A lot of that concept, a big driver of that idea is, as as you know, nactural survival is man made. It's ansy political expediency. When you speak to people in kilburne or in your own communities, do you find that they've often taken that as fact? I think part of the challenge is, though, that when people try to build stuff, the models that they have for building ways of coming together themselves often produce this idea,. So this comes back to exactly what you said, wrightits really, it's very institutionallizens very institutionalized or the structure.
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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