On Sunday 18 January 1981 a fire broke out in a house in New Cross Road, Deptford, South East London, killing 13 young people and marking a massive change for black people in Britain. Thirteen people died in the blaze and another, committed suicide 18 months later in July 1983, aged 20, having been traumatised …
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How Haiti won its independence
0n 5 December 1492, European navigator Christopher Columbus came upon an island in the Caribbean that he claimed for Spain and called La Isla Española (“The Spanish Island”, later Anglicised as Hispaniola). Spain colonised the island and enslaved the native Taino and Ciboney people. Forced to mine gold under brutal working conditions and overcome by …
Samuel Sharpe and the 1831 Christmas Rebellion
On 27 December 1831, the Christmas Rebellion began at the Kensington Estate in St James, Jamaica. Samuel Sharpe was the main instigator of the 1831 Slave Rebellion. Although he was a slave, he was also a leader of the native Baptists in Montego Bay. This enabled him to travel and spread his concerns and encourage …
The untold history of Jamaica
How we were made slaves and why we are still not free This is an interesting lecture that manages to span over 10,000 years of our history in under an hour. It looks at the people who lived on the island of Jamaica prior to Christopher Columbus’ so called discovery. It speaks about the transatlantic …
Princess Sara Forbes-Bonetta-Davies
Sarah Forbes Bonetta was the princess, born into the Egbado royal family of south-western Nigeria, who became a favourite of Queen Victoria and a regular visitor to Windsor Castle. Sarah was captured in 1848 during a slave-hunt war by the infamous King Ghezo of Dahomey when she was just eight years old. Her tribe was …
Slavery: A 21st Century Evil : Child slaves
Slavery is alive, thriving and bigger than ever. The documentary, Slavery: A 21st Century Evil: Child slaves shines a light on child slavery in Haiti. Child slavery escalated six months after a devastating earthquake demolished the Haitian capital and left a generation of orphans.
Africa Rising
Africa Rising examines how the West’s policy has affected Africa. From Clover films and filmmaker Jamie Doran, comes a documentary examining the failure of western policies towards Africa and rethinking the role of western aid workers on the continent. Narrated by Tilda Swinton, Africa Rising takes a look at the benefits of ‘Self Help’ in …
Wonders of the African World
The Wonders of the African World is an exuberant, visually stunning journey across Africa and through the history of its glorious but forgotten civilizations. Travelling by camel, by dhow, by Land Cruiser, and on foot, the renowned scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., takes us to twelve countries in search of Africa’s magnificent past, the …
500 Years Later
Crime, drugs, HIV/AIDS, poor education, inferiority complex, low expectation, poverty, corruption, poor health, and underdevelopment plagues people of African descent globally – Why? 500 years later from the onset of Slavery and subsequent Colonialism, Africans are still struggling for basic freedom-Why? Filmed in five continents, and over twenty countries, 500 Years Later engages the authentic …