Afrika Speaks

Tendai MWARI! Makorokoto egore idzva! Afenhyia pa! Odun de! Happy New Year As we bid farewell to the Kwanzaa season 2023-4, we feature an exlusive interview with Baba Kwame Steve

The 57th Kwanzaa season begins tomorrow and Afrikans around the world will be synchronised in observance of this Pan-Afrikan celebration of family, community and culture. For new celebrants we offer

The season of Kwanzaa, the seven-day Pan-Afrikan celebration of family, community and culture from 26th December to 1st January, is upon us again, seeking to put the constraints of lockdown

The UK prime minister, Rishi Sunak is fighting for his political life with his flagship policy of sending asylum seekers to Rwanda hanging in the balance. (1) The five-year plan

After the seven-day pause that saw 110 Hamas hostages and 180 detained by Israel released, military operations have resumed in Gaza (although arguably they never stopped in the West Bank).

As the death toll from Israel’s seven-week bombardment of Gaza exceeds 14,000, over a third of whom are children, an estimated tens of thousands marched through London on Sunday 26th

A number of recent reports suggest that depression in the Afrikan community is an increasing concern requiring “urgent” action. As it stands, Afrikan people in the UK are nearly five

Linda Creed’s lyrics to The Greatest Love Of All, first recorded by George Benson in 1977 begin: “I believe the children are our future Teach them well and let them

Tonight of Afrika Speaks we are honoured to welcome legendary Rasta Freedom Fighter, Poet, Musician, Broadcaster and writer – Mutabaruka as he embarks on a UK tour as part of

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