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Contents African History Season

Dear Readers, Welcome to another exciting edition of Mojatu Magazine, Nottingham Connected. The increase in size of this edition with 36 pages shows that we have so much to report on and more achievements to celebrate in our diverse communities around Nottingham.

It is that time of year when we make a public stance to affirm and reflect on where we have come from and where we are going to. To celebrate African History Season, we share the achievements and the stories of our past, present and future. The thought provoking article on the Death of Black History Month (p.12) explores the reasoning and issues of these celebrations.

The Black Achieving Men’s Award 2013 was the wow event of the season. Witnessing talented, handsome, washed and suited men of colour was a pleasure to experience. Congratulations to all!

Professor Cecile Wright’s report on BME Policing in Nottingham (Mojatu Issue M009) igniting a debate and response for greater participation of BME citizens to join the police force. For better understanding of life on the Beat, read our interviews with Nottinghamshire BME Police Officers.

We share the story of a very special religious leader in Nottingham, Reverend Canon Eve Pitts, the first black female to be ordinated in the Church of England.

The season also saw ‘stewers and barbequers’ from all over Africa coming together and celebrating their presence in Nottingham. Gambians, Ghanaians, Kenyans and Nigerians, among others, had their community parties and also participated in the hugely successful African Men and Youth Football Tournament. Enjoy the great photos and read the captivating stories in this issue of Mojatu.

Baraka (Kiswahili for ‘blessing’) Kind regards, Norma Gregory, Editor City & Guilds (Journalism), B.A (English), PGCE (English), M.A (Education)

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Interview with Pitman Browne George Africanus 250th Birthday!

Nottingham in Past Pictures It’s My Story: George Powe Julius Garvey, Son of Jamaican National Hero

BME Nursing Advisory Group The Death of Black History Month

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News Hate Crime - Communities in Control Surviving Winter Appeal

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Community Ghanaians Unite in Nottingham Nigeria’s Igbo Festival (Iriji) Black Achieving Men Awards 2013 Summer Weekend Football Tournament

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Faith & Spirituality Diva Divine: Reverend Canon Eve Pitts

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Arts & Culture Caribbean Through a Lens Lord Boateng Backs Ghana’s Film Identity and our Common Culture

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Health Using Media to Make a Difference in Africa National HIV Testing Week

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Business Mojatu Magazine Launch in Reading

Bookkeeping Tips for Small Businesses

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Education Interviews with BME Police Officers in Notts Write Right! Capital Letters

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Photographer: Ioney Smallhorne (Nottingham Black Archives)

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Inklings of a Genius: Exclusive Interview with Pitman Browne

by Norma Gregory

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itman Browne requested that our interview could take place at Kai Dase Violins along Mansfield Road Nottingham, purely for the smell of varnished, maple wood and the sight of beautiful handmade violins.

Wearing a black full length coat, suit, red shirt and black cap, Pitman was highly alert and ready to share his great talents in producing unique literature, music and videos. He emphasised how these surroundings helped him relax and gain oneness with self and the artistic environment making his otherwise seemingly nervous nature on the outside quiet, calm and confident in the inside.

He has been a cornerstone of the African Caribbean community in Nottingham since his arrival from Kingston, Jamaica in September 1962, aged 17. Over the last fifty years, Pitman has been a huge contributor to the arts scene in Nottingham and beyond. As a pioneer of community development through arts, the City of Nottingham and its residents have lots to be proud of primarily due to Pitman’s efforts.

At 68, Pitman has many strings on his artistic bow. He is an established author having published five books and being an active mentor for emerging writers. He is an exciting writer and performance poet and an accomplished interviewer and videographer. He has over 75 videos on YouTube and counting. He is a composer of exceptionally unique, classical music and a professional pianist.

Pitman Brown: over 50 years of artistic output

“All I was told about England at school was the existence of the BBC symphony orchestra and Elvis Presley,” said Pitman with a sardonic sense of humour.

He recalls his, ‘polkadot experience’ living in various parishes in Jamaica and with what he calls, “a mixture of the good, the bad and the ugly”.

“When I arrived in England I felt cheated because of the weather and living conditions. So I enrolled at Clarendon College and studied music and worked at Bairnswear knitwear factory in Basford. There was unemployment in the black community but there was always the chance of quickly getting another job – unlike now,” states Pitman in his vocally poetic narrative, a mirror of his unique writing style.

“I remember the times when I used to sit round firesides of various West Indian homes asking questions about the 1958 Nottingham riots. This is the subject of my book titled Children Get Out of the Ghetto Mentality, selfpublished in 2000. This book was written to question and to explore youth subculture.”

