Dispatches from the Diaspora: Gary Younge in Conversation

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Hear from one of the country’s leading political voices, Gary Younge, as he reflects on three decades of his remarkable career as a journalist and his frontline view to some of modern history’s biggest political moments. 

At the age of just 24, Gary was sent to report for the Guardian on South Africa’s first democratic elections where he accompanied Nelson Mandela on the election trail. Over the ensuing three decades, he has had a ringside seat during the biggest events to impact the Black diaspora: from joining revellers on the southside of Chicago during Obama’s victory and entering New Orleans days after Hurricane Katrina, to interviewing such luminaries as Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Maya Angelou and Stormzy.

He has witnessed how much change is possible and the power of systems to thwart those aspirations, which he recounts in his powerful new book, Dispatches from the Diaspora. 

In conversation with Saeed Khan, lecturer and consultant on Islamic and Middle East affairs for the BBC and the CBC, Gary will discuss race, racism and Black life.

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About the Author

Gary Younge

Gary Younge is an award-winning author, broadcaster and a professor of sociology at the Universty 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 (shortlisted for the Orwell Prize and the Jhalak Prize); his writing has appeared in Granta, New York Times, Financial Times, New Statesman, and beyond, and he has made several radio and television documentaries on subjects ranging from gay marriage to Brexit. He lives in London.

About the Chair

Saeed Khan

Saeed Khan is Senior Lecturer of Near East & Asian Studies and Global Studies of Wayne State University in Detroit, as well the Research Fellow of its Center for the Study of Citizenship. His latest publications include Global Studies: A Reader on Issues and Institutions and What’s Going on Here: US Experiences of Islamophobia between Obama and Trump, co-authored with Saied R. Ameli.