A session tomorrow the cabinet also discussed that it will continue to work on a daily basis in the line of the constitution to ensure a smooth handover and a peaceful transition to whatever government comes next not course when youre at Tahrir Square and despite the resignation being announced demonstrators here saw no sign of going home hundreds of High School Students have rallied in Central Hong Kong there calling for democratic reform and standing against what they say is Police Brutality during the recent protests that follows the arrest of dozens of students sort of Polytechnic University protesters there had barricaded themselves for almost 2 weeks some of the most violent scenes since the protests began sara clock has more from hong kong. Members of the older and Younger Generation are attending this assembly here in Central Hong Kong across generational divide whoever is you know. For political reform this peaceful gathering is demanding the government make the 5 demands which include an independent inquiry into place conduct and investigate accusations of Police Brutality they also want the government to push back on chinas totting grip on this former british territory. Even though its tough to bring the kids out to the rally we want to tell the government we arent scared no matter how many ways they try to suppress us we will still come out this really comes a week after the procedure moxy camp secured a majority in the District Council elections that victory has bolstered the protest movement with more relevance planned for sunday in hong kong. Has been more violence in eastern democratic republic of congo rebels have killed 13 people in kuku tama thats near the city where 28 people died during an attack by armed groups on tuesday catherine surely is in goma we are being told that residents are now feeling that its safe to go and assess the situation and were also hearing that some of the board is a mutilated others have their heads cut off and this is a situation that people have been talking about for the past week or so people very upset with what is going on that. Are able to calm and carry out attacks yet we have thousands of soldiers in that area carrying out an offensive against a. D. F. We have un peacekeepers in that area as well. Perus Opposition Leader keiko for humanity has been released from prison after 13 months she was detained pending trial accused of receiving bribes from a Brazilian Construction Company hundreds of her supporters gathered outside the prison to celebrate her release the mori is the daughter of former president alberto. The president a sunni nom is has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for murder desi would tear c. Was convicted of killing 15 political opponents in 1902 he is currently out of the country on an official trip to china the military called the found him guilty on friday has not ordered his arrest and he can appeal the sentence maltese government has denied reports its Prime Minister plans to resign joseph most god is under pressure over the governments alleged cover up of the murder of a journalist 2 years ago definitely kind of want to get lisa was killed in a car bomb explosion while investigating corruption involving politicians and businessmen amaze ors epidemic in sanaa has killed 42. 00 people will do 3000. 00 cases were registered since october when the outbreak began the country has seen a drop in immunizations and thats made it more vulnerable to attack outbreaks of the disease those are the headlines up next studio b. Unscripted. You cant really make a record racial this was something as monumentally horrific as slavery thing under natural and we connect on our collective anger a lot of the time what it what it actually do for you is just ripe for the good. Name still isnt punk but you can call me george the poet something happens over the mediterranean you go from being someones child to an immigrant from a london based spoken word artist roots in uganda. Im korean but the problem i 1st started at cambridge i want all black faces and. Im a literally historian and cultural commentator i was born in india i live and work in the united kingdom. I was intrigued because how often do you get to share ideas solve problems and have a conversation with someone who knows so much about resistance and colonial power. Because i was curious he comes from a different background he has different experiences but i think all roads will cross lacoste stories and all identities i won this game to. Pass. Thank you so recently weve seen a lot of western universities reflecting on their possible involvement or heritage linked to Transatlantic Slave Trade your institution Cambridge University obviously the same university that i attended yeah i read some interesting tweets from you regarding the universities and. Investigating its own links to yeah every can you. Yeah i raised a few questions on one more stat it was presented as exploring if cambridge and whether and in what ways cambridge has benefited from the slave trade the point is that there is no Major Institution in britain whether its banks or financial houses or the or markets. That have not benefited from the immense Wealth Creation that slavery lets too so its not a question of if but in what ways the point is that slavery lets to benefits across societies and they were networked benefits right so if you had railways that were built in part on slave wealth generated from slavery and those railways came to your town you benefited from slavery if your students and cambridge catered for instance to any young men came from landed wealth people who had plantations an empty gold jamaica and they were paying fees to you you benefited from slavery so i think we have to understand that its a very complex picture of benefits and also one of the thing you cant really make of reparations for something as monumentally horrific as slavery and you cant actually bring back the generations who died and were maimed and lived as chattel what you can do is stalk knowledge that it has led to the impoverishment of subsequent