CHROMA Black Writers’ Club 1983-1986 The first publication for African Caribbean writers in Nottingham.

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Nottingham connected “There has been a terrible division in our culture.

The broken relationships and marriages, the intake of banned substances, coupled with extreme entertainment and the desire for quick money.

Where are the massive seizures of drugs collated from drug dealers by the police? My book asks these questions,” says by Pitman with no fear in his being but the genuine desire to dig deep for answers.

He is a man not afraid to venture into subjects many with stable careers and almost at the top rung of the career ladder would probably stay well clear of. “My first book, Inklings

of a Black Christ published in 1998 by Kitabu-Pet Publications, explores the premise that Jesus and the apostles were African men. This book examines scholarly research findings on this hidden belief and attempts to turn around misconceptions to their true order,” says Pitman with enigmatic passion.

Francis Mae Mountgomery, mother of Pitman (left), Pitman Browne aged 12 (right) in rural Jamaica.

West Indian Students’ Association (WISA) Nottingham active,1967-1970. Pitman was president of WISA in 1968.

20-year-old Pitman, (left) newly elected President of the Nottingham West Indian Students Association in 1968.

Reflecting on his life and his future, Pitman concludes the interview by with reference to his autobiography titled, What Is My Mission? (2005) his last (but not final) book, which shares his personal feelings and details of his private life, “girls – a part of life I can’t reach so I leave it alone,” says Pitman with a smile.

Pitman’s books: •• Inklings of a Black Christ (1998) •• Wishing Can Be Dangerous (1999) •• Children Get Out of the Ghetto Mentality (2000) •• Community Writing (2003) •• What is My Mission? (2005) To order books or contact Pitman, visit: http://kitabu-pet.com

Pleasure in the verse: Norma and Pitman

Thanks to Kai Dase Violins for permission to host this interview at their premises: Kai Dase Violins, 43 Mansfield Rd, Nottingham, NG1 3FB T: 0115 958 7663 www.kaidaseviolins.com

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George Africanus 250th Birthday!

This year marks the 250th birthday of the first African entrepreneur who found success in 19th century Nottingham.

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Map of his property

Plaque in honour of George Africanus

eorge Africanus, whose proper African name is unknown, was born in in Sierra Leone, West Africa in 1763. He was brought to England, aged 3 to work as a servant for Benjamin Molineux of Wolverhampton.

After gaining his freedom, George moved from Wolverhampton to Nottingham in 1784 finding work as a labourer and a ‘brass founder’. He established a recruitment agency called ‘The Africanus Register of Servants, where he recruited Africans in the service sector.

George married Esther Shaw in August, 1788 with the ceremony registered at St Peter’s Church, Nottingham.

They lived at 28 Chandler’s Lane, now Victoria Street, in Nottingham’s city centre and had seven children.

In 1829, George bought the properties he had previously rented along Chandler’s Lane and Blucher’s Yard. He had them redesigned and rented them out as three houses.

He also worked as a volunteer Yeoman (policeman) called ‘Watch and Ward’ .

George died aged 71 and was buried on the 25th May 1834 in St Mary’s Churchyard, Nottingham.

In April 2003, Nottingham City Council dedicated a ‘Green Plaque’ in his honour. A new tombstone was blessed in a special ceremony on the 25th March 2007, permanently marking George’s existence in Nottingham’s history.

Gravestone St Mary’s Church, Nottingham

George Africanus’s signature

Marriage certificate at St Peter’s Church, Nottingham

* Chandler’s Lane now Victoria St, Nottingham

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1. Jamaica, 1940

A family in their backyard. Behind them there is a wooden kitchen away from the main house. The toilet would have been a small shed nearby.

Domesticated animals running around, part of everyday life.

2. Nottingham, 1959

Group of Jamaicans on the way to listen the pastor preach at church.

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3. Nottingham, 1968

A living area/bedroom with everything in it. Immigrants from Jamaica and other countries shared the house, including the kitchen and bathroom.

4. Nottingham, 1972

Children’s group photo by Jamaican photographer ‘Mr Brown’ from the 1970s. Many families asked him to visit their house each year to take photos.

5. Nottingham, 1975

Christmas time in the Hyson Green Flats, Radford, Nottingham.

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School group photo of three sisters.

Best clothes are worn and hair is combed!

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Flyers of local black businesses, 1970s

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It’s My Story: George Powe (1926-2013)

Ex-serviceman, politician, industrial activist and race relations pioneer in Nottingham.

