After the second world war, british government encouraged emigration into the country to help rebuild the nation. The wind rush was a ship that was leaving from jamaica with unsold seats and some jamaican ontrapinters basically said, hey, yenow cheap tickets. And because it was sort of an unplanned migration is away, the government panicked; they spent 14 years trying to prove migrants were problem. It took them 14 years to find their own citizens, or subjects, based on the narrative of social disruption. Aces: "The book tries to trace how we've come, in the post world war era, to think of difference as a threat"
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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