generations and that you can make up some uk knowledge in a financial form of the damage that was done you can actually pay back what was taken this is one of the biggest frustrations around this we often see reparations being lost of the discussion whether on the political front. Economic otherwise how do you build up the. Energy or the momentum. Tie all these conversations together i think there are complex conversations to be had certainly about who gets read. Peroration zone in what form those reparations are paid out leads taken by some caribbean countries to say actually you know you need to acknowledge that the poverty in the immiseration that we have inherited can be traced back through the the the centuries of empire and slavery we need to make the connections repeatedly between the present and the past and the ways in which the past lives on in the present to generate that energy thing can agree more so slavery has had consequences obviously for the caribbean countries and for parts of africa but it also has an afterlife in black british communities what do you think the kind of more consequences for immigrant communities in britain for 2nd generation 3rd generation black british young people is today i think the legacy is twofold so on the one hand you have the deep sense of displacement statelessness especially being. 2nd generation in a country that your parents may not have been received well in theres that displacement theres a sense of. Not quite belonging and not really having a measure of way your story starts and what direction you should be aspiring. To progress in yeah thats thats one half of the tragedy the other half is the miseducation of the masses on this a lot of people are literate in history and it creates the tensions this conversation is nonexistent in some of the places that anything happened yeah why do you think that is i mean on the one hand theres miseducation as in the educational system is not acknowledging the force of things like slavery any muriel is i mean i mean i was not very much teaching my students dont come with much knowledge of it do you think that the memory off off off these historical process is dying out in communities as well so this is hard to gauge you know but what i sense the older i get and the ugly the conversation around xenophobia in this country turns what i sense is that there is a a lot of pride around empire around imperial exploits around the colonial project theres a sense of. The white mans burden still having some legitimacy and winning gains in terms of spreading knowledge and technology and so on and so forth that has gone on addressed and unpacked for a long time so it becomes further entrenched when its passed on from generation to the young black british young people asian young people did they have any understanding of the ways in which their lives theyre shaped by their heritage of slavery and empire yeah i think the Caribbean Community that the when russia generation of 50006. He did a very good job in in cork in some sort of cultural understanding the saturday schools at the west Indian Community was very successful and set up throughout the eightys but as we know economic pressures and social. Attacks on the different fronts really made it hard for the Caribbean Community to maintain that sense of education so i i see that thats dissing disintegrated a little when it comes to my generation and it makes it hard but there is some awareness what ive found tragic is especially when you look at young people that are now for 3rd and 4th generation becoming further and further distant from the information that will give them some sort of sense of where theyre coming from what youre left with this is is a shame which i grappled with for a long time and i still do this this feeling of having to explain why we are in the situation that we are. In on a personal level feeling that your double your own more responsible and representing you know that the potential of your people will correct in the mistakes that are attributed to your people are yeah so in a sense we have to become custody ends of these other history communities have to grab them back and remember. For the immigrant there is no government that you are priority to you know youre not in the homeland and over here you have a government that is you know for the majority here that is reacting to your presence but is not versed in who you are right has no record of your achievement of your family so you really need to take some initiative in protecting and honoring your story yeah he said immigrant communities are not particularly anybodys priority but there is the language of diversity and inclusive it in a way by were allowed to place. At the tables are a handful of us are allowed to teach at elite universities or be part of elite institutions i know that youve done some work with members off the British Royal family and theres been a lot of discussion about the fact that there is a nonwhite member now off the British Royal family so im just wondering whether you have thoughts about the a guest the controversial question of race and the royal family and the whole question of diversity can you diversify an institution like the royal family were not seeing. A diversifying project were seeing generational changes so prince harry is the 1st person in his. Position of his time. You know represents the monarchy in the 21st century and what his marriage to make and mark all represents is is. His love is free free choice yes its a bit weird for me trying to. Square my lets say working class black british sensibilities with my ugandan heritage because the monarchy is very important to my parents to my kingdom so we understand the idea of a shared heritage or a shared identity in what that you know that family as a symbol i may not necessarily. Have grown up you know in in the folds of that passion being out here but i respect it i do i know it means to people and i love people. Is a multifaceted question i dont know what your thoughts certainly to somebody off of indian descent the the. Empire was tied