Dzagbele Matilda Asante – A Ghanaian nurse in postwar Britain
History consultant Kwaku recounts the story of his mother-in-law, Dzagbele Matilda Asante, who was working in Britain as a nurse at the time the NHS was founded in 1948
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‘Being Black is a crime’ – words that are still too true in Britain
Being Black is all too often regarded as being a crime in the UK, but the greater crime lies with those who believe in this prejudice, says Clayton Goodwin
Megxit: Does the UK have a race problem?
Has British racism driven Prince Harry and Meghan Markle to leave the UK’s royal family and go to live in Canada?
UK visa system for African visitors requires urgent reform
Without prejudice to the UK’s right as a sovereign state to determine its own immigration policy and visa system for visitors to the UK, I call on the UK government to give urgent attention to improving the current system.
Why cultural change is so difficult
Ideas shape peoples and nations; and nations change only when the ideas that supported them also change. But as the case of the Igbo declaration …
African-origin politicians step into breach
In the wake of the stalled Brexit, young politicians of African origin are emerging as some of the sanest voices. Writes Clayton Goodwin. Africans are …