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A Nought youth Danny is badly wounded after being beaten by Cross cops for resisting arrest. In London, Cross police officers break up a Nought party. Ore Oduba as Obiora Akintola, a news anchor for CAN.Eunice Olumide as Omotola Aguda, a news anchor for CAN.Luke Bailey as Yaro Baloyi-Hadley, Kamal's illegitimate mixed race son.Stormzy as Kolawale, Editor-in-Chief of the Ohene Standard.Nicholas Beveney as Police Deputy Commissioner Folu Abiola.Nathaniel Ramabulana as Sergeant Major Bolade Oluade, Callum's commanding officer at Mercy Point.Jodie Tyack as Elaine Sawyer, a Nought cadet at Mercy Point.Ian Hart as Ryan McGregor, Callum and Jude's father and a former militant activist (season 1).Bonnie Mbuli as Jasmine Hadley, Kamal's wife and Sephy and Minerva's mother.Rakie Ayola as Prime Minister Opal Folami.Kiké Brimah as Minerva Hadley, Sephy's older sister.Jonathan Ajayi as Lieutenant Lekan Baako, a military officer and Sephy's boyfriend.Shaun Dingwall as Jack Dorn, leader of the Liberation Militia.Josh Dylan as Jude McGregor, Callum's militant older brother.Paterson Joseph as Home Secretary Kamal Hadley.Helen Baxendale as Meggie McGregor, Callum and Jude's mother and a housekeeper for the Hadley family.Jack Rowan as Callum McGregor, one of the first Nought army cadets at Mercy Point and a childhood friend of Sephy.Masali Baduza as Persephone "Sephy" Hadley, the daughter of a Cross politician and childhood friend of Callum.As of 1950, racial segregation is rigidly enforced in the colony between those of wealthy Aprican descent (known as Crosses or daggers) and the poorer native Europeans (known as Noughts or blankers). However, it is still accountable to the Aprican Empire based on the African continent. Īlbion appears to be a self-governing colony with its own (Cross) Prime Minister and executive leadership, an exclusively Cross police force, and a military only just opened up to a small number of Nought high-achievers. The Ottoman Empire also exists, controlling parts of Middle East. Russia and the Balkans remain in active conflict with the Aprican colonisers, although since the Great World War their national borders have been pushed back. After a conflict known as the Great World War, control of Europe is split between different Aprican factions, with mainland Europe under control of the Malian Empire and the Moors, whereas Albion (comprising Great Britain and Ireland) and parts of Scandinavia remain under the thumb of the Aprican Empire. The series takes place in present-day London in an alternative history where 700 years prior, several nations in (what is in our world known as) West Africa combined to form the powerful Aprican Empire and went on to colonise Europe. The BBC synopsis reads: "Against a background of prejudice, distrust and powerful rebellion mounting on the streets, a passionate romance builds between Sephy and Callum which will lead them both into terrible danger".