'What's the problem?' Nana Akua says Fiona Bruce is 'not racist' amid Question Time row

Bruce gestured to the man, saying: “The guy there in the middle… The black guy in the middle. Yes, you sir.”

Following the comment, many took to social media to call out Bruce for her words which were blasted as 'racist'.

Bruce later posted on social media an apology for any offense she had caused.

However, Nana made her position on the divisive introduction clear during an appearance on GBN Tonight, with host Mark Dolan.

When asked if an apology was necessary from Bruce, Nana said: “No, he is black. What’s the problem? He’s black!”

Drawing from personal experience, Nana said “I’ve been called the black girl. I don’t have a problem with it. Nobody is insulting or offending.”

“You’re looking at a room that’s mostly filled with white people and there’s one person there who is black.”

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“You’re describing that person just by looking at them, with what their descriptive characteristics are!”

Nana also shared the story of a previous presenting job she had been on, where a similar incident occurred.

“One time I was presenting a show and there was a person in the gallery, a black girl, and she was the only black girl in the gallery.”

“They went ages, describing what she was wearing, and in the end I went in and said ‘What, the black girl?’”

“They said ‘yeah’ and I thought ‘Well why didn’t you just say that?’”

Nana closed off her thoughts, saying: “She’s not being offensive!”

“I appreciate she didn’t reference the white people, but that’s because the room was mostly full of white people.”

“It’d be the same if you were in Ghana and there was a white person in the crowd, you would say ’the white person’, and that’s not an insult.”