Posted on 16 February 2010. Tags: C.L.R.James, Caribbean Artists movement, Caribbean Education and Community Workers Association', Caribbean poets, Derek Walcott, Third World books, Trinidad, West Indian Independence Party, black Poets, black writers, he Black Parents movement

John La Rose is a political and Cultural activist. He came to Britain from Trinidad where he had been working as General Secretary to the West Indian Independence Party.
John La Rose is a political and Cultural activist. He came to Britain from Trinidad where he had been working as General Secretary to the West Indian ...
Posted in Black Britain, Caribbean History
Posted on 08 January 2010. Tags: Ben Okri, Booker Prize, Flowers and Shadows, Guardian Fiction Prize, OBE, Royal National Theatre, black writers, nigerian

Ben Okri O.B.E. is a Booker Prize winning Author and Poet.
Okri was awarded the Booker Prize for Fiction for his novel The Famished Road (1991). Set in a Nigerian village <p>Ben Okri was Born in Nigeria in 1959. He is a journalist and writer by trade.
He traveled to Britain when he was just four years ...
Posted in African History, Black Britain, Black People in Europe
Posted on 18 March 2009. Tags: Literature, Poetry, Police, SUS laws, Stop and Search, black writers, raymondobe, short stories, writers, writing

Same old Same old
The Streets are always watching.
That night,as I lay on my bed listening to the dogs bark,
I began to wonder how much more I could take, and I began to get a terrible feeling inside my chest and a tightness at the back of my throat, and I jerked upright with my head spinning and stared into the ...
Posted in African History, Black Britain, Black People in Europe