Name: Baron Victor Adebowale

Ethnicity: British Nigerian

Party: Crossbench

The Right Honourable, The Lord Adebowale, CBE

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Adebowale was born to Nigerian parents Ezekiel & Grace Adebowale and was educated at Thornes House School, Wakefield and the Polytechnic of East London. He began his career in Local Authority Estate Management before joining the housing association movement. He spent time with Patchwork Community Housing Association and was Regional Director of the Ujima Housing Association, Britain’s largest black-led housing association. He was Director of the Alcohol Recovery Project and then Chief Executive of youth homelessness charity Centrepoint. Adebowale was a member of the Social Exclusion Unit’s Policy Action Team on Young People and was Chair of the Review of Social Housing Co-ordination by the Institute of Public Policy Research.

Adebowale joined Turning Point as Chief Executive in September 2001. Turning Point is a care organisation providing services for people with complex needs, including those affected by drug and alcohol misuse, mental health problems and those with a learning disability. In addition to providing direct services, Turning Point also campaigns nationally on behalf of those with social care needs.

Adebowale has been involved in a number of taskforce groups, advising the government on mental health, learning disability and the role of the voluntary sector. He is Co-Chair of the Black and Minority Ethnic Mental Health National Steering Group and is a member of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs. He is a patron of Rich Mix Centre Celebrating Cultural Diversity, a patron of Tomorrow’s Project and of the National College for School Leadership. He is a member of the National Employment Panel, the New Economics Foundation Board and the Institute for Fiscal Studies Council. He is also on the policy advisory board of the Social Market Foundation, and on the board of the National School of Government. He is a Director of Leadership in Mind organisational development consultancy, a non-exec of the health IT consultancy St Vincents and a member of the Audit Commission and has advised governments of all parties on Employment, Housing, Poverty and Public Service Reform.

Adebowale has an honorary PhD from the University of Central England in Birmingham, an honorary doctor of letters from the University of Lincoln, an honorary PhD from the University of East London and most recently an honorary doctorate from the University of Bradford, where he is involved with their Centre for Inclusion and Diversity, in December 2007. He is an honorary fellow of London South Bank University and Honorary Senior Fellow in the Health Services Management Centre at the University of Birmingham. In 2009 he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD) degree from Lancaster University.

On 12 December 2008, Adebowale was installed as Chancellor of the University of Lincoln. Adebowale has a Post Graduate Diploma From the Tavistock institute and an MA in Advanced Organisational Consulting from the City University London.

Nice one

Name: Baroness Margaret Omolola Young.

Ethnicity: British Nigerian

Party: Crossbench

Lola Young, Baroness Young of Hornsey



Lola Young, Baroness Young of Hornsey, OBE (born Margaret Omolola Young, 1 June 1951) is a British actress, author, and Crossbench peer.

Young was educated at the Parliament Hill School for Girls in London and went then to the New College of Speech and Drama, where she received a diploma in dramatic art in 1975, and a teaching certificate one year later. In 1988 she graduated from Middlesex Polytechnic with a Bachelor of Arts in Contemporary Cultural Studies.

Young worked as a professional actress from 1976 to 1984, and had been a residential social worker in the London Borough of Islington from 1971 to 1973. Her most prominent role as an actress was in children's sitcom Metal Mickey which ran from 1980 to 1983. In 1985, she became co-director and training and development manager at the Haringey Arts Council, a post she held until 1989.

From 1990 to 1992, Young was lecturer in media studies at the Polytechnic of West London. In the following she was lecturer, senior lecturer, principal lecturer, Professor of cultural studies and in the end Emeritus professor at the Middlesex University. In 1995 she published Fear of the Dark: Race, Gender and Sexuality in Cinema.

Young became Project director of the Archives and Museum of Black Heritage in 1997, she was Commissioner in the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts in the years 2000 and 2001, and Chair at Nitro Theatre Company in 2004.

Young was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2001 New Year Honours.

From 2001 to 2004 she was head of culture at the Greater London Authority, following which she was created a life peer on 22 June 2004 taking the title Baroness Young of Hornsey of Hornsey in the London Borough of Haringey.

Other public appointments have included English Heritage’s Blue Plaques Committee, membership of the board of the Royal National Theatre, the South Bank Centre, and the board of Governors of Middlesex University, chairing the Arts Council’s Cultural Diversity Panel, and membership of the board of Resource, the Council of Museums, Archives and Libraries, and a commissioner on the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts. She has also chaired the judging panel of the Orange Prize for Fiction.