Mr Oswald George Powe passed away on the 9th September 2013 aged 87. He was a Royal Air Force ex-serviceman and dedicated community activist in Nottingham for 70 years.

In addition to being a founder member of ACNA, the Caribbean cultural centre in Nottingham, George also pioneered improvement in race relations in the city working with the likes of George Leigh, Milton Crosdale and Junior ‘Berranga’ Forbes among others.

In July 2012, Norma Gregory interviewed George at his home in Mapperley, Nottingham. Here is George’s story in his own words.

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was born on the 11th August 1926 in, Kingston Jamaica and I come from a Chinese and African heritage. I was seventeen years old when I came to England in the later part of 1943 therefore; I have been in the England for 70 years.

I left high school in January 1943 and joined the Air Force in Jamaica. We were taught the history of the British Empire and about English culture in school in Jamaica. We were taught to view England in the context of our education system.

There were adverts and posters for men to join the armed forces so I applied. A lot of young people wanted to fight for their ‘mother country’ but in my opinion, this did not detract from the notion that people knew they were being oppressed. This, I believe, is one of the contradictions created through colonialism. A Jamaican called Roger May published articles in Jamaica in the 1940s, advising Jamaicans not to join the British armed forces. He was arrested for sedition because of his beliefs.

- A Soldier’s Life I came to England on a troopship called The Arbiter. The troopship was converted to carry a maximum amount of troops and was fitted with sling hammocks which we had to pull down in the morning into ‘mess decks’.

Each compartment had six hammocks and some table facilities. Sometimes we ran short of food on the journey.

Everything was not always simple and comfortable as sometimes the ship had to quickly move away and change course to avoid being entangled in submarine nets, which could be dangerous for the crew and the ship.

The ship sailed from Jamaica to America, Iceland and then on to England. The journey lasted seventeen days from America to England. In the military during war time, we were not told anything about our route or the journey. I just brought my issued gun and myself. I carried no suitcase. We were not allowed to wear civilian clothing: only clothing what was issued to us. It was not until 1948 that particular civilian items were allowed. I wore a pair of black, thick rubber soled shoes and these shoes lasted five years.

I was stationed in Kent and earned six shillings then I was moved to a military camp in Yorkshire. We were taught to use firearms and we also learnt a trade.

The Armed Forces never gave you a complete course in a profession. They trained four people to do parts of the work required for one person as our primary role was to learn to fight and defend the country. I trained as a Wireless Operator for radars.

I was also stationed in Cornwall and then was moved to north Devon. The crowds would come out to see these “blackies”. There were places you could not go if you were black. People called you names in the street and you had to fight them. I left the RAF in 1948.

- Class Difference The trade unions fought for our benefit; for better facilities to improve industrial relations. It was not just our struggle alone but a general struggle of the working classes to bring about fairer education and access to education for all through equal opportunity. When I was a child in Jamaica there was also prejudice there, the same as here.

However, in England, it was not just colour prejudice, but prejudices based on class, ethnicity and religion. Catholics used to have lots of problems but not as bad as how the Muslims were treated. It was not until the Race Relations Act of 1965 did I see some change in how people were treated.

People used to call you all sorts of names and the only thing you could do was to fight them. There seemed no point trying to take people who racially abused you to court. You had to just take it. Ironically, the first person to be convicted under the Race Relations Act of 1965 was a Caribbean person called Lee Fritas, a Trinidadian. He was convicted of abusing white society and sentenced to three months in prison.

In the early days of migration to Britain there were ‘wars’ between the different Caribbean groups: the Bajans (people from Barbados), the Trinidadians, people from St Kitts and so on. There seemed to be a divide and rule policy. We had to fight all of that. It was not just a fight against a white society but conflicts within different community groups.”

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A History of the Afro-Caribbean Nationals Artistic Centre (ACNA) ACNA is a registered company. It is not a sole ownership.

The name for ACNA came about through Louis Morgan as he wanted a centre to house ‘coconut’ art (art produced using the shell of coconut). He had the idea that we (Jamaicans) could set up a centre for artwork. That is how the name came about. The people who formed ACNA formed it for semipolitical reasons and not for personal profit. The founders were myself, George Leigh, Louis Morgan, Milton Crosdale and Junior Forbes. ACNA was set up to fight racism, to fight industrial inequality and all the bad things that affected our community.

ACNA was first housed in the old Bluecoat School off Mansfield Road, Nottingham. When the school was going to be closed down, the Council did not know what to do with it, so there was a suggestion that it should be set up as an International Community Centre so members of the community could rent rooms and carry out social activities.

