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div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">Afua Hirsch</div><div class="honorific-suffix" style="font-size: 77%; font-weight: normal;"><a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society_of_Literature" class="mw-redirect" title="Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature">FRSL</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Afua_Hirsch_-_Fullsizeoutput_8943.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Afua_Hirsch_-_Fullsizeoutput_8943.jpg/220px-Afua_Hirsch_-_Fullsizeoutput_8943.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Afua_Hirsch_-_Fullsizeoutput_8943.jpg/330px-Afua_Hirsch_-_Fullsizeoutput_8943.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/53/Afua_Hirsch_-_Fullsizeoutput_8943.jpg/440px-Afua_Hirsch_-_Fullsizeoutput_8943.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3024" data-file-height="4032" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Hirsch in 2017</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data">1981 (age 42–43)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Stavanger" title="Stavanger">Stavanger</a>, Norway</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Wimbledon_High_School" title="Wimbledon High School">Wimbledon High School</a>;<br /><a href="/wiki/St_Peter%27s_College,_Oxford" title="St Peter's College, Oxford">St Peter's College, Oxford</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation(s)</th><td class="infobox-data role">Journalist, broadcaster</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span style="white-space:nowrap;">Notable work</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><i><a href="/wiki/Brit(ish):_On_Race,_Identity_and_Belonging" class="mw-redirect" title="Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging">Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging</a></i> (2018)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Relatives</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Peter_Hirsch" title="Peter Hirsch">Peter Hirsch</a> (great-uncle)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://afuahirsch.com">afuahirsch<wbr />.com</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Afua Hirsch</b> <a href="/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society_of_Literature" class="mw-redirect" title="Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature">FRSL</a> (born 1981)<sup id="cite_ref-About_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-About-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is a British writer and broadcaster. She has worked as a journalist for <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i> newspaper, and was the Social Affairs and Education Editor for <a href="/wiki/Sky_News" title="Sky News">Sky News</a> from 2014 until 2017. She is the author of the 2018 book <i><a href="/wiki/Brit(ish):_On_Race,_Identity_and_Belonging" class="mw-redirect" title="Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging">Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging</a></i>, receiving a <a href="/wiki/Jerwood_Award" title="Jerwood Award">Jerwood Award</a> while writing it. Hirsch was elected a Fellow of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Society_of_Literature" title="Royal Society of Literature">Royal Society of Literature</a> in 2024.<sup id="cite_ref-Guardian_FRSL_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guardian_FRSL-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Afua_Hirsch&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Afua Hirsch was born in <a href="/wiki/Stavanger" title="Stavanger">Stavanger</a>, Norway,<sup id="cite_ref-What's_it_like_being_black_in_Norway?_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-What's_it_like_being_black_in_Norway?-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to a British father and a Ghanaian mother, and was raised in <a href="/wiki/Wimbledon,_London" title="Wimbledon, London">Wimbledon</a>, southwest London.<sup id="cite_ref-DEvans2018_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DEvans2018-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Afua_Hirsch_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Afua_Hirsch-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Her paternal grandfather, Hans (later John), who was Jewish, fled <a href="/wiki/Berlin" title="Berlin">Berlin</a> in 1938.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Her great-uncle is the <a href="/wiki/Metallurgist" class="mw-redirect" title="Metallurgist">metallurgist</a> <a href="/wiki/Peter_Hirsch" title="Peter Hirsch">Sir Peter Hirsch</a>. Her maternal grandfather, who graduated from the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Cambridge" title="University of Cambridge">University of Cambridge</a>, was involved in establishing the post-independence education system in Ghana but later became a political exile.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Hirsch was educated at the private <a href="/wiki/Wimbledon_High_School" title="Wimbledon High School">Wimbledon High School</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and then studied <a href="/wiki/Philosophy,_politics,_and_economics" class="mw-redirect" title="Philosophy, politics, and economics">philosophy, politics, and economics</a> at <a href="/wiki/St_Peter%27s_College,_Oxford" title="St Peter's College, Oxford">St Peter's College, Oxford</a> (1999–2002).<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-About_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-About-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree, she took the <a href="/wiki/Common_Professional_Examination" title="Common Professional Examination">Graduate Diploma in Law</a> at the <a href="/wiki/BPP_Law_School" title="BPP Law School">BPP Law School</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Afua_Hirsch_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Afua_Hirsch-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She qualified as a barrister in 2006 and trained at <a href="/wiki/Doughty_Street_Chambers" title="Doughty Street Chambers">Doughty Street Chambers</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-About_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-About-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Afua_Hirsch&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Afua_Hirsch.