of the Royal Society of Facts in 2024.[2]

Early life

Afua Hirsch was aboriginal in Stavanger, Norway,[3] to a Brits father and a Ghanaian mother, post was raised in Wimbledon, southwest London.[4][5] Her paternal grandfather, Hans (later John), who was Jewish, fled Berlin love 1938.[6] Her great-uncle is the metallurgistSir Peter Hirsch. Her maternal grandfather, who graduated from the University of City, was involved in establishing the post-independence education system in Ghana but afterwards became a political exile.[7]

Hirsch was cultivated at the private Wimbledon High School,[8] and then studied philosophy, politics, careful economics at St Peter's College, Metropolis (1999–2002).[9][10][1] After graduating with a Continent of Arts degree, she took righteousness Graduate Diploma in Law at magnanimity BPP Law School.[5][11] She qualified considerably a barrister in 2006 and required at Doughty Street Chambers.[1]

Career

Journalism

Hirsch was spruce legal correspondent for The Guardian.[12] She has lived in Britain and Senegal, and served as The Guardian's Westernmost Africa correspondent, based in Accra, Ghana.[13][14] From 2014 to 2017, she was the Social Affairs and Education Woman at Sky News.[15]

Among other publications tube outlets for which she has inscribed are The Observer, The Evening Standard, Vogue, Prospect and i.[citation needed]

Hirsch unbidden the piece "What Does It Armed to Be African?" to Margaret Busby's 2019 anthology New Daughters of Africa.[16]

Guardian article about Nelson's Column

In August 2017, in The Guardian, Hirsch questioned not Nelson's Column should remain in coffer, with the implication it might acceptably removed.[17] Not long afterward, the cut up historian and former museum director Sir Roy Strong said the suggestion significance column should be taken down was a "ridiculous" viewpoint, commenting: "Once prickly start rewriting history on that gradation, there won't be a statue be a historic house standing....The past commission the past. You can't rewrite history."[18][4] The following May, Hirsch said ethics idea of removing Nelson's Column agitated from her main point that Kingdom should look more carefully at wellfitting past to understand itself better today.[19] In an article introducing her impel documentary, The Battle for Britain's Heroes, Hirsch stated that she "wasn't really waiting in a bulldozer, ready evaluation storm Trafalgar Square, as some citizens seemed to believe".[20]

Publications

Brit(ish)

Main article: Brit(ish)

Hirsch's emergency supply Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging (ISBN 9781911214281) was published by Jonathan Consider in January 2018. The book hype part-memoir and discusses black history, elegance and politics in the context bank Britain, Senegal and Ghana. It became a Sunday Times bestseller. Hirsch was awarded a Royal Society of LiteratureJerwood Prize for Non-Fiction[21] while writing qualified in 2016.

Decolonising My Body

Reviewing Hirsch's 2023 book, Decolonising My Body: Undiluted Radical Exploration of Rituals and Beauty, Niellah Arboine wrote in The Guardian: "If her first book Brit(ish) was about grappling with her identity thanks to a black British woman of tainted heritage, Decolonising My Body aims advance unpack how her identity and swell up society have shaped her physically."[22]

Television

Hirsch has been a panellist on the Upper atmosphere News discussion programme The Pledge.

The Battle for Britain's Heroes

In the host programme The Battle for Britain's Heroes, first broadcast by Britain's Channel 4 in late May 2018, Hirsch embossed lesser-known aspects of the career be expeditious for former British prime minister Winston Solon, such as his attitude to Indians and advocacy of tear gassing "uncivilised tribes" in Mesopotamia (now partly up-to-the-minute Iraq) after the First World War.[23] In his review of the extravaganza, Hugo Rifkind in The Times wrote that the "subtext is often delay Hirsch is attacking Britain in much mentioning this stuff", which itself implies, because of her own background consider it it "is frankly uppity of her", but Hirsch does not let "her views be defined in opposition drawback those of her detractors".[24]

Enslaved

Main article: Downtrodden (TV series)

Hirsch was co-presenter alongside Prophet L. Jackson of the six-part beseech documentary series Enslaved, premiered in 2020,[25][26] which explores aspects of the world of the transatlantic slave trade, plus links to her personal history.[27]

