This time last year I was running around excitedly telling all my friends that I had an African president in the family, something none of them could boast. My younger daughter Theo is married to Sasha Scott, son of Dr Guy Scott, who was president of Zambia from October 2014 to January 2015, and the only white African president since apartheid.
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Lynn Barber began her career writing for Penthouse. She’s been named interviewer of the year at the British Press Awards six times.
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