MARCH 7/8 2020 How African DNA could change the world BY NEIL MUNSHI 3 FT.COM/MAGAZINE MARCH 7/8 2020 Issue number 860 • Online ft.com/magazine • Editorial inquiries 020 7873 3282 • Advertising inquiries 020 7873 3121 • FT Weekend Magazine is printed by the Walstead Group in the UK and published by The Financial Times Ltd, Bracken House, 1 Friday Street, London EC4M 9BT © The Financial Times Ltd 2020 • No part of this magazine may be reproduced in any form without the prior express permission of the publisher 5 Simon Kuper Do less work: top tips for the modern boss 6 Inventory John Macfarlane, theatre designer and artist 8 Tech World Bad tech nearly sent me to coronavirus quarantine 10 Robert Shrimsley Fee-free, extra Gramsci: life at Tony Benn University 10 Letters 12 Unravelling the African genome Africa’s vast, untapped genomic data could spur a global scientific revolution, transforming how we treat disease. But can we do it without exploiting the continent? Neil Munshi reports 20 Interview: Keira Knightley In her latest film, the actor plays a real- life activist who disrupted the 1970 Miss World. She talks to Emma Jacobs about #MeToo, motherhood and her own ‘feminist awakening’ 24 How to be believed Dina Nayeri on why we tend to think that most Harvard Business School graduates are telling the truth – and most refugees aren’t 28 Into the frame Photographer Rineke Dijkstra talks to Andrew Dickson about her contemporary take on the portrait 34 Waste not… Tim Hayward on Silo, which aims to be the world’s first zero-waste restaurant 38 Honey & Co Peanut butter cookies 41 Jancis Robinson Argentina: mainly excellent 42 My Addresses Chef-patron Francesco Mazzei on Cosenza, Calabria 43 Nicholas Lander SingleThread, California 45 Games 46 Gillian Tett From New York nail bars to Washington @FTMag Cover illustration by Diana Ejaita ‘Women’s stories aren’t being told from our points of view. It’s shocking’ Keira Knightley, p20 ARMANDO GALLO/ZUMA/EYEVINE ‘The government’s response to coronavirus has turned Beijing into a theatre of security’ Tech World, p8 ‘A sprinkle of salt, a good measure of white chocolate and whole peanuts for crunch’ Honey & Co’s peanut butter cookies, p38 5 FT.COM/MAGAZINE MARCH 7/8 2020 ILLUSTRATION BY HARRY HAYSOM