Dorothy Wood professed an interest in bringing about equality for coloured people or everybody who was not white. Dorothy asked Milton Crosdale to call a meeting to invite black organisations to find out how best to utilise the International Community Centre. At this time, it was very difficult for any non-white groups to get a room to rent to carry out social activities (ironically, it was just as difficult to get a room to live in). At the time, the Black Power Movement was in vogue in 1960s America and it also seemed to influence black culture and politics in England. At this time, we also had the Afro-Caribbean Union (the West Indian Union). Surprisingly, there were many black organisations in Nottingham and across the UK.

ACNA Centre, Nottingham

At first, we rented premises on Derby Road in 1972 and set up a Trust in 1973. We wanted to build our own community building but when we calculated the cost, it was about £30,000. When we decided to get premises, we could not.

We looked around for premises and later discovered to our merriment, on Hungerhill Road, a school building (the former Sycamore Primary School) closed down and dilapidated.

The Bridge Trust passed the school over to Nottingham City Council as nobody wanted it and thus the council acted as caretaker of the building, as it was often being vandalised.

Urban Aid, a European funding initiative, was created in 1975/1976 and became an important opportunity for inner city communities to apply for grants. I think the UK received about £90 million. ACNA was then floated as a limited company. We then applied for and received a grant, which was supposed to be spent by 1977. However, we could not find suitable premises so we asked for a dispensation to allow us an extra year to spend the grant.

The rent for the old Sycamore Primary School building was set at £20,000 per year and we had no experience of running or managing a large organisation. The building was leased by the council to ACNA for fifty years. We received a grant of £60,000. However, the grant was not enough to refurbish the premises because of the extent of the vandalism. The city council believed we could not fix the building (but we did) and only contributed 26% of the grant.

ACNA members have recently thought about buying the building through the committee but this decision has never been followed through. I resigned from the ACNA committee but was recently co-opted back in (in 2012). I have done over forty year’s work supporting and helping to manage ACNA. ACNA now needs organisation and effective financial leadership for the future.

This article is an excerpt from ‘Voices and Reflections of Jamaicans in Nottingham: Arrival & Achievement’

by Norma Gregory to be published spring 2014.

ACNA Centre (from the left) Arnold Wright, Merlita Bryan, Professor Cecile Wright and George Powe, July 2012

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African History Season

Julius Garvey, Son of Jamaican National Hero, visits Nottingham The event was organized by the Jamaican High Commission with the help of Desmond Jaddoo, a Birmingham based community activist who believed that the opportunity to see and hear the opinions of a living offspring of Garvey was not to be missed.

Julius Garvey spoke of the potential of the African people manifested in music, religion, sport, science and literature. He spoke about his father’s ability to challenge ideology and to make the changes that he did.

Garvey stated: Julius Garvey at Nottingham Council House (from left) Jacqueline Lockhart, Dr Julius Garvey, Linda Wright and Leslie Ayoola

Dr Julius Mosiah Garvey’s visit to Nottingham, on Friday 4th October 2013, was a triumphant occasion for hundreds of people in Nottingham to witness the presence of the son of the late Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey (1887-1940), the Jamaican orator, business man, writer and Pan-Africanist.

Garvey, aged 80, a New York based vascular surgeon, made a five day tour of the UK visiting Birmingham, London, Manchester and Nottingham.

Welcomed with honours by the Lord Mayor of Nottingham, Councillor Merlita Bryan, Garvey had a Caribbean lunch with local community leaders and politicians at the Council House. He met Caribbean elders at the Marcus Garvey Centre, before moving on to Nottingham Trent University to speak at the Students’ Union.

His final stop was made to the Afro Caribbean Nationals Artistic Centre (ACNA) where he was greeted with a drum call and a rapturous applause from over 200 hundred people from the Nottingham’s Caribbean community.

“Those who have fought for our liberation and opened the doors, some of those have passed on. Some of us are not exercising the freedoms we have. We have not found our voice or thought about others who have not gone through.

We cannot simply go through the doors and join the system that exists. Create your own system.”

“We cannot replace nature with technology as we have come out of nature. What has formed us is the creative elements of the universe, a representation of what some of us called God.” “We are destroying our homes and then we are saying we are homeless. It doesn’t make sense.”

Garvey concluded the evening at ACNA by answering questions from the audience concerning African participation in the Commonwealth, how Garveyism ideology can relate to young Africans and his earliest memories of his father.

