Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire - The Sunday Times Bestseller

by Akala

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  Acknowledgements

  I would like to thank my manager Chanelle Newman for everything, Adam Elliot Cooper for all of his insightful criticism and feedback on the manuscript of this book, my editor Kate Hewson for the same reason and my mum for reasons that should be obvious once you’ve read the book. I’d like to big up Professor Gus John, Dr Lez Henry, Andrew Muhammad, Toyin Agbetu, Stafford Scott, Mark and Charmaine Simpson and Paul Reid and Monique from the Black Cultural archives in Brixton. I’d like to thank all of the pioneers of the British Pan-African supplementary school/self-education movement. I’d like to especially thank the staff at the – now defunct – Winnie Mandela School. I’d like to thank Uncle Emmanuel from Centerprise bookstore in Hackney, Maarifa books, New Beacon Bookstore and all of the independent African-Caribbean bookshops up and down the country, most of which are now sadly closed. I’d like to thank my school teachers Anne Taylor, Basil Muhammad and Peter Djurovski and all of the inspiring teachers out there trying to push their students and helping them to find their way in the world. I’d like to thank everyone at the Hip-Hop Shakespeare company and all of the teachers, educators and youth workers who we have had the pleasure of engaging with. I’d like to thank my more recent teachers Esther Standford-Xosei and Robin Walker from whom I have learned so much. Thank you to Steve Strand, David Gilborn, Helen Yaffe and Liam Hogan who all sent me their work to use and answered my annoying barrage of emails! Also a big shout out to Andrew Philipou, Lavar Bullard, Niles Hailstones, Paul Gladstone-Reid, Crystal Mahey-Morgan and Anne Marie-Springer.

  Special thanks to all of the scholars, writers, activists and artists whose work has inspired mine and shaped this book and my life.

  About the Author

  Akala is a BAFTA and MOBO award-winning hip-hop artist, writer and social entrepreneur, as well as the co-founder of The Hip-Hop Shakespeare Company. With an extensive global touring history, Akala has appeared at numerous festivals both in the UK and internationally, and has led innovative projects in the arts, education and music across South East Asia, Africa, India, Australia and New Zealand. Akala has also appeared on Channel 4, ITV, MTV, Sky Arts and the BBC promoting his music and poetry, and speaking on wide-ranging subjects from music, race, youth engagement, British/African-Caribbean culture and the arts, with numerous online lectures and performances that have millions of views on YouTube. In 2018 he was awarded an honorary degree from Oxford Brookes University and the University of Brighton. Widely celebrated for his compelling lectures and journalism – he has written for the Guardian, Huffington Post and the Independent, and spoken for the Oxford Union and TEDx – Akala has gained a reputation as one of the most dynamic and articulate talents in the UK.