By Mhairi McAlpine / @Mhairi_McAlpine
Growing up in the 1970s, I didn’t have the most politically correct upbringing. A gollywog adorned the jam jar I stared blankly at as I woke up over my morning toast, in school we read “Little Black Sambo” – complete with illustrations, for pleasure I read about how evil Gollywogs were, [...]
By Kwame Nkrumah on 6th March 1957 in Accra:
At long last, the battle has ended! And thus, Ghana, your beloved country is free forever!
And yet again, I want to take the opportunity to thank the people of this country; the youth, the farmers, the women who have so nobly fought and won the battle. Also, [...]
In 1998, the UN’s body for education, science and culture, UNESCO, instituted the 23rd of August as International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition. This day was picked as it was the day that enslaved Africans decided to liberate themselves on what was one of the most fierce enslavement conditions [...]
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