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Best buds: Guy Kennaway and Hussein Sharif
Credit: Craig Easton
When Guy Kennaway found himself sitting next to Hussein Sharif at a family event five years ago, they were pretty much each other’s idea of a nightmare dining companion.
They had nothing in common. Kennaway, now 63, a white, well off, rather overweight Tory, was an established author of several books. Sharif, now 25, a Left-wing, black Muslim, born in Kenya of Somali parents, who moved here aged seven, was living in a council house in Tottenham with his mother and had dropped out of university.
‘I’ve never met anyone like you,’ said Kennaway. ‘A young Muslim living in an inner-city council flat. I’ve seen you depicted in movies and you’re always on the TV news, often throwing something at the police, but I’ve never actually met anyone like you.’