up with the fact of victoria being empress of india and the British Royal family is another British Institution which will have benefited from both slavery and empire so there is a question of for instance when we know that famous black poets have refused the on our off the o. B. E. The order of the British Empire we know that other. Black achievers have accepted it but its not uncontroversial what does it mean for people who descend from formally colonized peoples to carry the empire as an initial after their name there is that whole question of what should all relationship to the institution be should we accept you know the order of the British Empire this is so complicated for me i mean specifically. Coming from a family that was very close with the ugandan money so my grandfather was the 1st attorney general of our kingdom and went into exile with the king over here we know that the brand of colonialism that the british practiced in africa was one of the friending the chieftains and the leaders of the region and reaping the benefits of the land within the context of that relationship but at the same time it means a lot to a lot of people you know to have these affiliations and connections and i suppose that there is a question for individuals from. Minority ethnic backgrounds especially those that were on the colonial rule a question of strategy long term what what do you what do you want a degree of assimilation do you want to forward in this country do you want to. Continue to build on the trauma of the past or are we just saying were ripping up the status quo and were currently figuring out because most of us dont actually have the game plan me oh yeah in your book insurgent empire you talk about resistance to colonialism how that played out in different contexts. What do you believe is the legacy of that resistance the book sets out to do 2 things in relation to the story the 1st is to park the mainstream british mythology is that when freedom from slavery and from empire came along it was because it was gifted by britain to go and slave and the king. So it sets out to. Question that and it points out that slaves rebelled all the time so its really important to put that back in the narrative but the 2nd aspect of the book is just as important that the resistance of slaves was heard back in britain and it helped create a tradition of criticising slavery and empire back in britain we often think of abolition as just some very nice white guys who decided that it was a very bad thing and were going to have you know free the slaves but actually if you if you look at the written works left behind by abolitionists many of them are really aware that the plantations are in from then on that slaves are rebelling that the colonized are rebelling the indentured are rebelling and so what im saying is that that we need to recover the stories of resistance not just the stories of empire and slave man both in other parts of the world but also from within britain theres a theres a minority dissidents tradition and britain which says not in our name you cant enslave and colonized people in our name and that story has been completely marginalized by mainstream history and our part of the conversation about bringing back all those stories i mean these histories have to be recovered and young white britons have to be reminded that their ancestors wont only just colonists and enslave us but that they also resisted and questions their government and those who claim to represent them. But it strikes me that there might be questions our audience wishes to ask of us or perhaps we should turn to them now please. My questions about the kaunas in the university and whether or not you think that itll be effective not just making voices heard that do not conform to the norms of academics p. But also in considering the valid forms of the production of knowledge its not just about diversifying bringing in a range of voices that is important in its own right but i always explain to my students that the colonisation is about understanding what we know why we know and also what we dont know and also recognizing that the knowledge traditions which are being claimed as european are not only european they have often drawn on the traditions of africa asia and beyond so we need to understand that the knowledge is which are not presented as being kind of great european thought have multiple lines drawing on other parts of the world and that these histories also need to be restored to their place of honor i mean decolonization is often presented as oh this is against you know why people its not its about saying that the world is diverse and knowledge has been produced across different parts of the globe we need to honor the fact that europe often drew on other traditions in order to produce its knowledge my question is do you think that there is an ascendant orthodoxy on the political left that is weaponize ing identity politics to breed competitive victimhood. And tribalism in a way that undermines Martin Luther kings dream that we would be judged by the content of our character and not by the color of our skin whatever. Strand of identity one gives primacy to thank you great question i think is happening on both. The left and the road to characterize it as either playing into it. We see that these kind of identity politics. Play up in times of economic downturn or you know in tandem with cycles of big changes as we see in. Western europe and other parts of the world when the political rhetoric becomes increasingly polarized and divisive i see it as a dialectic and something that dialogue respectful dialogue Contact People being in close proximity with one another can begin to address and break down its like its something awful i think a false narrative everybody has an identity everybody is political in one sense of the other so identity politics is with us the difference is whether it is recognized as identity politics or whether it is not so the white majority has an identity and it has a politics so it is often wimmin or black people who are accused of