“And it puts a lens on racism and what it was like in the 80s.
So it’s perhaps with a sense of retroactive rebalancing that Elba has now created a semi-autobiographical sitcom set in the era of his own coming of age.
Elba would also have been too young to enjoy ITV’s The Fosters, the first all-black British sitcom and best remembered now as the first screen role for a young Lenny Henry.
And I feel like now the show has the potential to give a window to the African experience, and that culture.