Hello and welcome to Meet the Writers, I'm Georgina Godwin.
My guest today is a philosopher and author.
He was born in Zambia, then called Northern Rhodesia and spent his childhood there and in Malawi.
He's written an array of books on philosophy,
history of ideas, human rights, ethics and so much more.
He founded and became the first master of New College of the Humanities,
now known as Northeastern University.
He's also a supernumerary fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford, where he formerly taught.
His latest work is Discriminations, Making Peace in Culture Wars,
which searches for middle ground in the woke-ism debate.
Professor A.C.
Greylam, welcome to Meet the Writers.
Anthony, it is so great to be sitting opposite you finally.
We've spoken at festivals over the years,
but it's great to actually have you the other side of a microphone,
where we can really get into who you are and where all this extraordinary thought comes from and where it's leading us.
You were born like me in Southern Africa.
Tell us about that Zambian upbringing.
It's interesting
that the experience of white people in Africa is actually much more diverse than people realise.