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AFRIKAN (BLACK) HISTORY

SEASON/BEYOND BLACK HISTORY

MONTH OCTOBER 2016

BLACK LIVES MATTER

RHODES MUST FALL

BLACK BANKS MATTER

90th Anniversary of 'Negro History Week' 7th February 1926 – 2016

50th Anniversary of Notting Hill Carnival 1966 – 2016

30th Anniversary of Black History Month 1987 -

30th Anniversary Since 'Caribbean Year' - 'Caribbean Focus '86'

210th Anniversary of the British Parliamentary Act of 1807 abolishing

slave trade in British ships

70th Anniversary of the landing of the Empire Windrush 1948

50th Anniversary of Leeds Carnival 1967 -

BLACK BUSINESSES MATTER

Welcome to the 2016 Afrikan (Black) History Season/Beyond Black History Month

programme. In 1987, twenty-nine years ago Britain's Afrikan heritage community

decided to follow the example of Afrikan-Americans and embarked on developing and

promoting events to commemorate and celebrate the presence, achievements and

contributions of Afrika and people of Afrikan heritage at home and abroad. From

1983 Oxford has regularly featured events such as the Martin Luther King

Commemoration Celebrations (MLKCC), Mary Seacole Day etc. However, Oxford did

not embark on a 'Black History Month' programme per sé until the mid-late 1990s.

In Britain, for more than a decade, there has been growing discontent with the label 'Black'

when used to define Afrikan history. Here in Oxford and Oxfordshire we are moving away

from 'Black History' to Afrikan History, to truly reflect the history of the continent and its

people and those of the Afrikan diaspora. In this endeavour in 2016 we intend to honour Dr.

Carter G. Woodson, by holding a series of talks/discussion, films about his work and how far

we've come since his pioneering initiative.

This year 2016, marks the 90th anniversary of 'Negro History Week' (7th February

1926), in the United States, which was founded by Dr. Carter G Woodson. It also

marks the 50th anniversary of Notting Hill Carnival (1966), 30th anniversary since

'Caribbean Year' Caribbean Focus 86' and thirty years since the first Caribbean

carnival procession in Oxford.

Looking ahead, 2017 will mark the 210th anniversary of the British Parliamentary Act

of 1807, which abolished the trans-Atlantic slave trade in British ships. We also

celebrate the 30th anniversary of 'Black History Month' in Britain. 50 years since the

Leeds Carnival was held.

2018 marks the 70th year since the landing of the 'Empire Windrush' which brought

448 Caribbeans to Britain. It also marks 50 years since the assassination of Rev, Dr.

Martin Luther King Jr. (4th April 1968)

ACKHI's aim is to see the development of a comprehensive and coordinated calendar

of events which mark Afrikan (Black) History events throughout the year.

We hope you will find the events programme informative, interesting and enjoyable

and that you will attend, participate and feedback your comments and ideas, good,

bad or indifferent to enable us to improve the events programme and extend the

range of activities across Oxfordshire.

Enjoy!

Junie James

Director (Voluntary)

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For more details visit: www ackhi.org

OCTOBER 2016

Saturday 1st

LAUNCH: 90 years of African History - Why “Black Lives Matter”

'90 years of Afrikan History' Junie James (Director (Voluntary) ACKHI

Display of 'Black History' events including small photographic display of 'Caribbean Carnival

1986

Video Dr. Joy De Gruy Leary author of Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome

Time: 6:00pm – 8:30pm

Entry fee: Free (donations toward next year's programme)

Refreshments on sale.

Venue: East Oxford Community Centre, Princes Street, OX4 1DD

Sunday October 9th

"Black Lives Matter" "Bounty" "Coconut" "Uncle Tom" is it helpful to use these terms?

