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 to the elevate the “Afrikan personality” in the public sphere, especially for our children. (1) However, since then BHM has…

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 coming up places like Birmingham, Bristol, Leicester and Nottingham. (1) The term barrel children was coined by Jamaican academic Dr…

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 massive legacy of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972), first president of Ghana, leading light of the continental independence movement and Afrika’s…

We continue our education series with an exploration of a concept brought up in the previous show – cultural capital. Mainstream academics locate the theory of cultural capital in respect of education to French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu in the 1970s where he suggests that it is “a form of capital…

In news rich in symbolism many Afrikan children may not be returning to school this week due to the “critical risk to life” from crumbling concrete panels in hundreds and possibly thousands of school buildings. (1) Even if they manage to dodge falling debris, the experience of many will be…