STEVE ANDREW enjoys an account of the many communities that flourished independently of and in resistance to the empires of old
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Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire
by Akala
(Two Roads, £16.99)
KINGSLEE DALEY — more often known as Akala — is earning a reputation as one of Britain’s most important voices.
On top of touring the world, releasing hip-hop albums, making documentaries for the BBC, campaigning on a range of issues, appearing on Question Time and running the Hip-hop Shakespeare Company, he has just published his first book.
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