Lanre Bakare
speaker
569 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 7 Aug
Lanre Bakare’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But it's not the end of my story, and I am going to come back, which I thought was really extraordinary.
I don't understand how anyone could have sat there and really think that's what's going to happen.
Yeah, I think to kind of understand that, we need to go back to 2023 and when Jason was appointed.
Black Lives Matter had obviously kicked off in 2020 after the murder of George Floyd.
Then I'd say 2023 was like the peak of institutions coming under massive criticism internally and externally about their lack of action on black representation.
Cambridge at that point, I think they only had five black professors when they hired Professor Arday.
So they were under pressure.
They were under intense scrutiny as well.
And if you think about it from their point of view, you've got Professor Ade, who's got this fantastic backstory.
He's a young guy.
He's got his whole life in front of him.
He's a good speaker.
He's got this incredible narrative.
And maybe this person solves a massive problem that we've got.
or at least go some way to showing that we really, really care about this issue.
So therefore, we're going to put this young professor who arguably was never qualified to be in that position.
That's definitely an argument you hear other academics make.
Usually to become a chair in the position that he had, you would be much later on in your career, much more experienced.
And I think the other side of it, what you asked me, this idea of him being a diversity hire and that really, really infuriating people on the right.
I mean, this is a narrative we hear all the time, almost daily.
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