It’s Afrika Liberation Month.  On May 25th 1963, designated Afrika Liberation Day (ALD), the independent heads of government met in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to establish the Organisation of Afrikan Unity.  Although the resultant organisation ended up being a compromise between competing blocs – the more radical Casablanca group  (consisting of Ghana,…

In spite of the best efforts of the government, including appointing a home secretary who claims him and his own family could been facing the threat of deportation (1), the Windrush scandal does not appear to be dying down.   Reports have emerged that while Theresa May was offering hand-wringing…

The mother of the international Black Nation Mama Nomzamo Madikizela-Mandela has been laid to rest after a programme at Soweto’s Orlando Stadium, appropriately amidst lightning flashes and roaring thunder. (1)  The tributes to the Warrior Queen Mama were effusive..  Her eldest daughter Zenani Mandela-Dlamini shared: “We were unprepared for the…

  Wherever you look it appears that Afrikan young people are under attack. From Edson Da Costa and Rashan Charles to Terrell Decosta Jones-Burton they are killed or brutalised at the hands of so-called law enforcement (1)   Currently, there is copious hand-wringing about the numbers of young people dying…