The LIP Magazine was a UK magazine published between 2002 and 2006. It's editors were Sharif Hamadeh (issues #0 to #4) and Mark Grimmer (issues #5 to #7). It was published by Leo Warner and Robert Sharp as a project of 59 Productions. The magazine explored ideas of globalisation and diversity and sought to "provide a defiantly pro-multicultural platform for students" across the UK and beyond. During its publication run, the magazine published interviews with F.W. de Klerk, Hanif Kureishi, Helen Oyeyemi, Ziauddin Sardar, Roger Scruton and the Dalai Lama. Bye-Bye Barbar: The Unstoppable Rise of the Afropolitan As part of the LIP#5 Africa issue, the magazine published the essay by Taiye Selasi, who was a student at Oxford University at the time. The essay was widely disseminated and reprinted.
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