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Afua Hirsch (born 12 June 1981) is a writer, broadcaster, barrister and human rights development worker of Ghanaian, English and Jewish heritage. She is the Social Affairs and Education Editor for Sky News and was previously a correspondent for the British newspaper The Guardian.
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- Our identity afua hirsch tedxtottenham
- Afua hirsch on sky news tonight weeknights 7 9pm
- Early and personal life
- Career
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Afua hirsch on sky news tonight weeknights 7 9pm
Early and personal life
Hirsch was born in Stavanger, Norway, to an English father and a Ghanaian mother, and was raised in London. She is married.
In an episode of The Pledge on Sky News broadcast on 11 May 2017, Hirsch told fellow panelists she has a daughter who at the time was approaching her sixth birthday.
Career
Hirsch has worked in international development, law and journalism. She began working as a lawyer in criminal defence, public and international law. She then became a legal correspondent for The Guardian. She has lived in Britain and Senegal, and served as The Guardian's West Africa correspondent, based in Accra, Ghana. From 2014 to 2017 she was the Social Affairs and Education Editor at Sky News.
Hirsch is the author of Brit(ish) – a book about Britishness and identity, yet to be published by Jonathan Cape.
In August 2017, Hirsch called for Nelson's Column to be destroyed, claiming it is a symbol of white supremacism. Her comments caused substantial controversy. The former director of the Victorian and Albert Museum, Sir Roy Strong, later called the comments "ridiculous", saying: "Well, listen, dear, that was about 1800. Once you start rewriting history on that scale, there won't be a statue or a historic house standing....The past is the past. You can't rewrite history."