We continue our exploration of how we represent out history to our children.  Previously we looked at the role of the institutions, namely our foundation (“supplementary/Saturday”) schools and their dedicated practitioners. Tonight we look at the resources, tools of their trade so to speak – the books. For decades, for…

When the founders of Black History Month in the UK, headed by Baba Akyaaba Addai-Sebo established the event in African Jubilee Year 34 years ago, engaging young people was considered a fundamental tenet. (1) However, when the major institutions backing the event, the Greater London Council, Inner London Education Authority…

In the UK the tenth month of the year is observed as “Black History Month” since its inception in 1987.  An observance built that which was established in the USA as “Negro History Week” in February1926 by one Carter Godwin Woodson.  His vision was that celebration would “increase awareness of,…

When John Forte of the Refugee Camp rapped “Mathematics was the key to set my whole race free” (1) it spoke to a profound truth of Afrikan history that maths and its techno-cultural descendants began in Afrika.  However, the history of mathematics tends to focus on the achievements of Greek,…

As we contemplate the 113th anniversary of the birth of Afrika’s “Man of the Millennium”, the Osagyefo (“the redeemer”) Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, it is in acknowledgement that, in spite of the momentous strides made in the service of Afrika, his is still a legacy unfulfilled following the CIA backed coup…