"I wanted to assimilate and go back to the abnormal normality I knew. I wanted to wash off the experience of Africa but obviously I couldn't because that's who I was. As much as I wanted to deny it, it was plaguing me, and I was reminded by the images coming through the TV, people on the streets and in the end my family in the house."
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On returning back to England and his subsequent identity crisis in âAdewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje: 'I didn't want to be black. So I joined the skinheadsâŚ'â in The Guardian (13 May 2012)
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