Even as he was, Arday had great dreams. He wrote on his mother's bedroom wall that he would eventually become a Cambridge or Oxford University staff. This dream has become true.
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His hard work took him to the doorstep of his dreams. Now the youngest black professor at Cambridge University, Arday is another example of a man who fought the odds and won.
“As optimistic as I am, there’s just no way I could have thought that would have happened. If I was a betting person, the odds on it were so long. It’s just mad,” Arday said in an interview with The Times of UK