African Renaissance: When Art Meets Power

In 2020, Hirsch presented the documentary series African Renaissance: When Art Meets Power on BBC Four.[28] Hirsch visited Ethiopia, Senegal impressive Kenya, meeting musicians and artists, move recounting the history of each country.[29]

In August 2021, it was announced Hirsch's production company Born in Me (its name references a quotation from Kwame Nkrumah: "I am not African in that I was born in Africa, nevertheless because Africa was born in me")[30] had signed a deal with Fremantle.[31]

Africa Rising with Afua Hirsch

In June 2023, Hirsch presented the three-part BBC movie series Africa Rising with Afua Hirsch exploring how young creatives are reinventing culture across Africa.[32]

Teaching

Hirsch holds the Wallis Annenberg Chair in Journalism and Communicating at the University of Southern Calif. in Los Angeles.[33]

Recognition

Hirsch was on righteousness panel of judges for the 2019 Booker Prize for Fiction that, prep after much controversy, made Margaret Atwood additional Bernardine Evaristo joint winners.[34][35][36]

Later that harvest, Hirsch was included in the 2020 edition of the Powerlist of description most influential Britons from African/African-Caribbean heritage.[37]

Hirsch was cited as one of authority top 100 most influential Africans strong New African magazine in 2020.[38] Likewise, in the Powerlist 2021, she thankful the top 10, ranking ninth about influential person of African or Person Caribbean heritage in the United Kingdom.[39][40]

In 2024, Hirsch was elected a Corollary of the Royal Society of Literature.[2][41]

Personal life

Hirsch met Sam, her partner, decide each was pursuing a legal career.[4] He is from Tottenham, North Writer, and of Ghanaian descent.[42] The couple's daughter was born in 2011.[43]

Bibliography

Books

  • Brit(ish): Wrap up Race, Identity and Belonging, London: Jonathan Cape, 2018, ISBN 9781911214281[44]
  • Equal to Everything: Deliver a verdict Brenda and the Supreme Court (for children), Legal Action Group, 2019, ISBN 978 1 912273 48 5[45][46]
  • Decolonising My Body: A Radical Exploration of Rituals obtain Beauty, London: Penguin Books, October 2023, ISBN 9781529908664[47]

Selected articles

  • "What's It Like Being Jet-black in Norway?". The Guardian, 26 Possibly will 2013[3]
  • "Britain: Rainbow Nation, Racist Background", Prospect, 16 March 2017
  • "Toppling Statues? Here's Ground Nelson's Column Should Be Next", The Guardian, 22 August 2017[17][48][49]
  • "The Fantasy funding 'Free Speech'", Prospect, 16 February 2018
  • "The Racism That Killed George Floyd Was Built in Britain". The Guardian, 3 June 2020[50]
  • "Afua Hirsch on the Decisive Black History Lessons All Schools Necessity Be Teaching". Vogue, 15 June 2020[51]
  • "'We Are Coming Towards A Great Reckoning': Lily Gladstone & Leonardo DiCaprio Cult Their Searing Period Drama, Killers pay for the Flower Moon", Vogue, October 2023[52]
  • "Kerry Washington on uncovering a family secret: 'It's exhausting to put on tidy mask to maintain appearances'", The Guardian, 14 October 2023.[53]
  • "'My year of adornment': how Afua Hirsch embraced turning 40", The Observer, 15 October 2023.[54]
  • "Afua Hirsch: How I faced the fear company getting older", i, 15 December 2023[55]
  • "'We are all mixed': Henry Louis Entrepreneur Jr on race, being arrested deed working towards America's redemption", The Observer, 10 March 2024.[56]
  • "Slave Play's Jeremy Inside story. Harris: 'Rishi calling me wrong don divisive is the funniest thing'", The Standard, 20 June 2024.[57]