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Afua_Hirsch.jpg/200px-Afua_Hirsch.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="230" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Afua_Hirsch.jpg/300px-Afua_Hirsch.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/Afua_Hirsch.jpg/400px-Afua_Hirsch.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3008" data-file-height="3456" /></a><figcaption>Hirsch in 2014</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Journalism">Journalism</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Afua_Hirsch&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Journalism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Hirsch was a legal correspondent for <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She has lived in Britain and <a href="/wiki/Senegal" title="Senegal">Senegal</a>, and served as <i>The Guardian</i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s West Africa correspondent, based in <a href="/wiki/Accra" title="Accra">Accra</a>, Ghana.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From 2014 to 2017, she was the Social Affairs and Education Editor at <a href="/wiki/Sky_News" title="Sky News">Sky News</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Among other publications and outlets for which she has written are <i><a href="/wiki/The_Observer" title="The Observer">The Observer</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Evening_Standard" class="mw-redirect" title="The Evening Standard">The Evening Standard</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Vogue_(magazine)" title="Vogue (magazine)">Vogue</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Prospect_(magazine)" title="Prospect (magazine)">Prospect</a></i> and <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=I_news&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="I news (page does not exist)">i</a></i>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Hirsch contributed the piece "What Does It Mean to Be African?" to <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Busby" title="Margaret Busby">Margaret Busby</a>'s 2019 anthology <i><a href="/wiki/Daughters_of_Africa#New_Daughters_of_Africa" title="Daughters of Africa">New Daughters of Africa</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Guardian_article_about_Nelson's_Column"><span id="Guardian_article_about_Nelson.27s_Column"></span><i>Guardian</i> article about Nelson's Column</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Afua_Hirsch&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Guardian article about Nelson's Column"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In August 2017, in <i>The Guardian</i>, Hirsch questioned whether <a href="/wiki/Nelson%27s_Column" title="Nelson's Column">Nelson's Column</a> should remain in place, with the implication it might be removed.<sup id="cite_ref-hirsch_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hirsch-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Not long afterward, the art historian and former museum director Sir <a href="/wiki/Roy_Strong" title="Roy Strong">Roy Strong</a> said the suggestion the column should be taken down was a "ridiculous" viewpoint, commenting: "Once you start rewriting history on that scale, there won't be a statue or a historic house standing....The past is the past. You can't rewrite history."<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-DEvans2018_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DEvans2018-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The following May, Hirsch said the idea of removing Nelson's Column distracted from her main point that Britain should look more carefully at its past to understand itself better today.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In an article introducing her television documentary, <i>The Battle for Britain's Heroes</i>, Hirsch stated that she "wasn't actually waiting in a bulldozer, ready to storm <a href="/wiki/Trafalgar_Square" title="Trafalgar Square">Trafalgar Square</a>, as some people seemed to believe".<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Publications">Publications</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Afua_Hirsch&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Publications"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Brit(ish)"><span id="Brit.28ish.29"></span><i>Brit(ish)</i></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Afua_Hirsch&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Brit(ish)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Brit(ish)" title="Brit(ish)">Brit(ish)</a></div> <p>Hirsch's book <i>Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging</i> (<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781911214281" title="Special:BookSources/9781911214281">9781911214281</a>) was published by <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Cape" title="Jonathan Cape">Jonathan Cape</a> in January 2018. The book is part-memoir and discusses black history, culture and politics in the context of Britain, Senegal and Ghana. It became a <i><a href="/wiki/Sunday_Times" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunday Times">Sunday Times</a></i> bestseller. Hirsch was awarded a <a href="/wiki/Royal_Society_of_Literature" title="Royal Society of Literature">Royal Society of Literature</a> <a href="/wiki/Jerwood_Award" title="Jerwood Award">Jerwood Prize for Non-Fiction</a><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while writing it in 2016. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Decolonising_My_Body"><i>Decolonising My Body</i></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Afua_Hirsch&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Decolonising My Body"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Reviewing Hirsch's 2023 book, <i>Decolonising My Body: A Radical Exploration of Rituals and Beauty</i>, Niellah Arboine wrote in <i>The Guardian</i>: "If her first book Brit(ish) was about grappling with her identity as a black British woman of mixed heritage, Decolonising My Body aims to unpack how her identity and wider society have shaped her physically."