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…

With nearly 700,000 children variously categorised as “Black” now back at school, the perennial question of how we get the best out of it for them rears its head. (1)  It’s a necessary question because not only have “UK schools… targeted black children for generations”, they continue to do so…