While working as the coordinator of Special Projects at the Greater London Council in the 1980s, a young Akyaaba Addai-Sebo, had to console a colleague, an Afrikan woman who had tried to consciously raise her six year-old son with a positive self image (even naming him after Marcus Garvey), when…

Private fostering is the subject of a new film, White Nanny Black Child, by award winning director Andy Mundy-Castle who hopes that it will bring the rarely discussed experiences of tens of thousands of people that have gone through it into the light. Between 1955 and 1995, more than 70,000…

When Carter G Woodson founded Negro History Week in 1926, he believed that “young African Americans in the early 20th century were not being taught enough of their own heritage, and the achievements of their ancestors.” (1) The 1987 founders in the UK built on this by linking the observance…

It’s forty years since the USA invasion of the Caribbean island of Grenada, thereby bringing to an abrupt end the revolution that in four and a half short years had transformed the country and reverberated around the world. (1) The New Joint Endeavor for Welfare, Education, and Liberation (New JEWEL…

Founded in the in 1987 under the inspiration of visionary Baba Akyaaba Addai-Sebo, Black History Month (BHM) in the UK was directly linked to liberation movements and had the goal to the elevate the “Afrikan personality” in the public sphere, especially for our children. (1) However, since then BHM has…