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Akala - Knowledge Is Power

Rapper and poet Akala talks to Brian Rose in 2014 about Camden, race and class, Wu-Tang, independent music, Shakespeare, Jamaica, Brazil and why language and history matter.

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Chapters

10:04 Welcome and growing up in Camden

13:53 Education, inequality and who designed society

19:21 Camden schools then and now, and Saturday schools

22:47 Wu-Tang Forever and the pull of music

25:13 Football, West Ham and Romford

30:42 Independence, Radio 1 and the 2006…

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