In tivy's political claims, there is almost nothing fixed about how we form our identities, yet we treat identity with deadly seriousness. How do you think people should look at the concept of identities? Right? So this is another place where we can draw a lot of interesting inside from anthropology. Because what anthropology teaches us, on the one hand, is that identity is this usually flexible thang,.
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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