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Unknown Works’s Chengdu chippie. Photograph: Unknown Works Unknown Works’s Chengdu chippie. Photograph: Unknown Works The latest survey of the UK’s top emerging practices reveals plenty of style and wit alongside a desire to prioritise diversity, the climate crisis and housing shortages over wealthy clients… Sun 25 Apr 2021 06.00 EDT “I am a poster child,” says David Ogunmuyiwa, “for what you get if you invest in people’s education, healthcare and homes.” The son of immigrants, he grew up on the Aylesbury estate in south London, the often-vilified ...

How a Ghanaian slave became a respected philosopher in Germany One of the many slaves to have left the shores of Ghana did so in the year 1730. At age four, the story of his life began, not on a good note, but little did he know it will lead to something great. Anton Wilhelm Amo was his name, born in 1703 and hailed from Axim in the Western region of present-day Ghana. According to records, Wilhelm Amo was taken to Amsterdam by a preacher working in Ghana to serve the Dutch West Indies Company. Slavery which is now frowned upon and abolished all over the world was rather a norm at the time as...