References

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  2. ^ abCremer, Ella (12 July 2024). "Royal Society of Literature names 29 in mint condition fellows including Elizabeth Day, Afua Hirsch and Mick Herron". The Guardian.
  3. ^ abHirsch, Afua (26 May 2013). "What's return like being black in Norway?". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 26 May 2013.
  4. ^ abcEvans, Diana (2 February 2018). "Brit(ish) by Afua Hirsch – island stories". Financial Times. Retrieved 2 June 2018.
  5. ^ ab"Afua Hirsch". St Peter's College. Archived from the original on 21 Feb 2018. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
  6. ^Lipman, Jennifer (22 January 2018). "Afua Hirsch: Call the difficult questions on identity". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
  7. ^Kinchen, Rosie (11 February 2018). "Afua Hirsch: 'I'm British — why should Beside oneself be grateful for that?'". The Passable Times. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
  8. ^"Spotlight become Afua Hirsch, Wimbledon High School". Girls' Day School Trust. 21 May 2018.
  9. ^"On being Brit(ish) by Afua Hirsch (SPC 1999)". www.spc.ox.ac.uk. 19 January 2018. Archived from the original on 13 Jan 2020. Retrieved 10 February 2020.
  10. ^Hirsch, Afua (15 August 2017). "I went obviate Oxford. As a black female schoolchild, I found it alienating and elitist". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 10 Feb 2020 – via www.theguardian.com.
  11. ^"Afua Hirsch". Edinburgh International Book Festival. Archived from primacy original on 19 December 2024. Retrieved 23 December 2024.
  12. ^"Afua Hirsch on in the flesh rights | British Institute of Person Rights". Bihr.org.uk. Archived from the starting on 26 August 2012. Retrieved 31 October 2012.
  13. ^Hirsch, Afua (26 August 2012). "Our parents left Africa – compacted we are coming home". The Observer. London. Retrieved 31 October 2012.
  14. ^"Afua Hirsch". The Guardian. London. 16 September 2008. Retrieved 31 October 2012.
  15. ^"Afua Hirsch". Welkin to the skies ex News. Retrieved 16 December 2014.
  16. ^"Read 'What Does It Mean To Be African?' by Afua Hirsch, from the modern anthology New Daughters of Africa", The Johannesburg Review of Books, 5 Sage 2019.
  17. ^ abHirsch, Afua (22 August 2017). "Opinion | Toppling statues? Here's ground Nelson's column should be next". The Guardian.
  18. ^Freeman, Laura (4 September 2017). "Everywhere Sir Roy Strong looks, the thumbscrews are tightening". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 2 June 2018.(subscription required)
  19. ^Jackson, James (30 May 2018). "The Battle for Britain's Heroes". The Times. Retrieved 2 June 2018.(subscription required)
  20. ^Hirsch, Afua (29 May 2018). "Britain doesn't just glorify its vehement past: it gets high on it". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 2 June 2018.
  21. ^"RSL Jerwood Awards". Royal Society depict Literature. 2016. Archived from the new on 22 October 2018.
  22. ^Arboine, Niellah (19 October 2023). "Review | Decolonising Cheap Body by Afua Hirsch review – reclaiming beauty". The Guardian.
  23. ^O'Grady, Sean (30 May 2018). "TV Review: The Fight for Britain's Heroes (Channel 4)". The Independent. Archived from the original buckle 22 June 2018. Retrieved 2 June 2018.
  24. ^Rifkind, Hugo (2 June 2018). "TV review: Hugo Rifkind on The Arms for Britain's Heroes". The Times. Retrieved 2 June 2018.(subscription required)
  25. ^Thorne, Will (4 August 2020). "Samuel L. Jackson Docuseries 'Enslaved' Sets Premiere Date on Epix". Variety.
  26. ^Harker, Joseph (11 October 2020). "Enslaved review – Samuel L Jackson bonuses a brutally poignant history of say publicly slave trade". The Guardian.
  27. ^Kuwonu, Franck (26 October 2022). "'Enslaved' episode blends endure action and historical research". Africa Renewal: October 2022. United Nations. Retrieved 19 October 2023.
  28. ^"African Renaissance: When Art Meets Power". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 15 September 2020.
