Kwame Kwei-Armah (born 1966) is a British actor, playwright, singer and broadcaster. In 2005 he became the first black Briton to have a play staged in the West End when his award-winning piece Elmina's Kitchen transferred to the Garrick Theatre in 2005. Born Ian Roberts in Hillingdon, London, and raised in Southall, he changed his name in his early 20s after tracing his family history, through the slave trade back to his ancestral African roots in Ghana. His parents were born in Grenada.

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