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The first time I went to North Africa, when I was 17 or 18, I saw these Berber women with tattoos on their faces…

— Michele Lamy

My dad's Nigerian and I grew up in London, and that's just how it is.

— Emma Weymouth

As a Ghanaian-Swiss Brit, I grew up with so many different cultures.

— Raye

I grew up in the African bush in Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda, which is my thing. I love the smell of the dust as…

— Giles Foden

I'm not sure where I'm from! I was born in London. My father's from Ghana but lives in Saudi Arabia. My mother's Nigerian but…

— Taiye Selasi

I grew up in an all-black neighbourhood in Decatur, Georgia - a kinda lower-middle-class area.

— Keri Hilson

What was nice for me was that when I got to secondary school - like high school - I met many other Ghanaian schoolgirls…

— Michaela Coel

Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my…

— Sharon Horgan

I mean, London has shaped me as a person. My parents are Nigerian so I've had the luxury of blending different cultures together just…

— MNEK

I've got to where am in life not because of something I brought to the world but through something I found - the wealth…

— Hugh Masekela

Born in the UK, brought up in Ghana, it was a sort of childhood of hardship and difficulty.

— Sam Gyimah

I'm from Hackney, and it's an area that is not so pretty, and we have a different way of expressing ourselves than somebody from…

— Labrinth