Selected images from 1800 – 1923
Encyclopaedia Africana J
March 27, 2021
JOSEPH A. HUNTE/JOE HUNTE
See also: Nigger Hunting in England
Encyclopaedia Africana J
March 21, 2021
JOAN ARMATRADING
Joan Armatrading never embraced the R&B style performed by most U.S. Black artists at the time and most popular among American music consumers. Ironically her music was considered “white” even though she was Black.
Encyclopaedia Africana J
March 21, 2021
JOMO KENYATTA
While in Europe, Kenyatta studied anthropology at the London School of Economics, gave public lectures, wrote to newspapers, traveled across Europe and participated in the Pan-African Congress.
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Encyclopaedia Africana J
March 18, 2021
JOHN BLANKE
Other Africans were brought to Britain at various times although the continuous presence of Black people in Britain is traced to 1555, when Africans arrived in the company of a London merchant.
Encyclopaedia Africana J
March 13, 2021
JEAN-JACQUES DESSALINES
Fearing a French resurgence and the reinstatement of slavery that would accompany it, he ordered the massacre of approximately 5,000 of the island’s white men, women, and children declaring “I have saved my country.
Encyclopaedia Africana J
March 11, 2021
JOHN HAWKINS, ENSLAVER
John Hawkins effectively set the pattern that became known as the English slave trade triangle.
Encyclopaedia Africana J
March 8, 2021
JERRY RAWLINGS
“The most dangerous mistake of any political force is to forget its roots.”
Encyclopaedia Africana J
March 6, 2021
JIMMY CLIFF
“I’d rather be a free man in my grave than living as a puppet or a slave.”
Encyclopaedia Africana J
February 27, 2021
JOHN SENTAMU
In 1997, partly because of his brief experience as a judge in Uganda and because of his respected position of Bishop of Stepney, Sentamu was asked and agreed to serve as an advisor to a judicial inquiry into the racially motivated killing of black college student, Stephen Lawrence, which had occurred three years prior.