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JUMOKE ABDULLAHI:

Interestingly enough is that you can't actually ask people of the land, the British, the English, what Britishness or Englishness is. Who you can ask are people like me. The Africans, the Indians, the Asians, the people that it was imposed upon them. They’re the ones that can actually tell you what Britishness is, what Englishness is, and also what Scottishness is.

And it’s a case of they are able to hold the mirror up to the nations, like this is actually who you are. Because we’ve been forced to learn about you and this so-called great empire. And the ways that education is taught here in the UK-- we all went to school here in the UK-- it's a case of World War I, World War II, Hitler, a little bit of slavery, job done. It’s like, we're forced to learn all of these little kind of kernels.