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What it means to be a black African in London

While poverty and racial prejudice disturbingly persist, Jimi Famurewa prefers to celebrate the vigour of the black community’s churches, markets, clubs and restaurants

5 November 2022

9:00 AM

5 November 2022

9:00 AM

Settlers: Journeys Through the Food, Faith and Culture of Black African London Jimi Famurewa

Bloomsbury Continuum, pp.320, 18.99

Since 2011, black Africans have been the dominant black group in the UK. Many of them are the descendants of those travellers who came to London in the 1950s from Nigeria, Ghana and Somalia and other African countries, seeking education and prosperity, and found a new home. They now not only hold prominent positions in British culture – from Bafta and Emmy award-winning Michaela Coel to the rap artist and publishing imprint founder Stormzy – but have reached those heights by using their experiences and heritage to explore what it means to be black British.

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