Nostalgia Interviews With Chris Deacy

My guest this week is Onyeka Nubia, author, historian and TV presenter. Onyeka works in the area of diversifying and developing a more inclusive university curriculum and teaching history in a way that means we can reframe British identity. In this very erudite and illuminating interview, Onyeka expresses his concern about how university programmes don’t always teach properly and are insufficiently inclusive and are inaccessible to those who don’t fit a certain demographic. We find out about some of the alternative ways in which he would deliver the curriculum. We talk about the problem with social media peer groups and how it affects our attention spans, as our reference points are being taken away. Onyeka paints a picture of how these days students want to know the answer without understanding the journey that produces the result. An aggressive conservatism is making them conform and their world revolves around their telephones – to the point that it’s the ‘thing’ they worship. Many students fear accessi