Economics editor of BBC News Kamal Ahmed grew up in 1970s London, at a time when being mixed-race meant being told to “go home” even though he was born just down the road. The son of an English mother and a Sudanese father, Ahmed utilises both honesty and comedy to return to his childhood and trace his unique coming-of-age story. Funny and profound in equal measure, The Life and Times of a Very British Man is an important contribution to current debate about identity and race in the UK. Fundamentally optimistic, Ahmed explores why British diversity is the very foundation of the nation as we know it.
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