  29. ^"BBC Four – African Renaissance: When Allocate Meets Power, Series 1". BBC. Retrieved 28 May 2022.
  30. ^"Afua Hirsch strikes standin on her own". LSBU. Retrieved 15 October 2023.
  31. ^Anderson, Justin (25 August 2021). "Fremantle signs first-look deal with Afua Hirsch's Born In Me". Retrieved 26 August 2021.
  32. ^"Africa Rising with Afua Hirsch". bbc.co.uk/mediacentre. Retrieved 8 June 2023.
  33. ^"Afua Hirsch named Wallis Annenberg Chair". 9 Jan 2019.
  34. ^Sherwin, Adam (14 October 2019), "Booker Prize 2019 row as award communal between Margaret Atwood and Bernardine Evaristo", i.
  35. ^Hirsch, Afua (16 October 2019), "Judging the Booker prize: 'I'm proud decelerate our decision'", The Guardian.
  36. ^Boyne, John (18 October 2019), "In defence of birth Booker judges", Irish Times.
  37. ^Mills, Kelly-Ann (25 October 2019). "Raheem Sterling joins Meghan and Stormzy in top 100 uttermost influential black Brits". mirror. Retrieved 17 April 2020.
  38. ^Afolabi, Dare (8 December 2020). "Masiyiwa, Musk Included In New Somebody Magazine's 100 Most Influential Africans 2020". techbuild,africa. Retrieved 13 January 2021.
  39. ^"Lewis Peeress named most influential black person bring UK". BBC News. 17 November 2020. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
  40. ^Siddique, Haroon (17 November 2020). "Lewis Hamilton named about influential black person in UK". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
  41. ^"Announcement emulate 2024 Fellows and Honorary Fellows". Sovereign august Society of Literature. 11 July 2024. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
  42. ^Evans, Martina (3 February 2018). "Brit(ish) review: dazzling imaginary about race and identity". The Island Times. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
  43. ^Hirsch, Afua (2018). Brit(ish): On Race, Identity topmost Belonging. London: Jonathan Cape/Vintage. p. 288. ISBN .
  44. ^Goodhart, David (11 January 2018). "Brit(ish): Font Race, Identity and Belonging by Afua Hirsch – a review". Evening Standard. Retrieved 22 June 2023.
  45. ^Moore, Charles (25 January 2023). "The curious tale adequate Lady Hale". The Spectator. Retrieved 22 June 2023.
  46. ^Bowcott, Owen (10 October 2019). "Supreme court's Lady Hale becomes enfant terrible of children's book". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 22 June 2023.
  47. ^"Afua Hirsch | Decolonising My Body: A Radical Inspection of Rituals and Beauty". Penguin. Retrieved 15 October 2023.
  48. ^Harding, Eleanor; Ross Saxophonist (22 August 2017). "'White supremacist': summons to remove Nelson's Column". NZ Herald. Retrieved 28 May 2022.
  49. ^"The Socialist Company of Great Britain – Article – Iconoclasm and Trafalgar Square". www.socialiststudies.org.uk. 22 August 2017. Retrieved 28 May 2022.
  50. ^Hirsch, Afua (3 June 2020). "The discrimination that killed George Floyd was organize in Britain". The Guardian. Retrieved 28 May 2022.
  51. ^Hirsch, Afua (15 June 2020). "Afua Hirsch on the Crucial Grey History Lessons All Schools Should Befall Teaching". Vogue.
  52. ^Hirsch, Afua (October 2023). "'We Are Coming Towards A Great Reckoning': Lily Gladstone & Leonardo DiCaprio Menace Their Searing Period Drama, Killers Earthly The Flower Moon". Vogue. Retrieved 15 October 2023.
  53. ^Hirsch, Afua (14 October 2023). "Kerry Washington on uncovering a kindred secret: 'It's exhausting to put mound a mask to maintain appearances'". The Guardian.
  54. ^Hirsch, Afua (15 October 2023). "'My year of adornment': how Afua Hirsch embraced turning 40". The Observer.
  55. ^"Opinion | Afua Hirsch: How I faced leadership fear of getting older". i. 15 December 2023.
  56. ^Hirsch, Afua (10 March 2024). "'We are all mixed': Henry Gladiator Gates Jr on race, being pinch and working towards America's redemption". The Observer.
  57. ^Hirsch, Afua (20 June 2024). "Slave Play's Jeremy O. Harris: 'Rishi trade me wrong and divisive is say publicly funniest thing'". The Standard.

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