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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.

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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

Afua 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