Akala: Natives - Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire

BAFTA and MOBO Award-winning hip-hop artist, writer and social entrepreneur Akala is the co-founder of the Hip-Hop Shakespeare Company. His book Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire details his own upbringing as a poor, mixed race boy in Britain in the ’80s and ’90s with the legacy of the racialised British Empire. Akala joins Michael Mohammed Ahmad in conversation about his bestselling debut.