A presentation and discussion of the "Black Lives Matter" campaign viewed from an English

perspective

Time: 5:00pn – 7:00pm

Venue: East Oxford Community Centre, Princes St. OX4 1DD

Entry: Free

Wednesday 12 October

Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome – Dr Joy DeGruy Leary – Restoring the African Mind. This is an exploration of the work of Dr DeGruy Leary and her brilliant diagnosis of the African

Mind: enduring three hundred years of being told by European Educators, Politicians,

Clergymen, and Missionaries that we were cargo, beasts of burden, less than human, without

a history, and with no contribution to world history. The aim is to help to heal and restore the

thinking and behaviour of people of African heritage.

Time: 5:00PM – 7:00pm

Venue: Oriel College, OXFORD, OX1 4EW

Entry: Free

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Wednesday 12th

Oxford Brookes University presents:

An Open Lecture with Simon Woolley, Director, Operation Black Vote.

"Politics in Britain - a self-fulfilling prophecy"

Time: 6.00pm to 7.00pm

Venue: Chakrabarti Room, (JHB 208) John Henry Brookes Building, Headington Campus,

Oxford Brookes University

Entry: Free All are welcome

Sunday 16th

African School and Natty Mark, in conjunction with Ark-T presents:

'Word and the Warrior'Interactive workshop, celebrating early Black Journalism.

Suitable for 11+

Caribbean Food – suggested £5:00 donations

Time: 4:00pm -6:00pm

Entry Free: Donations to Black Lives Matter UK

Venue: Ark-T Centre, John Bunyan Baptist Church Crowell Road, Cowley OX4

Sunday 16th

'The Quest for Reparations'Is it time for financial Reparations and Judicial Justice? Parliament always has enough money

for bombs and wars therefore, it is time for financial Reparations and Judicial Justice for those who were enslaved and colonised in order to put the "Great" in the Britain. The time has

arrived for this generation of English People of African and Caribbean heritage to demand

Reparation. When £50 million pounds of British public money can be used to honour and

remember the suffering of people under German authority during the second European war,

then it is time that our government honoured the African contribution to the wealth of

England.

Time: 5:00pm – 7:00pm

Venue: East Oxford Community Centre, Princes St, OX4 1DD

Entry: Free

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Tuesday 18th

'Pioneer and the Pen: interactive workshop celebrating early Black Journalism. Led by Natty (Mark) Samuels

Time: 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Venue: Green Room (G13) Headington Hill, Headington Campus, Oxford Brookes University

Entry: Free

Open to Everyone

Wednesday 19th October

“Between The World and Me”A Discussion on the Ta-Nehisi Coates' book Between The World And Me, which is being

developed from an English perspective.

At Oriel College in collaboration with students from Linacre.

Time: 5:00pm – 7:00pm

Venue: Oriel College, OXFORD OX1 4EW

Entry: Free

Friday 21st

Oxford International Women's Festival (OIWF) presents Special Screening of Imitation of Life

Imitation of Life is a 1959 American romantic drama

directed by Douglas Sirk, produced by Ross Hunter and

released by Universal International, starring Lana Turner

and John Gavin. It was Sirk's final Hollywood film and

dealt with issues of race, class and gender.

A struggling young actress with a six-year-old daughter

sets up housekeeping with a homeless black widow and

her light-skinned eight-year-old daughter who rejects her

mother by trying to pass for white.

The cast also features Sandra Dee, Dan O'Herlihy, Susan

Kohner, Robert Alda and Juanita Moore as Annie

Johnson. Kohner and Moore received Academy Award

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nominations for their performances. Gospel music star Mahalia Jackson appears as a church

choir soloist.

Time: 7:30pm – 10:30pm (film starts at 7:45pm)

Entry Free

Venue: East Oxford Community Centre, Princes Street OX4 1DD

Saturday 22nd - Nov. 4th

The Dub Exhibition - Featuring the artwork of those who've contributed to The Dub. Venue: Fusion Arts 'A' Block

East Oxford Community Centre, Princes Street, OX4 1DD

Entry: Free

Saturday 22nd

Health and The African Family in The UKWhat are the Health and social well-being needs of African Families in the UK? - A

conversation led by Africans for Africans about Africans living in the UK today.

