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Gus Casely-Hayford, director of the new V&A East, takes time out from the Olympic Park to travel to the University of East Anglia where he's being awarded an honorary doctorate. It's an opportunity for him to tell a personal story of the years of struggle it took to establish a career in museums. He explains why, though the Smithsonian offered him US citizenship as the director of the Museum of Africa Art in Washington, he longed to return to the UK where museum directors are not completely haunted by the need to raise money. He pays great tribute to his brother, the late Joe Casely-Hayford, the hugely successful fashion designer, whose work influenced the young Gus in an inspiring speech to the UAE graduates.
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