Afua Hirsch is an award-winning writer, journalist, former barrister and filmmaker, known for storytelling on culture, identity and social justice. She presents flagship BBC documentary series Africa Rising, Enslaved, a 6-part series about the transatlantic slave trade with Samuel L Jackson, and podcasts, through the production company she founded Born in Me Productions.

Hirsch’s book "Decolonising My Body" blends memoir and narrative non-fiction to examine beauty, rituals and ancestry as an approach to radical justice. Her previous books include the bestselling "Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging" (2018) winner of the Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Prize, "Equal To Everything" (2019), a bestselling book about the UK Supreme Court, "Empire: Look Again" (2021) published by Tate.

Hirsch is a professor of Journalism at the University of Southern California, a long time journalist and contributor to publications including The Guardian Newspaper, The New York Times, American and British Vogue, where she is an associate editor, and has also practiced law as a barrister.

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