It is reliably fake. Especially when the Magic Negroes are said to be especially, impressively, astonishingly, magic.
Born to Ghanaian parents, Arday grew up on a council estate (the British equivalent of Section 8 housing) in south London. At age three he was diagnosed with global development delay and autism. Therapists said he would be confined to an assisted living facility. Miraculously, at 11 years old, he spoke his first word (“hello”). When he was 18, he learned to read and write.
Under the influence of a white high school teacher who “gave [him] agency,” Arday pursued higher education. After receiving a PhD from Liverpool John Moores University, he rocketed up the academic ladder as a scholar of racism, education, and inequality. In three years he went from senior lecturer at Roehampton (2018) to associate professor at Durham (2019) to professor at Glasgow (2021). Ivy League universities (plural) tried to recruit him, but he had his heart set on Oxford or Cambridge. In 2023, at age 37, he became the youngest black full professor in the history of Cambridge. He is one of the youngest people of any race to ever hold a chair professorship at Oxbridge.
In his spare time, Arday ran 30 marathons in 35 days and 300 miles in three days.
As of 2023, he had worked with “more than 70” charities and raised more than £5 million.
Up until his appointment at Cambridge, Arday continued to face unspecified hardships. As reported by the Guardian in 2023, despite previously being a professor at Durham and Glasgow, “He has barely slept over the past 15 years…, working through most nights—often on his academic and charity work, but sometimes just to make ends meet.”
Most seemingly credible successes are fake these days. There is absolutely no chance that the incredible ones are even remotely true. Especially not those that are connected to Clown World institutions like Oxford, Cambrdige, and registered charities in some way.
This story passes the sniff test about as well as rancid, month-old deli meat slipping past a customs hound.