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Radio 4,4 mins

'It's very telling they chose to place a photo of me, a highly visible, young, black student on the front of the paper'

Woman's Hour

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Lola Olufemi is 21 years old and Cambridge University Students’ Union Women’s Officer. She found herself on the front page of a national newspaper, the face of a campaign to “decolonise” the English curriculum at Cambridge University. She discusses with Jenni Murray how she feels she’s been scapegoated by the media and her fears for the impact this could have on other young, black women wanting to speak out.

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