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Awards

• B.Sc. (with honors), University of London, 1972
• New Statesman Jock Campbell Award for literature by new or unregarded talent from Africa or the Caribbean, 1978
• New Statesman Jock Campbell Award for Commonwealth Writers, The Slave Girl, 1979
• Best Black British Writer 1978
• British Home Secretary's Advisory Council on Race, 1979 – current
• Arts Council of Great Britain - 1982 to 1983
• One of the Best British Young Writers, 1983
• PhD, University of London, 1991