A whole family event. Activities available for children ages 5 and above. A play area available

for under 5’s in same room as parents.

Open to all.

Refreshments Free

Time: 2:00pm – 5:30pm

Entry: Free

Venue: Regal Community Centre, Ridgefield Road, Cowley, OX4 3BY

Sunday October 23rd

'A Good Read'

Ten essential books that ought to be read, studied and debated by all people of African

heritage: Robin Walker's When We Ruled”, Martin Bernal's Black Athena and Dr. Walter

Rodney's " How Europe Underdeveloped Africa.".......

Time: 5:00pm – 7:00pm

Venue: Oriel College, OXFORD OX1 4EW

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Entry: Free

Wednesday 26th

Would Africa benefit from having a University on the scale of Oxbridge for her bright and eager students? This presentation will be presented by the principle of Linacre College.

Followed by; The marvellous life and example of Thomas Sankara: by a trade Union

representative presentation and also the historical life of Peter Tosh by his biographer John

Masouri.

Time: 3:00pm – 6:00pm

Venue: Linacre College,

Entry: Free

Sunday 30th

Debate “Christians and Muslims have enslaved Africans for centuries. If Africans had

to choose a Slave Master would Africans choose a Muslim or a Christian Slave

Master?” Which of these Faiths offered a better life for the African Slave; Arabic

Muslims, or European Christianity?

Time: 5:00pm – 7:00 p.m

Venue: East Oxford Community Centre, Princes St, OX4 1DD

Entry: Free

NOVEMBER

Wednesday 2nd

'Marley's Children' Examining the massive impact Bob Marley's 1977 arrival in England had on reshaping the

thinking, appearance and values of English children of Caribbean, African and European

heritage. Looking at the impact on England's people of the arrival of Bob Marley in 1977.

Time: 5:00pm - 7:00pm

Venue: Oriel College, Broad Street, Oxford, OX1 4EW

Entry: Free

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Friday 4th Oxford International Women's Festival (OIWF) Special Screening of For Colored Girls

For Colored Girls is a 2010 American drama film

adapted from Ntozake Shange's 1975 stage play ‘For

colored girls who have considered suicide / when the

rainbow is enuf.’ Written, directed and produced by

Tyler Perry, the film features an ensemble cast which

includes Janet Jackson, Whoopi Goldberg, Phylicia

Rashad, Thandie Newton, Loretta Devine, Anika Noni

Rose, Kimberly Elise, and Kerry Washington.

The film depicts the interconnected lives of nine

women, exploring their lives and struggles as women

of color. The film's lead cast consists of nine African-

American women, seven of whom are based on the

play's seven characters, only known by color (e.g.

"lady in red," "lady in brown," "lady in yellow,"). Like

its source material, each character deals with a

different personal conflict, such as love,

abandonment, rape, infidelity, and abortion.

Time: 7:30pm – 10:30pm (film starts at 7:45pm)

Venue: East Oxford Community Centre, Princes Street. OX4 1DD

Entry: Free

Saturday 5th

A Celebration of the Life and music of Bob Marley: With a sit-down two course traditional

Caribbean meal:

Dinner: 7:00pm – 8:30pm

Dance: 8:30-midnight music in the main hall to: talking, socialising and Dancing to the

Marley's Music

Tickets available from Artwell

Time: 6:30pm – l10:00pm

Venue: East Oxford Community Centre, Princes St., OX4 1DD

Entry: £10 inclusive

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Saturday 5th

Greater Finance EmpowermentLearn better finance Management from experts, saving tips (avoid Christmas overspend),

investment ideas, business tips for starters, getting on the property ladder

Opportunity to interact, network, ask questions to experts

Refreshments Free

Time: 10:00am – 4:00pm

Venue: Word Fountain Christian Ministries, 73 Hollow Way OX4 2ND

Entry: Free

DECEMBER

Monday 19th

Birthday of Dr. Carter G. Woodson (19th December - 3rd April1950)

'Honour The Father' Celebrating the birth of Dr. Carter G

Woodson.

