A year ago the country was gripped by election fever. Live debates between the three main parties were hitting television screens for the first time, giving voters a better chance to decide their favourite. The subsequent hung parliament result led to much posturing, with the Liberal Democrats being wooed by both Labour and the Conservatives….
Recent reports in the media have indicated that there are a growing number of African people returning to their motherland from Europe because of high levels of job insecurity. Common convention especially within some right-wing migration discourses; often describe the African bit of the South-North travel as an economic experience inspired by a one-way ticket…
People with Voices is two year’s old today and the anniversary of its launch offers a perfect opportunity to reflect on its role in support of a truly democratized media. Studies in recent years have shown that people from working class backgrounds account for just 3 per cent of UK journalists and minority groups 4…
Women who have become mothers through adoption and fostering are unsung heroines who should be acknowledged during the yearly
Nigger for Life is an insightful anthology of poems that both document and articulate Hall’s experience as a black man in the U.S and in an uncompromising and unapologetic style of delivery, asserts that you cannot escape the confines of race, hence the title of the book. When I first glanced at the book’s cover…
The curtain has fallen on Hollywood’s annual love-fest – the Oscars and we can all brace ourselves for a new year of films. Or that’s what we thought. 2011 mainstream cinema is going to see a record number of sequels, prequels and spin-offs of already existing film franchises. Some of the highly anticipated titles this…
Many books have clever strap-lines, usually claiming their contents will either change your life or be the best thing you will read this year. Often this