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An Evening with Gary Younge

History &
Social Policy

What can we learn from the past to make sense of the present?

Gary Younge has had a ringside seat during the biggest events in modern Black history: accompanying Nelson Mandela on his first election campaign, joining revellers on the southside of Chicago during Barack Obama’s presidential election victory, entering New Orleans days after Hurricane Katrina, covering the rise of Black Lives Matter and interviewing prominent figures including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Maya Angelou and Stormzy. 

Now as the UK faces new waves of racial tension and division, Younge came to the Intelligence Squared stage to draw from his new book Dispatches From The Diaspora and to discuss what can we learn from the past to make sense of the present.

Recently awarded the Orwell Prize for Journalism, one of the nation’s most powerful political voices joined us to discuss reporting on the diaspora from its frontlines.

Speakers for the motion

  • Gary Younge

    Winner of the Orwell Prize for Journalism 2023 and author of Dispatches from the Diaspora

Chair

  • Aniefiok Ekpoudom

    Writer and journalist

Speakers are subject to change.

Speakers

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Gary Younge

Winner of the Orwell Prize for Journalism 2023 and author of Dispatches from the Diaspora

Award-winning author, broadcaster and a professor of sociology at the University of Manchester. Formerly a columnist and an editor-at-large at the Guardian, he is an editorial board member of The Nation magazine. He is the author of five books, including Another Day in the Death of America; his writing has appeared in Granta, New York Times, Financial Times, GQ, New Statesman, and beyond, and he has made several radio and television documentaries on subjects ranging from gay marriage to Brexit.
Chair

Aniefiok Ekpoudom

Writer and journalist

Writer and storyteller from South London whose work documents community and culture in contemporary Britain. His debut book Where We Come From: Rap Home and Hope in Modern Britain is a social history of British Rap. He has written for publications including the Guardian, GQ, Vogue and VICE. He was the recipient of the Barbara Blake-Hannah Award at the 2021 British Journalism Awards and the Culture Writer of the Year Award at the 2021 Freelance Writers Awards.