When he was one year old, Kwei-Armah's family moved to a two-storey terraced house in Southall, London, where they rented out two rooms to help to pay for the mortgage [REF].
Kwei-Armah grew-up in Southall in the 1970s at a time when Asian families were moving in and white families were moving out, and he perceived animosity from the Asian community towards the Afro-Caribbean community.