Yearly Archives: 2014
Leone Stars shine with purpose
When Johnny McKinstry was announced as the interim coach of Sierra Leone in April last year, it was a remarkable appointment. Not only had McKinstry's...
Made in Nigeria: Bino and Fino, An African Kids’ Cartoon Making Waves Across The...
The face of children’s entertainment is changing with Bino and Fino, a ground-breaking cartoon which is now in its second season. By celebrating the...
RSC casts first black Iago, in ‘crazy’ Othello production
British-Tanzanian actor Lucian Msamati is set to play Iago, Othello’s antagonist, in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production next year.
The play, which will be directed...
Tunji Akintokun named as finalists in the Black British Business Awards’ STEM category
Tunji Akintokun, Director at Cisco and Founder/Co-Director of social enterprise Your Future Your Ambition (YFYA) has been named as a finalist for the Black...
British Ebola victim released from hospital
Britain’s first Ebola victim has been released from hospital following treatment at a London hospital.
29-year-old William Pooley, who contracted the deadly infectious disease while...
Special coin to remember Britain’s first black army officer
World War I hero Walter Tull, the first British army officer of Afro Caribbean descent, will be commemorated on one of six £5 coins...
Death for doctor who raped patient and pushed her to her death
A court in Sri Lanka has sentenced a doctor accused of the rape and murder of a factory worker in 2007 to death.
In addition...
Girl who defended father found dead on railway
Police have arrested three men over the suspected rape and murder of a teenager who had protested against village elders' harassment of her father...
School claims battered tot did this to herself
Friends and family of the mother of a mixed-race year one school pupil have initiated a Facebook campaign to seek justice for her daughter...
Dionne wishin’ and hopin’ for another hit album
Singing legend Dionne Warwick, who has famously been an outspoken critic of present-day artists, is about to release an album of duets and collaborations...