<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Television">Television</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Afua_Hirsch&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Television"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Hirsch has been a panellist on the <a href="/wiki/Sky_News" title="Sky News">Sky News</a> discussion programme <a href="/wiki/The_Pledge_(UK_TV_programme)" class="mw-redirect" title="The Pledge (UK TV programme)"><i>The Pledge</i></a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="The_Battle_for_Britain's_Heroes"><span id="The_Battle_for_Britain.27s_Heroes"></span><i>The Battle for Britain's Heroes</i></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Afua_Hirsch&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: The Battle for Britain's Heroes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the television programme <i>The Battle for Britain's Heroes</i>, first broadcast by Britain's <a href="/wiki/Channel_4" title="Channel 4">Channel 4</a> in late May 2018, Hirsch raised lesser-known aspects of the career of former British prime minister <a href="/wiki/Winston_Churchill" title="Winston Churchill">Winston Churchill</a>, such as his attitude to <a href="/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943" title="Bengal famine of 1943">Indians</a> and <a href="/wiki/Alleged_British_use_of_chemical_weapons_in_Mesopotamia_in_1920" title="Alleged British use of chemical weapons in Mesopotamia in 1920">advocacy of tear gassing</a> "uncivilised tribes" in <a href="/wiki/Mesopotamia" title="Mesopotamia">Mesopotamia</a> (now partly modern-day Iraq) after the <a href="/wiki/First_World_War" class="mw-redirect" title="First World War">First World War</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In his review of the programme, <a href="/wiki/Hugo_Rifkind" title="Hugo Rifkind">Hugo Rifkind</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Times" title="The Times">The Times</a></i> wrote that the "subtext is often that Hirsch is attacking Britain in even mentioning this stuff", which itself implies, because of her own background that it "is frankly uppity of her", but Hirsch does not let "her views be defined in opposition to those of her detractors".<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Enslaved"><i>Enslaved</i></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Afua_Hirsch&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Enslaved"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Enslaved_(TV_series)" title="Enslaved (TV series)">Enslaved (TV series)</a></div> <p>Hirsch was co-presenter alongside <a href="/wiki/Samuel_L._Jackson" title="Samuel L. Jackson">Samuel L. Jackson</a> of the six-part television documentary series <i><a href="/wiki/Enslaved_(TV_series)" title="Enslaved (TV series)">Enslaved</a></i>, premiered in 2020,<sup id="cite_ref-variety_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-variety-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which explores aspects of the history of the <a href="/wiki/Transatlantic_slave_trade" class="mw-redirect" title="Transatlantic slave trade">transatlantic slave trade</a>, including links to her personal history.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="African_Renaissance:_When_Art_Meets_Power"><i>African Renaissance: When Art Meets Power</i></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Afua_Hirsch&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: African Renaissance: When Art Meets Power"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2020, Hirsch presented the documentary series <i>African Renaissance: When Art Meets Power</i> on <a href="/wiki/BBC_Four" title="BBC Four">BBC Four</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hirsch visited <a href="/wiki/Ethiopia" title="Ethiopia">Ethiopia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Senegal" title="Senegal">Senegal</a> and <a href="/wiki/Kenya" title="Kenya">Kenya</a>, meeting musicians and artists, and recounting the history of each country.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In August 2021, it was announced Hirsch's production company Born in Me (its name references a quotation from <a href="/wiki/Kwame_Nkrumah" title="Kwame Nkrumah">Kwame Nkrumah</a>: "I am not African because I was born in Africa, but because Africa was born in me")<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> had signed a deal with <a href="/wiki/Fremantle_(company)" title="Fremantle (company)">Fremantle</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Africa_Rising_with_Afua_Hirsch"><i>Africa Rising with Afua Hirsch</i></h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Afua_Hirsch&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Africa Rising with Afua Hirsch"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In June 2023, Hirsch presented the three-part BBC documentary series <i>Africa Rising with Afua Hirsch</i> exploring how young creatives are reinventing culture across Africa.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Teaching">Teaching</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Afua_Hirsch&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Teaching"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Hirsch holds the Wallis Annenberg Chair in Journalism and Communication at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Southern_California" title="University of Southern California">University of Southern California</a> in <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles" title="Los Angeles">Los Angeles</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Recognition">Recognition</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Afua_Hirsch&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Recognition"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Hirsch was on the panel of judges for the 2019 <a href="/wiki/Booker_Prize_for_Fiction" class="mw-redirect" title="Booker Prize for Fiction">Booker Prize for Fiction</a> that, causing much controversy, made <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Atwood" title="Margaret Atwood">Margaret Atwood</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bernardine_Evaristo" title="Bernardine Evaristo">Bernardine Evaristo</a> joint winners.