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Afua Hirsch
Afua HirschFRSL (born 1981)[1] is a British writer and broadcaster. She has worked as a journalist for The Guardian newspaper, and was the Social Affairs and Education Editor for Sky News from 2014 until 2017.
She is the author of the 2018 book Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging, receiving a Jerwood Award while writing it. Hirsch was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2024.[2]
Early life
editAfua Hirsch was born in Stavanger, Norway,[3] to a British father and a Ghanaian mother, and was raised in Wimbledon, southwest London.[4][5] Her paternal grandfather, Hans (later John), who was Jewish, fled Berlin in 1938.[6] Her great-uncle is the metallurgistSir Peter Hirsch.
Her maternal grandfather, who graduated from the University of Cambridge, was involved in establishing the post-independence education system in Ghana but later became a political exile.[7]
Hirsch was educated at the private Wimbledon High School,[8] a
