Afrika Speaks

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

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

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,

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

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

Award-winning journalist Nadine White’s debut film, Barrel Children: The Families Windrush Left Behind, a five-year labour of love, premiered in London last June to packed audiences, with scheduled national screenings

In pursuit of our ongoing mission to define time, space and circumstance in our own interests, we have renamed the ninth month of the year Osagyefo, in recognition of the