Look Again: Empire

About Afua Hirsch

Afua Hirsch is a writer author TV presenter and documentary maker. She studied Philosophy Politics and Economics at the University of Oxford and worked as a barrister before becoming legal affairs correspondent and later the West Africa correspondent at the Guardian. In 2014 she joined Sky News as the Social Affairs editor a role I held until 2017. She has presented a range of television and radio documentaries including Britain's Bloody Heroes African Art Enslaved and The White House and a regular contributor current affairs programmes including The Pledge Channel 4 News BBC2 Newsnight BBC1 Question Time and CNN. She is the author of Brit(ish): On Race Identity and Belonging winner of the RSL Jerwood Prize and a Sunday Times bestseller and Equal To Everything a childrens book which tells the story of Lady Brenda Hale. She regularly writes for publications including Time Magazine Vogue The Sunday Times and the Observer. She is currently the Wallis Annenberg Chair of Journalism at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.