Akala is a English rapper and poet. He has been called an intellectual rapper

Akala is the founder of The Hip Hop Shakespeare Company which is based in London. His favourite book as a child Salmon Rushdie's Haroun And The Sea Of Stories, and the book he is reading now, Black Athena by Martin Bernal. #eveningstandard #getreadingfestival http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4835.HarounAndTheSeaOfStories http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/745332.BlackAthena