A conversation with the writer Tomiwa Owolade

"If we care about social justice, then specificity matters more than generalisation."

Tomiwa Owolade’s first book This Is Not America is a ferociously-intelligent, zestily-argued riposte of a book that takes aim at thought traps which have (in his view) shaped and distorted the recent conversation around race and so-called “black experience” in contemporary Britain — and not for better. In the opening chapters he sets up the contemporary…