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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “ugandan -born journalist”. Today it says “british journalist and author”.
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Yasmin Alibhai-Brown (born Yasmin Damji on 10 December 1949) is a Ugandan -born British journalist and author, who describes herself as a "leftie liberal, anti-racist, feminist, Shia Muslim, part-Pakistani, and ... a very responsible person".1 Currently a regular columnist for The Independent and the London Evening Standard , she is a well-known commentator on issues relating to immigration, diversity and multiculturalism .2 She is a founder member of British Muslims for Secular Democracy .3 She is also a patron of the SI Leeds Literary Prize .4
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ugandan -born journalist
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british journalist and author
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