An opportunity to pay homage to the father of what has now

become more popularly known as Black History Month.

Time: 5:00pm – 7:00pm

Entry: Free donations toward future programmes


What is Kwanzaa? Want to know more about this Africentric Afrikan Family festival?

ACKHI in collaboration with Roots 'N' Culture brings you quizzes, displays, books and more.

Entry: Will be by invitation (strictly an African Family event)

Date, time and venue to be confirmed

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Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

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“Until the lions tell their tale, the

story of the hunt will always

glorify the hunter” Afrikan

Proverb.

27 28 29

Republic Day

Trinidad and Tobago

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LAUNCH AFRIKAN HISTORY

SEASON

See p.2 for details

Nigeria (1960)

Independence Day

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Guinea (19 )

Independence Day

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Lesotho (1966)

Independence Day

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'A people without knowledge of

their past history and culture is

like a tree without roots' The

Honourable Marcus Mosiah

Garvey

(17 August 1887- 10 June 1940)

7 8 9 "Black Lives Matter"

See page 2 for details

Uganda (1962)

Independence Day

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'Post Traumatic Slave

Syndrome'


"Politics in Britain - a self-

fulfilling prophecy"


13 14“If a race has no history, if it has

no worthwhile tradition, it

becomes a negligible factor in

the thought of the world, and it

stands in danger of being

exterminated.”

Carter G. Woodson

15 16 'Word and the Warrior'


'The Quest for Reparations'


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National Heroes Day

Jamaica

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'Pioneer and the Pen'


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“Between The World And

Me”


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The thought of' the inferiority of

the Negro is drilled into him in

almost every class he enters and

in almost every book he studies.

Carter G. Woodson

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Imitation of Life the Film


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'Health and The African

Family In The UK'


The Dub Exhibition


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'A Good Read'


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Zambia (1964)

Independence Day

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Thanksgiving Day

Grenada

26A University of Africa?


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St Vincent & Grenadines

(1979)

Independence Day

28Education is the passport to the

future, for tomorrow belongs to

those who prepare for it today.

Malcolm X

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'The Slave Master'


31 1 NOVEMBER 2Marley's Children


3 Children's talent to endure

stems from their ignorance of

alternatives. Maya Angelou

4 'For Colored Girls' The Film


The Dub Exhibition


5 Finance

Empowerment


MARLEY DINNER & DANCE


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JANUARY 2017

Sunday 15 th

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration: 'From Civil Rights to Human Rights'

As we move into the 49th year since the assassination (4th April 1968) of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther

King Jr. and the rise in the 'Black Lives Matter' campaign in the USA which is fast being

mirrored in the UK. Amidst the concerns of the African heritage community in the UK and

growing concerns about the human rights of people of Afrikan heritage globally.

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on 4th April 1968 the Civil Rights activist is

remembered every year as a public holiday in the USA. In the UK various events take place to

honour Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and his legacy.

Time: 6:00pm – 8:00pm Venue: Holy Family Church, Blackbird Leys Road, Oxford, OX4 6

Entry: Free but donations toward future Afrikan (Black) History Season programmes welcome. Speakers to be announced.

FEBRUARY 2017

91 Years of Afrikan History acknowledgement and celebrations

'HONOUR THE FATHER'

From 'Negro History' to Afrikan History.

2016 marks the 90th anniversary of the founding of 'Negro History Week' 7thFebruary (1926)',

by Dr. Carter Godwin Woodson, an Afrikan American, who made it his mission in life to

promote the contributions of Afrika and its peoples to world development. ACKHI proposes

to hold a memorial lecture during February to commemorate and celebrate Dr. Carter G.

Woodson's pioneering work and achievements as well as his legacy.

Further details will be posted early 2017.

