The African story, the story of black people, is part of that complicated mix that's created the country we are today. And the reason I think it's important is because these are the stories and this is the history that explains why Britain looks the way it does today, why the faces that you see when you walk through the streets of our cities are so varied. I think it's Britain's relationship with Africa and Africans, both here in Britain, in the Caribbean and in North America, and also in Africa itself. It tends to mean the story of black people in Britain, but I think it means something much bigger than that. Black British history has meant lots of different things at different times.
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