No./ 12 The making of a black skinhead

I WAS BORN in London to Nigerian parents and was ‘farmed’ out at six weeks to a white working-class couple in Tilbury, a poverty-stricken docking town, and spawning ground for racist attitudes. The abuse levied towards African immigrants was made worse by high unemployment. Fuelled by the Enoch Powell rhetoric of “KEEP BRITAIN WHITE”, blacks and Africans were seen by many as the enemy taking their jobs.

We lived in Poets Corner. It