Tuesday, 7th

From Negro History to Afrikan History 1926 – 2016' - Honouring The Father'

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Discussion by local Afrikanists and Pan-Afrikanists on: How far 'Negro History has achieve

its original objectives?

Since the inception of 'Negro History Week' in 1926, it has undergone various name changes,

'Black History Month' being the longest serving and most popular. But we must ask ourselves,

should we accept 'Black' to define what we are talking about is the history of a continent, as

old as time itself? Yet we, in particular people of Afrikan heritage persist in defining our

history simply by a colour. No other continent or people would endorse such a label if it was

applied to them.

Presenters to be announced.

Time: 6:00pm – 8:00pm (TBC)

Entry: Free. Donations toward future Afrikan History Season programmes


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DATES TO REMEMBER

DECEMBER 2016

Monday, 5th

Death of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (18th July, 1918 - 5th December, 2013) First Black Afrikan

President of South Afrika (1994 - 1999)

Death of Alexander Dumas (24th July, 1802 - 5th December, 1870) author

Birthday of Stephen Bantu Biko (18 December 1946 – 12 September 1977)

JANUARY 2017

2nd Death of Dr. Frances Cress Welsing (18 March, 1935 - 2nd January2016) Frances Cress

Welsing was an American Africentrist psychiatrist. Her 1970 essay, The Cress Theory of

Confrontation and Racism, offered her interpretation on the origins of what she described as

white supremacy culture

4th Birthday of Cyril Lionel Robert James (CLR James) (4 January 1901 – 19 May 1989) author, and Pan-Afrikanists.

10th Birth day of Amy Ashwood Garvey (10 January 1897 – 3 May 1969) was a Jamaican

Pan-Africanist activist and the first wife of Marcus Garvey.

15th Birthday of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. - African American Preacher & Civil

Rights Activist.

FEBRUARY

3rd Ralston Milton "Rex" Nettleford, OM (Jamaica), FIJ, OCC (3 February 1933 - 2 February 2010), was

a Jamaican scholar, social critic, choreographer, and Vice-Chancellor Emeritus of the University of the

West Indies (UWI), the leading research university in the Commonwealth Caribbean.

3rd Stuart McPhail Hall, FBA (3 February 1932 – 10 February 2014) was a Jamaican-born

cultural theorist and sociologist

6th Bob (Robert Nesta) Marley (1945 - 11 May 1981)

23rd William Edward Burghardt "W. E. B." Du Bois (February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was

an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, and editor.

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MARCH

1st Ralph Ellison (March 1, 1913 – April 16, 1994) was an American novelist, literary critic,

and scholar and author of The Invisible Man.

10th (Died) Harriet Tubman (born Araminta Ross; (c. 1822 – March 10, 1913) was an African

American abolitionist, humanitarian, and an armed scout and spy for the

18th Dr. Frances Cress-Welsing (March 18, 1935 - 2nd January 2016) was an African American

and Afri(o)centrist psychiatrist

APRIL

MAY

19th MALCOLM X (Malcolm Little, also known as el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz, (May 19, 1925 - February 21, 1965) Minister, activist.

31st Anthony Burns (31 May 1834 – 17 July 1862) fugitive slave and abolitionists.

JUNE

12th Hakim Adi (12 June, 1957) is a British historian and scholar who specializes in African

affairs. He has written widely on Pan-Africanism and the modern political history of Africa and

the African diaspora.

28th George Padmore (28 June 1903 – 23 September 1959), born Malcolm Ivan Meredith

Nurse in Trinidad, was a leading Pan-Africanist, journalist, and author

JULY

2nd Patrice Émery Lumumba, (2 July 1925 – 17 January 1961), was a Congolese independence

leader and the first democratically elected leader of the Congo as prime minister.

13th Akinwande Oluwole "Wole" Babatunde Soyinka, (born 13 July 1934) is a Nigerian

playwright and poet. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first African to

be honoured in that category.

