Afua Hirsch
JOURNALIST
Afua Hirsch is an award-winning writer, broadcaster and filmmaker, known for her work on Black culture, history and identity in the African diaspora and worldwide. A former barrister before returning to journalism, Hirsch established The Guardian’s first West Africa bureau, and is still a regular contributor to the newspaper, as well as other print publications, including Vogue, TIME and The New York Times. She is currently the Wallis Annenberg Chair of Journalism at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Hirsch is the Founder of Born in Me Productions, which creates scripted and non-scripted movies, TV shows and podcasts. She is the presenter of African Renaissance, a three-part BBC programme about African art; Enslaved, the most comprehensive documentary ever made on the history of the transatlantic slave trade; and a podcast series for Audible. In addition to her book Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging (Vintage, 2018) – winner of the Royal Society of Literature Jerwood Prize – Hirsch is the author of Equal to Everything (Legal Action Group, 2019), about the UK Supreme Court, and was a judge on the 2019 Booker Prize.
