Tomiwa Owolade
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Tomiwa Owolade (born 1996) is a Nigerian-born journalist and author based in London, England.
Biography
Owolade was born in Nigeria in 1996 and moved to London in 2005. He studied English at Queen Mary, University of London[1] and earned a postgraduate degree in English from University College London. He was one of the judges at the UCL Orwell Political Fiction Prize in 2023.[2]
He works as a freelance journalist, writing for The Observer, The Times, The Telegraph, New Statesman[3] and other significant British newspapers and magazines.[4][5][6][7][8][9]
He describes his interests as including fiction and non-fiction books and also films, especially the films of Alfred Hitchcock, Wong Kar-Wai, Richard Linklater, and Michael Haneke.
Goodreads describes the book as "Humane, empirical and passionate, this book promises to start a new conversation about race and, vitally, shed light on black British life today."[10] Reviewing it in The Guardian, Colin Grant called it a "timely intervention into the politics of identity", and concluded that “Even when two nations speak the same language, [race] can be lost in translation.” His book shows that in this country’s polarising culture wars its attitude towards race is being shaped by the enlightened and the bigots in the US. But he concludes: “To define someone exclusively by their race is to acquiesce to the visions of racists.”[11] [12] and Tony Sewell wrote in The Telegraph that it is "a sensible study of racism, unravelling the important differences between the UK and the US."[13] Pratinav Anil writing in The Times ,where it was book of the week in June 2023, [14] explained that it looks in detail at the challenge of a patronising attitude that Owalade abhors "Such well-meaning condescension offends Owolade’s sensibility because he is an “integrationist”. Take your pick, his critics argue: you can be black or British. He takes umbrage at the “woke Powellism” of Kehinde Andrews, a professor of black studies at Birmingham City University who calls for independent black institutions and safe spaces to safeguard black people from racism
References
- ↑ "Alumni profile - Tomiwa Owolade". www.qmul.ac.uk. 2021-10-18. Retrieved 2023-05-22.
- ↑ UCL (2018-04-30). "News". UCL English. Retrieved 2023-05-22.
- ↑ "Tomiwa Owolade, Author at New Statesman". New Statesman. Retrieved 2023-07-27.
- ↑ Owolade, Tomiwa (2023-05-22). "Our obsession with race is pushing us apart". The Times. Retrieved 2023-05-22.
- ↑ Owolade, Tomiwa (2023-05-20). "How philistine of David Starkey to limit western civilisation to whiteness". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 2023-05-22.
- ↑ Owolade, Tomiwa (2023-04-23). "What Diane Abbott gets wrong about racism". New Statesman. Retrieved 2023-05-22.
- ↑ Owolade, Tomiwa (2023-04-15). "Racism in Britain is not a black and white issue. It's far more complicated". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 2023-05-22.
- ↑ Owolade, Tomiwa (2022-07-20). "How Africa can rethink its relationship with the west". Financial Times. Retrieved 2023-05-22.
- ↑ Owolade, Tomiwa (2023-06-04). "How American jargon infiltrated British English – and our politics". The Telegraph. Retrieved 2023-06-07.
- ↑ "This Is Not America". Goodreads. Retrieved 2023-05-22.
- ↑ Grant, Colin (2023-06-26). "This Is Not America by Tomiwa Owolade review – black and British… and a world apart". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2023-07-27.
- ↑ Grant, Colin (26 June 2023). "This Is Not America by Tomiwa Owolade review – black and British… and a world apart". The Guardian.
- ↑ "A must read exposé of how Britain fell for America's madness on race". The Telegraph. 17 June 2023.
- ↑ Anil, Pratinav (2023-07-26). "This Is Not America by Tomiwa Owolade review — it's class, not colour, that matters in Britain". ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2023-07-27.
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