A rich life in the UK’s creative industries is a long shot if you are born poor | Tomiwa Owolade
I broke my father’s heart when I was 17. I didn’t have a drug addiction. I didn’t steal money from his bank account. I didn’t join a cult. I broke his heart because I decided to study English rather than law at university.“English!” he exclaimed. “What can you do with English?”I come from a family where the only worthy degrees are law, medicine or engineering. But I wanted to be a writer: this is why I chose English.I had a moment of crisis in my final year of university. The...
