Lola Young Eight Weeks Looking back, moving forwards, defying the odds 336pp. Penguin. Paperback, £10.99. Lola Young has been a crossbench member of the House of Lords since 2004. She is also an emeri

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The absent black father, the kind of man once controversially criticized by President Obama as “missing in action”, who casts a pall over his dependents, figures prominently in Africa and the African

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