Roxanne Jones takes the reader on a baby's journey towards discovering their place in the social world. What does that teach us about the development of our identities and difference yet? "Nurture is our nature, right? Our nature is to become different in relation to specific cultural environment" She says we are always going to grow and develop into different sorts of people with different perspectives,. Different values, different orientations towards the world.
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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