Alec is one of 70,000 graduates in Wisconsin to complete a trejectory certificate. He has always been interested in computers but never thought he could travel on his own. Alec was inspired by the stories we tell ourselves to survive day-to-day. His book looks at what sometimes gets branded as identity politics and how it can be used for good or bad.
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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