Just six months after receiving the Order of Distinction (OD) Officer Class for their contribution to the development of Jamaican music, The Mighty Diamonds the longest lasting group in the history reggae music, tragically lost two of their three original members within days of each other. (1) On the night…

Just three months after one of their members was present to see Barbados jettison the UK queen as their head of state (1), more of the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha tribe, this time monikered “Cambridge” have again made a beeline to the region this time the Bahamas, Belize and Jamaica – by all…

We return to the horn of Afrika to continue our examination of the situation in Ethiopia.  In the previous show Afrika Speaks itself was accused of making a “big mistake choosing sides” with the assumption that we were accepting the government narrative wholesale while ignoring its misdeeds. (1)  This is…

The Afrikan community is rightly outraged on hearing the news, that has just emerged, of ‘Child Q’, a 15-year-old Hackney school girl that was strip-searched on school premises by the police who were aware that she was menstruating at the time. (1) Although the search, termed by some as state…

TENDAI MWARI Reverend Hewlette Andrew, ‘Baba Hewie’, died in his native Dominica on 11 March 2022, having retired there in 2017 after over 40 years of service to communities in the UK and across the Afrikan world. He was born into a Methodist family in Dominica in 1938 to parents…