AfriSoc Reading Corner: A Conversation between Afua Hirsch and Nana Oforiatta Ayim at All Souls College

Join us for a conversation with Afua Hirsch that will be moderated by Nana Oforiatta Ayim at All Souls College. Afua will discuss her latest book Brit(ish): On Race, Identity, and Belonging and signed copies of the book will be available. Refreshments will be provided. About Afua Hirsch: Afua Hirsch is an award-winning writer, broadcaster and former barrister known for her work on social justice, black culture, history and identity. Afua studied PPE at St Peter’s College, followed by a career in International development across 15 West African countries, before she was called to the Bar of England and Wales and practised international human rights law at Doughty Street Chambers, London. She has worked as a journalist for more than twenty years, becoming the Guardian legal correspondent, Guardian West Africa correspondent, Social Affairs Editor at Sky News, and her ongoing work as a freelance contributor to publications including the New York Times, Time Magazine and Vogue. She presents and produces non scripted TV documentaries, including African Renaissance, a BBC series on African art, and Enslaved, a 6 part series about the transatlantic slave trade with Samuel L Jackson, and a podcast series for Audible. In addition to her book Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging - winner of the Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Prize - Afua is the author of Equal To Everything, about the UK Supreme Court, and was a judge on last year’s Booker Prize. She is currently the Wallis Annenberg Chair of Journalism at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Afua is the founder of Born in Me Productions, which creates scripted and non-scripted movies, TV and podcast. About Nana Oforiatta Ayim: Nana Oforiatta Ayim is a Writer, Filmmaker, and Art Historian who lives and works in Accra, Ghana.  She published her first novel The God Child with Bloomsbury in the Uk in 2019, the US in 2020 and with Penguin in Germany in 2021. She has made award winning films for museums such as Tate Modern, LACMA and The New Museum.  She is Founder of the ANO Institute of Arts and Knowledge, through which she has pioneered a Pan-African Cultural Encyclopaedia, a Mobile Museums Project, and curated Ghana’s first pavilion at the Venice Biennale. She is the recipient of various awards and honours, having been named one of the Apollo ’40 under 40’; one of 50 African Trailblazers by The Africa Report; a Quartz Africa Innovator in 2017; one of 12 African women making history in 2016 and one of 100 women of 2020 by Okayafrica. She was appointed to the Advisory Council of Oxford University’s Cultural Programme in 2020 and is currently Special Advisor to the Ghanaian Minister of Tourism, Arts and Culture on Museums and Cultural Heritage.