“Sometimes I cannot bear the pressure from back home to send money,” David Lee says. His story is typical David Lee is a high street accountant in south London. He came from a poor region of Malaysia 30 years ago and has always sent money home to help relatives. But he is now hit with…
As we approach the summer holidays many families are considering having their daughters circumcised. This time of year is considered the best time as it can take up to six weeks for girls to heal. Many consider that circumcising their daughters is a rite of passage to womanhood that ensures that they are marriageable. But…
The black presence in England dates back at least 2000 years to the Roman invasion of Britain. Africans in Rome and subjects of the North African colonies were present at every level of society, as evidenced by the Libyan-born Emperor Septimus Severus who died in York in 211 AD More than a thousand years later…
Three quarters of the way through the Royal Shakespeare Company’s (RSC) London Roundhouse Season actor Noma Dumezweni can relax for a bit. Appearing in three of the Company’s six productions the Swaziland born, Suffolk-raised actor is excited about the next phase of the Season’s tour back at the RSC’s reconstructed and soon to be relaunched…
The Daily Express is keeping up with its reputation of almost lampooning migrants as a sport. The latest onslaught came this week after the Office for National Statistics (ONS) released some figures that showed a steady increase in unemployment. The figures also reveal that people aged between 16 and 24 are especially affected by the…
UNIYFPAD:Past A rainy day on a disused railway platform outside Manchester is not the sort of place you expect to see one of the most influential performers in rock ‘n’ roll history strutting their stuff. You might not think that the artist in question would be a 49-year-old African-American gospel singer from Arkansas either. This…
“If I get stressed I die quicker, and I’m not prepared to do that.” Multiple Sclerosis (MS) sufferer Lisa Alabaksh, a former head teacher living in North London says this is exactly how she feels about living with MS. She was diagnosed with MS in February 2004 at the age of 35, when her symptoms…