20th Frantz Omar Fanon, 20 July 1925 – 6 December 1961) was a Martiniquais-French

psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary, and writer whose works are influential in the fields of

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post-colonial studies, critical theory, and Marxism.

21st Buchi Emecheta OBE (born 21 July 1944) is a Nigerian novelist

23rd Haile Selassie I (23 July 1892 – 27 August 1975), born TafariMakonnen Woldemikael , was Ethiopia's regent from 1916 to 1930 and Emperor from 1930 to

1974.

24th Alexandre Dumas, born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie; (24 July 1802 – 5 December, 1870)

was a French writer.

AUGUST

3rd Edward Wilmot Blyden, (3 August 1832 – 7 February 1912), the father of Pan-Africanism,

was an educator, writer, diplomat, and politician primarily in Liberia.

3rd Lucky Philip Dube, (3 August 1964 – 18 October 2007) was a South African reggae musician

and Rastafarian.

15th Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (15 August 1875 – 1 September 1912) was an English composer

of part Creole descent.

17th Birth of: Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr., (17 August 1887 – 10 June 1940), was a Jamaican

political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a proponent of the

Pan-Africanism movement, to which he founded the Universal Negro Improvement

Association and African Communities League (UNIA-ACL). He also founded the Black Star Line,

a shipping and passenger line which promoted the return of the African diaspora to their

ancestral lands.

17th Death of: Charlotte Louise Bridges Forten Grimké (August 17, 1837 – July 23, 1914) was

an African-American antislavery activist, poet, and educator.

SEPTEMBER

18th or 21st Birth of: Kwame Nkrumah PC (September 18 or 21, 1909 – 27 April 1972) led

Ghana to independence from Britain in 1957 and served as its first prime minister and

president. Nkrumah first gained power as leader of the colonial Gold Coast, and held it until he

was deposed in 1966.

OCTOBER

24th Death of: Paul Bogle (1822 – 24 October 1865), was a Jamaican, Baptist deacon and

activist. He is a National Hero of Jamaica.

NOVEMBER

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6th Birth of: James Campbell Matthews (November 6, 1844 - November 1, 1930) was an

Albany, New York attorney and judge. He was notable as the first African American law school

graduate in New York.

16th Birth of: Chinua Achebe - born Albert Chinualumogu Achebe; (16 November 1930 – 21

March 2013) was a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic.

26th Death of: Sojourner Truth, born Isabella ("Bell") Baumfree; (c. 1797 – November 26,

1883) was an African-American abolitionist and women’s rights activist.

DECEMBER

17th Death of: Queen Anna Nzinga (c. 1583 – December 17, 1663), also known as Ana de Sousa Nzinga Mbande, was a 17th-century queen (muchino a muhatu) of the Ndongo and

Matamba Kingdoms of the Mbundu people in Angola.

21st Birth of: Yosef Alfredo Antonio Ben-Jochannan; (December 21, 1918 – March 19, 2015),

referred to by his admirers as "Dr. Ben", was an African-American writer and historian.

29th Birth of: Cheikh Anta Diop (29th December 1923 – 7th February 1986) was a historian,

anthropologist, physicist, and politician who studied the human race’s origins and pre-colonial

African culture.

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ACKHI PRESS announces the launch of its second 2015 publication 'Politics Of Love' By Euton Daley MBE. Copies are available from Euton Daley £5.00 include CD

Politics Of LoveEuton Daley

Everybody needs somethingsomebody

to love

Copies available from Euton: [email protected]

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Also available from ACKHI PRESS: 'Songs from my Shrine' by Natty Mark Samuels Published in March 2015 Cover Price: £5.99

Comb spine binding

Available from ACKHI at WWW.ackhi.org or from Natty Mark Samuels' African School

United Nation (UN) declaration International Decade for the people of

African Descent. 1 January 2015 and ending on 31 December 2024, with the

theme “People of African descent: recognition, justice and development”.

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