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Later that year, Hirsch was included in the <a href="/wiki/Powerlist_2020" title="Powerlist 2020">2020</a> edition of the <i><a href="/wiki/Powerlist" title="Powerlist">Powerlist</a></i> of the most influential Britons from African/African-Caribbean heritage.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Hirsch was cited as one of the top 100 most influential Africans by <i><a href="/wiki/New_African" title="New African">New African</a></i> magazine in 2020.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Furthermore, in the <i><a href="/wiki/Powerlist_2021" title="Powerlist 2021">Powerlist 2021</a></i>, she made the top 10, ranking ninth most influential person of African or <a href="/wiki/African_Caribbean" class="mw-redirect" title="African Caribbean">African Caribbean</a> heritage in the United Kingdom.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2024, Hirsch was elected a Fellow of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Society_of_Literature" title="Royal Society of Literature">Royal Society of Literature</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Guardian_FRSL_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guardian_FRSL-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Afua_Hirsch&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Hirsch met Sam, her partner, while each was pursuing a legal career.<sup id="cite_ref-DEvans2018_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DEvans2018-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He is from <a href="/wiki/Tottenham" title="Tottenham">Tottenham</a>, <a href="/wiki/North_London" title="North London">North London</a>, and of Ghanaian descent.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The couple's daughter was born in 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bibliography">Bibliography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Afua_Hirsch&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Bibliography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Books">Books</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Afua_Hirsch&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Books"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Brit(ish)" title="Brit(ish)">Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging</a></i>, London: Jonathan Cape, 2018, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781911214281" title="Special:BookSources/9781911214281">9781911214281</a><sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Equal to Everything: Judge Brenda and the Supreme Court</i> (for children), Legal Action Group, 2019, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978%2B1%2B912273%2B48%2B5" title="Special:BookSources/978+1+912273+48+5">978 1 912273 48 5</a><sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><i>Decolonising My Body: A Radical Exploration of Rituals and Beauty</i>, London: Penguin Books, October 2023, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781529908664" title="Special:BookSources/9781529908664">9781529908664</a><sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Selected_articles">Selected articles</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Afua_Hirsch&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Selected articles"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>"What's It Like Being Black in Norway?". <i>The Guardian</i>, 26 May 2013<sup id="cite_ref-What's_it_like_being_black_in_Norway?_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-What's_it_like_being_black_in_Norway?-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>"Britain: Rainbow Nation, Racist Background", <i><a href="/wiki/Prospect_(magazine)" title="Prospect (magazine)">Prospect</a></i>, 16 March 2017</li> <li>"Toppling Statues? Here's Why Nelson's Column Should Be Next", <i>The Guardian</i>, 22 August 2017<sup id="cite_ref-hirsch_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hirsch-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>"The Fantasy of 'Free Speech<span style="padding-right:.15em;">'</span>", <i>Prospect</i>, 16 February 2018</li> <li>"The Racism That Killed George Floyd Was Built in Britain". <i>The Guardian</i>, 3 June 2020<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>"Afua Hirsch on the Crucial Black History Lessons All Schools Should Be Teaching". <i>Vogue</i>, 15 June 2020<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span style="padding-right:.15em;">"</span>'We Are Coming Towards A Great Reckoning': Lily Gladstone & Leonardo DiCaprio On Their Searing Period Drama, Killers of the Flower Moon", <i>Vogue</i>, October 2023<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>"Kerry Washington on uncovering a family secret: 'It's exhausting to put on a mask to maintain appearances<span style="padding-right:.15em;">'</span>", <i>The Guardian</i>, 14 October 2023.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span style="padding-right:.15em;">"</span>'My year of adornment': how Afua Hirsch embraced turning 40", <i>The Observer</i>, 15 October 2023.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>"Afua Hirsch: How I faced the fear of getting older", <i>i</i>, 15 December 2023<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><span style="padding-right:.15em;">"</span>'We are all mixed': Henry Louis Gates Jr on race, being arrested and working towards America's redemption", <i>The Observer</i>, 10 March 2024.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>"Slave Play's Jeremy O. Harris: 'Rishi calling me wrong and divisive is the funniest thing<span style="padding-right:.15em;">'</span>", <i>The Standard</i>, 20 June 2024.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Afua_Hirsch&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-About-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-About_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-About_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-About_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAfua_Hirsch2018" class="citation web cs1">Afua Hirsch (15 October 2018). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.afuahirsch.com/about/">"About"</a>. <i>Afua Hirsch official website</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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