Yasmin Alibhair-Brown is a noted broadcaster and a columnist on The Independent. She has also written for The Guardian, The Observer, The Mail, The New York Times, Time Magazine and Newsweek.
She came to the UK from Uganda in 1972, going on to complete her MPhil in Literature at the University of Oxford in 1975. Her work as a journalist in the subsequent decades won her, amongst other awards, the George Orwell Prize for Political Journalism in 2002.
Polls held in 2005 named her the 10th most influential Black/Asian woman in the country, and one of the most powerful Asian media professionals in the UK.
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