Afua Hirsch on ‘Enslaved,’ the enormity of the slave trade, working with Samuel Jackson. The series mixes multiple elements and parallel stories without continuously presenting a history lesson, although it is in its totality …. And when the agenda is polemical deconstruction and unbridled nihilism, as in the case of Afua Hirsch, it is not lashon hara, but rather a deliberate path towards self-destruction. ‘They’re [Prince Harry and Meghan] driving the narrative that this is all driven by racism and sexism, which I think is completely and grotesquely wrong.’. Of these, at least 2 million were murdered or died en route from Western Africa to Brazil and the Caribbean. The Atlantic Ocean is literally littered with the wreckages of slave ships. Afua Hirsch is a British lawyer and journalist — born to a Jewish father whose family escaped Nazi Berlin in 1938, and an Ashanti Ghanaian mother. I think that’s very deliberate. Rabbi Wasserman’s solution is casuistic, and doesn’t really feel right.

He was genuinely intellectually curious about the history and also felt this emotional attachment to his own heritage and his own story. Afua Hirsch was born 36 years ago in Norway to a Ghanaian mother and a father who was the son of a Yorkshire woman and a German-Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany welcomed to this country as a child. Visiting former slavery hubs, such as slave dungeons at Elmina in Ghana, where one of Hirsch’s ancestors lived, and, introducing a sense of adventure to painstaking research, capturing six dives to locate and examine sunken slave ships, “Enslaved” documents the enormity and mortality of the slave trade. Will Recent Israel Peace Deals Lead to More Limited US Involvement in Middle East? And the heated discussion didn’t stop there. Meghan and Harry and claimed they’re ‘breaking up the royal family’, Piers Morgan reckons Prince Harry ‘will be a stoner living in California’ in seriously bizarre remark, Piers Morgan launches into furious Meghan Markle and Prince Harry rant: ‘They’re breaking up the royal family’. I didn’t know and many people don’t know that. Afua Hirsch is a British lawyer and journalist — born to a Jewish father whose family escaped Nazi Berlin in 1938, and an Ashanti Ghanaian mother. If you've got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the Metro.co.uk entertainment team by emailing us [email protected], calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page - we'd love to hear from you. What interested you about this production that brings to life the inhuman horror of the slave trade? Indeed, this is often the case with lashon hara — the agenda is to correct an aberration or improve a situation. Writer, broadcaster, and former barrister Afua Hirsch joined the programme alongside columnist Sarah Vine, PR expert Nick Ede and former royal butler Paul Burrell and locked horns with the host as they discussed coverage of the Duchess of Sussex.

As of 2020, she is around 39 years old.

Elsewhere on today’s show, Piers launched into a furious rant about Meghan and Harry and claimed they’re ‘breaking up the royal family’. She is best known as a strident social critic who likes to focus on the imperceptible racism and prejudice that continues to permeate British society — imperceptible, that is, to those who aren’t its victims. ‘Because it others her and associates her with a history that has posited people of African heritage as other,’ Afua responded.

Sold by Fremantle outside the U.S., Canada and Israel, featuring dives by Diving with a Purpose, an expert team of international deep-sea divers, part of the National Association of Black Scuba Divers, “Enslaved” is produced by Toronto-based Associated Producers and London’s Cornelia Street Productions. Afua Hirsch is a writer and broadcaster. The fact that if you go to Oxford to read history now, you can study the Trans-Atlantic slave trade as one subject or you can study the Industrial Revolution as a separate subject, which to me has no intellectual integrity. One of the things that really appealed to me is that we talk about the history on two radically different levels. Notwithstanding the fact that Miriam had nurtured and cared for Moses as a child, and had meant Moses no harm, she was penalized and reprimanded for her words. This led to a heated debate with Piers Morgan on the widely watched TV program “Good Morning Britain.”, Morgan unequivocally condemned Hirsch’s attempt to “besmirch” Churchill by suggesting that he was an unreconstructed racist. And while not exactly comparable, it is equally clear that if the legacy of Sir Winston Churchill is threatened, the freedom for which he fought will inevitably also be in grave danger. The slave trade was conducted by all major European nations and Africans as well.
A total joy, I loved working with him. It is executive produced by Samuel L. Jackson, LaTanya Jackson, Eli Selden, Rob Lee, Jacobovici, Ric Esther Bienstock and Yaron Niski and produced by Ric Esther Bienstock, Sarah Sapper and Felix Golubev. Variety talked to Afua Hirsch during this week’s virtual marketplace. When Miriam spoke about him, he was still considered ordinary, and her words were considered straightforward lashon hara. What would it take to convert Afua Hirsch to the cause of capitalism? ‘You say we’re demonising a woman of colour, you’re the one bringing race into this,’ Piers scolded. Instead of recognizing the fundamentally positive nature of British identity, she tears it apart — all under the guise of presenting a “warts-and-all” perspective that doesn’t brush uncomfortable truths under the carpet. Afua then brought Danny Baker’s racist royal baby tweet into the argument, to which Piers replied: ‘Danny Baker’s not remotely racist as anyone who knows him knows. The idea of the series is to get beyond the self-selected groups that would engaged with the traditional documentary about the subject. ‘There have been allegations that she has been associated with very racialised forms of crime, there have been discussions about her “exotic” DNA, her newborn baby was compared to a baby chimp,’ Afua began. Piers dismissed this, telling her that she needed to look at the “bigger picture.” But Hirsch was unrepentant. This, he says, resolves the problem with Maimonides’ use of this story as the basis of the laws of lashon hara. Those profits were invested in the industrial revolution, in infrastructure, in banking, in education, so the slave trade wasn’t a side hustle, it was the main event in British economic growth.


She’s the first mixed-race person to enter the royal family. After all, Maimonides includes the supremacy of Moses as the prophet who delivered the Torah to the nation as one of his 13 primary principles of faith. ‘I’m saying that the narratives that you’re perpetuating are racist,’ Afua added.

get the best of the algemeiner straight to your inbox! So I have a long family history that has always fascinated me. Our world as we know it would not exist without this history. Afua Hirsch, quite unintentionally, has provided us with a searing insight into the 21st-century politics of identity. Maimonides uses this episode as proof of the severity of gossip and slander, in Hebrew known as lashon hara. Is the South Park coronavirus pandemic special available to watch in the UK? There is no British or American or South American or African person who was not touched by this history.