Kingslee James McLean Daley (born 1 December 1983), better known by his stage name Akala, is a British rapper, journalist, author, activist and poet from Kentish Town, London. In 2006, he was voted the Best Hip Hop Act at the MOBO Awards and has been included on the annual Powerlist of the 100 most influential Black British people in the UK, most recently making the 2021 edition.

Daley was born in Crawley, West Sussex, in 1983 to a Scottish mother and Jamaican father who separated before he was born and grew up with his mother "in the clichéd, single-parent working-class family," in Kentish Town, north London. He remembers the day he realised that his mum was white, and was embarrassed by her whiteness. His mother had educated him about black history and introduced him to radical black thinkers, yet there would always remain a racial dimension to those relationships. Daley's older sister is rapper Ms. Dynamite.

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