Anthropology used to be about studying people whom the brits were colonizing. I'm often, with intent to better understand how to sort of govern those societies. So what drew me to kilburn was that it was a place with exactly that history - stretching all the way back into the colonial era. And i like to take that perspective of taking difference very seriously and using that as a way of looking at british society.
In an increasingly polarised world, it’s not often we get books saying that difference is our greatest strength. But Farhan Samanani is a Canadian social anthropologist, whose recent book, How to Live with Each Other, does just that. It looks at how communities thrive when embracing their diversity. Farhan’s work and studies have taken him around the world but it’s the local, yet no less global, streets of Kilburn, a neighbourhood in northwest London, which informs much of his work. He's joined in conversation by Dipo Faloyin, senior editor and writer at VICE, and author of the book Africa is Not a Country, which focuses on issues of diversity and identity across the African continent.
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