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Tribes
- Narrated by: David Lammy
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
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Summary
David was the first black Briton to study at Harvard Law School and practised as a barrister before entering politics. He has served as the Member of Parliament for Tottenham since 2000. Today, David is one of Parliament's most prominent and successful campaigners for social justice.
He led the campaign for Windrush British citizens to be granted British citizenship and has been at the forefront of the fight for justice for the families affected by the Grenfell Tower fire.
In 2007, inspired by the bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act and looking to explore his own African roots, David Lammy took a DNA test. Ostensibly he was a middle-aged husband and father, MP for Tottenham and a die-hard Spurs fan. But his nucleic acids revealed that he was 25 percent Tuareg tribe (Niger), 25 percent Temne tribe (Sierra Leone), 25 percent Bantu tribe (South Africa), with 5 percent traces of Celtic Scotland and a mishmash of other unidentified groups.
Both memoir and call to arms, Tribes explores both the benign and malign effects of our need to belong. How this need - genetically programmed and socially acquired - can manifest itself in positive ways, collaboratively achieving great things that individuals alone cannot. And yet how, in recent years, globalisation and digitisation have led to new, more pernicious kinds of tribalism. This book is a fascinating and perceptive analysis of not only the way the world works but also the way we really are.
Shortlisted for the Parliamentary Book Awards: Best Non-Fiction by a Parliamentarian
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- Pete
- 05-04-21
This should be taught and discussed in schools
thought provoking, easy to listen to, positive, forward thinking, insightful and brutally honest.
Great book. loved it.
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- Neil Green
- 03-06-21
Excellent book.
This is a very good book about modern Britain and the world. David Lammy set out ideas for improvement in our world that hopefully will command widespread agreement. The book is well read.
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- Amazon Customer
- 03-01-22
Great ideas. Hopeful view of politics. Thank you
Great ideas. Hopeful view of politics. Thank you. A new fresh and a personal perspective.
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- David Oliver
- 19-06-24
Excellent listen.
This is a great listen in the present political climate where a country’s ills are blamed upon certain minority groups and immigrants by right wing groups as opposed to the country’s ingrained tribal attitudes.
Bi partisan throughout, this is written by a good decent human being and shows all of us that there is a different way to live our lives for the benefit of all.
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- Gary S.
- 21-11-20
An engaging and thought provoking journey through the ideas of belonging
David Lammy is a professional orator and as a result pulls you along in, what some times can be a disparate progression of ideas. Stick with it however and the final chapters reward you with a peak at a utopian ideal that though not compleat (and could be viewed as unachievable) has the kernel of a future that I would want to be part of.
It’s refreshing to see a current and active politician being honest about his own views while responding to none partisan evidence and situations.
It’s a good book that’s left me with plenty to think about.
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- M. Bellamy
- 30-04-20
A sorely needed book
This is, at times a bit repetitive and verbose but it is a very well argued book with some good coverage of political and social history.
The postscript is by far the best part of the book.
Recommended at a difficult time when we were exhausted from the internal fights of Brexit and have now come into a pandemic. This is a book about hope for a better future for us all at a time that we sorely need it.
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- Gregory Smith
- 09-12-21
worthwhile read for the 21st century
loved it, thank you Mr. Lammy, I thoroughly enjoyed this detailed review into the impact of individualisation on human identity
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- One tap
- 10-06-20
I listened to learn
I have historically felt anger towards David Lammy "ranting about racism ". I have identified my "subtle " racism born out of my lifes journey. I wanted to look at it. Lammy has great insight, is not a racist but an educated decent Englishman. A great listen
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- Anonymous User
- 29-07-20
Much more than you'd expect
Lammy identifies the root causes of a lot of problems and gives solutions welcoming feedback
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- Amazon Customer
- 04-12-21
Heavy but excellent food for thought
will be following David Lammy and trying to put to the test some of his suggestions on how to cooperate and integrate particularly within my local community
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