British MP David Lammy: Current Partisan Politics Are ‘Playing To The Worst Instincts Of Tribalism
In 2007, looking to explore his own African roots, David Lammy started a quest that resulted in his book.
David Lammy has served as the Member of Parliament for Tottenham since 2000.
Today, Lammy is one of Parliament’s most prominent and successful campaigners for social justice. In 2007, inspired by the bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act and looking to explore his own African roots, he started a quest that resulted in his book “Tribes: How Our Need to Belong Can Make or Break Society.”
Here & Now’s Jeremy Hobson speaks with Lammy.
Book Excerpt: ‘
By David Lammy
FROM APATHY TO TRIBALISM
I am from Guyana, or at least both of my parents were. As the test I took revealed back in 2007, my DNA is
