‘Something is in the air’: Ben Okri on the fight against racism

‘Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter’ — Martin Luther King Jr

My first conscious experience of race was when I was six years old. My father had come to collect me from school. As we made our way across the snow-covered fields in Peckham, south London, in the winter of 1965-66, I felt something crack my head. Then I heard the voices of boys shouting the N-word, making animal noises and throwing packed snowballs with stones in them.

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