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Afua Hirsch

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    Afua Hirsch, Author and Journalist

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    Journalist and author Efua Hirsch discusses her debut book *British*, detailing her personal journey of reconciling mixed-race identity and complex family history involving Dutch slave traders and Nazi survivors. She critiques the fragility of the British public in confronting uncomfortable truths about national figures like Admiral Nelson, arguing that erasing such history creates a propaganda-driven society rather than one grounded in reality. Hirsch attributes the heightened racial equity discourse of 2020 to the cumulative impact of the Black Lives Matter movement, the pandemic's removal of distractions, and a global rise in right-wing extremism that forced a re-evaluation of societal values.