There's a really great line in the book, you say, kilburn teems with difference. Were sort of people saw in that difference a sort of creative resource for remaking their lives? And i think the other thing that was really worth learning from kilburn was the way in which difference could be a resourch es fright. The book isn't just about challenging the stories that we tell about migration or diversity or race, but actually challenging the storiesthat we tell about difference more generally.
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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