Akala, born Kingslee Daley in London in 1983, is a rapper, writer and educator. He won the MOBO award for Best Hip Hop Act in 2006, set up The Hip-hop Shakespeare Company in 2009 to bring Shakespeare to young people through rap, and later became a Sunday Times bestselling author with Natives.
Brian Rose interviewed Akala on London Real in 2014 about hip-hop, history, education and the British class system. The most-watched London Real interview with Akala is Knowledge Is Power (615,000 YouTube views). Every appearance is listed below.
Knowledge Is Power (June 2014). The full interview: the Wu-Tang Clan, Shakespeare, the public school system and the history of slavery in Jamaica.
Akala, born Kingslee Daley in London in 1983, is a rapper, writer and educator. He won the MOBO award for Best Hip Hop Act in 2006, set up The Hip-hop Shakespeare Company in 2009 to bring Shakespeare to young people through rap, and later became a Sunday Times bestselling author with Natives.
Start with Knowledge Is Power from June 2014.
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