Somali author Hashi Mohamed at Preston Community Library on March 3rd

From Preston Community Library

Local author Hashi Mohamed’s “People Like Us'' has been receiving national press and broadcast attention in the last few weeks since its publication by leading publisher PROFILE. He is coming to Preston Community Library as part of his UK-wide publicity tour on March 3rd.

Hashi arrived in the UK aged 9, a penniless, stateless, parentless refugee from the civil war in Somalia speaking no English.

Raised on benefits in Wembley, he is now a barrister in Lincoln's Inn and prolific broadcaster. He speaks in schools across the country and is mentor to an incredible 22 people. It could have all gone another way. The book is a gripping account, and an invaluable part of the debate on Social Mobility, the lack of...

Reviews

‘I found myself nodding in agreement with every word of People Like Us – Hashi Mohamed has written a moving, shocking, clear-eyed account of the increasingly rare phenomenon of social mobility using his own extraordinary story as a spine’  Grayson Perry

‘Finely written...an ambitious and far-reaching attempt to rethink the whole stalled project of social mobility’  Sunday Times

‘A work of courage and hope by a very remarkable individual’ Philippe Sands

Come and hear Hashid talk about his amazing journey through some of the lowest performing schools in Brent, to Oxford and the Bar, and join the debate.

Hashi Mohamed on "What it takes to make it in modern Britain" - February 11th

An event organised by Salusbury World

Hashi Mohamed, arrived in the UK as a child refugee from Somalia at the age of 9. He was raised on benefits in Harlesden and is now a successful barrister. LINK He knows a great deal about social mobility in the UK.

In his new book, People Like Us, he looks at the many barriers to social mobility in the UK where the best indicator of what your job will be is the job of your parents, where power and privilege is concentrated in the 7% who are privately educated, where is your name sounds black or Asian you will have to send twice as many job applications as a white person.

Hashi will look at the stark statistics that reveal the depth of the problem and the failures of education, imagination and confidence that compound it.

What can be done to address this seemingly intractable problem?

Tuesday February 11th 7-9pm

Queens Park Community School
Aylestone Avenue
London
NW6 7BQ

FREE but register HERE