She takes an active interest in ethical issues in international trade, particularly the garment industry , is a Trustee of the Aid by Trade Foundation and is an honorary associate of the National Secular Society

They were born to Nigerian parents. That doesn't make them Nigerian

They were schooled in the UK and grew up enjoying the facilities of the UK government. That makes them British

I don't understand why peeps are describing these guys, including that Umunna guy, as Nigerian.

HiiiPower: Name: Baroness Margaret Omolola Young.
Ethnicity: British Nigerian
Party: Crossbench
Lola Young, Baroness Young of Hornsey

Lola Young, Baroness Young of Hornsey, OBE (born Margaret Omolola Young, 1 June 1951) is a British actress, author, and Crossbench peer.
Young was educated at the Parliament Hill School for Girls in London and went then to the New College of Speech and Drama, where she received a diploma in dramatic art in 1975, and a teaching certificate one year later. In 1988 she graduated from Middlesex Polytechnic with a Bachelor of Arts in Contemporary Cultural Studies.
Young worked as a professional actress from 1976 to 1984, and had been a residential social worker in the London Borough of Islington from 1971 to 1973. Her most prominent role as an actress was in children's sitcom Metal Mickey which ran from 1980 to 1983. In 1985, she became co-director and training and development manager at the Haringey Arts Council, a post she held until 1989.
From 1990 to 1992, Young was lecturer in media studies at the Polytechnic of West London. In the following she was lecturer, senior lecturer, principal lecturer, Professor of cultural studies and in the end Emeritus professor at the Middlesex University. In 1995 she published Fear of the Dark: Race, Gender and Sexuality in Cinema.
Young became Project director of the Archives and Museum of Black Heritage in 1997, she was Commissioner in the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts in the years 2000 and 2001, and Chair at Nitro Theatre Company in 2004.
Young was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2001 New Year Honours.
From 2001 to 2004 she was head of culture at the Greater London Authority, following which she was created a life peer on 22 June 2004 taking the title Baroness Young of Hornsey of Hornsey in the London Borough of Haringey.
Other public appointments have included English Heritage’s Blue Plaques Committee, membership of the board of the Royal National Theatre, the South Bank Centre, and the board of Governors of Middlesex University, chairing the Arts Council’s Cultural Diversity Panel, and membership of the board of Resource, the Council of Museums, Archives and Libraries, and a commissioner on the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts. She has also chaired the judging panel of the Orange Prize for Fiction.
She takes an active interest in ethical issues in international trade, particularly the garment industry , is a Trustee of the Aid by Trade Foundation and is an honorary associate of the National Secular Society

How is this person of Nigerian heritage?

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How is this person of Nigerian heritage?

17. Professor Lola Young (b. 1951)
Academic
‘My motivation for participating in this kind of work is that we are not simply discussing a series of comforting or disturbing images but attempting to discover what might be read off about a particular moment in a culture of society from the way in which these (meta-) narratives are constructed and disseminated, and the impact on social relations of these representations and the cultural forms in which they appear’.

Born to Nigerian parents in the UK in 1951. Studied drama at New College of Speech and Drama in London and after acting experience in the theatre and television, attended Middlesex University. Continuing with post-graduate courses, she began teaching and cites her greatest achievement as being one of the very few black women appointed as a university professor in the UK. Lola Young is Professor of Cultural Studies at Middlesex University.
http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/about/photographs-collection/national-photographic-record/black-power-photographs-by-donald-maclellan.php

HiiiPower:

17. Professor Lola Young (b. 1951)
Academic
‘My motivation for participating in this kind of work is that we are not simply discussing a series of comforting or disturbing images but attempting to discover what might be read off about a particular moment in a culture of society from the way in which these (meta-) narratives are constructed and disseminated, and the impact on social relations of these representations and the cultural forms in which they appear’.

Born to Nigerian parents in the UK in 1951. Studied drama at New College of Speech and Drama in London and after acting experience in the theatre and television, attended Middlesex University. Continuing with post-graduate courses, she began teaching and cites her greatest achievement as being one of the very few black women appointed as a university professor in the UK. Lola Young is Professor of Cultural Studies at Middlesex University.
http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/about/photographs-collection/national-photographic-record/black-power-photographs-by-donald-maclellan.php

Thank you, I thought she was of Caribbean descent.