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BME Nursing Advisory Group call for Equality and ‘Cultures of Compassion’ Mary Seacole (1805-1881)

Over 250 senior nurses, professors of nursing and senior nursing school leaders, attended the Chief Nursing Officer’s Black and Minority Ethnic Advisory Group 5th Annual Conference. This year the event was hosted at the East Midland Conference Centre by Nottingham University, School of Health Sciences on the 11th October 2013.

Senior BME nursing practitioners took time to share issues surrounding equality, inclusion and concerns regarding lack of opportunities in promotion and career progression in the NHS. They called for a, ‘refocus on care and compassion’ from across the whole of the healthcare profession and expressed their passion and duty towards patient care, a key factor keeping them in their posts.

Felicia Kwaku, Director of Nursing at Clementine Churchill Hospital; Professor Laura Serrant-Green, Associate Dean at Wolverhampton University; Joan Myers OBE Chair, Chief Nursing Officer’s BME Advisory Group and nursing students

Q & A Panel

Hannah Burt and Sukdeep Dhadda shared their stories and matters affecting BME service users, carers , nursing staff and students.

The event paid tribute to Mary Seacole (1805-1881), the Jamaican nurse and national hero who nursed soldiers of all nationalities during the Crimea War. Dr Corry Staring-Derks and Dr Jeroen Derks, Dutch scholars currently researching and collecting artefacts from Mary Seacole’s life, presented a letter

by Mary Seacole.

The conference was opened by the Lord Mayor of Nottingham, Councillor Merlita Bryan. In her speech, the Lord Mayor praised the dedication of the nurses and thanked them for their efforts to make a difference to millions of people’s lives across the country.

The evening ended with the Mary Seacole Gala Dinner and Dance in aid of the Mary Seacole Statue Appeal.

Email cnobmeadvisory@nottingham.ac.uk to donate towards the Mary Seacole Statue Appeal.

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African History Season

by Paul Ifayomi Grant It’s November and Black History Month has come and gone with a whimper. The celebrations and activities within the Black History Month vividly showed the death of Black History Month in the UK. I say death, but perhaps critically ill or comatose would be a more accurate assessment of the condition of this cultural phenomenon.

What does this tells us about the mentality of African (Black) people in the UK and perhaps further afield.

Black History Month (BHM) idea was misconceived from conception in the UK, starting from its celebration in October unlike in many other countries, including USA, where it is celebrated in February. BHM is supposedly a tool for Africans to (re)connect with their global history; and yet from the very outset there was a failure to consider and co-ordinate with other Africans around the globe who had already instituted BHM. This failure can perhaps be attributed to ignorance, parochialism or the control of non-African funders.

There was steady decline in BHM events in the UK over the last number of years. However, this was accentuated around 2007 at the beginning of the current economic depression which has devastated many lives world over. The main problem with BHM in the UK is that its creation and funding was in complete contradiction to the principles and values it was meant to promote.

BHM became dependent upon funding from the politically led local authorities, mainly Labour before the Conservative joined in. We hence had a people who were seeking to reclaim their history and culture for the purpose of exercising self-deterministic power in the world, going cap in hand (note where the derogatory word ‘handicapped’ comes from) for the money to teach their community how to become empowered!

“History shows that it does not matter who is in power…. those who have not learned to do for themselves and have to depend solely on others never obtain any more rights or privileges in the end than they had in the beginning.” Dr Carter G Woodson ‘The MisEducation of the Negro’ (1933)

Racial caste system The above quote from Carter G Woodson the progenitor of what we now call Black History Month / African History Month / African History Season gets right to the nub of why he created Black People’s History Week (which developed into Black History Month) in 1926 and the purpose it was meant to serve. The (re)learning, remembrance and celebration of African History was meant to be purposive and that purpose was to assist in moving the sons and daughters of Africa from their then (and now) position of oppression under an invidious racial caste system, to a position of power, self-

sufficiency and dignity.

The main thrust was internal, meaning to empower Africans through self-knowledge to rise up and not external, meaning seeking the approval of people from other communities.

There is an Afrikan proverb, ‘Once you conquer the enemy within, the enemy without can do you no harm.’ And Dr Woodson realised how pervasive the sense of inferiority and self-hatred had become amongst his people in the US and indeed across the world.

In his landmark work he notes: “In this effort to imitate, however, these “educated people” are sincere. They hope to make the Black People conform quickly to the standard of the whites and thus remove the pretext for the barriers between the races. They do not realize, however, that even if the Black People do successfully imitate the whites, nothing new has thereby been accomplished. You therefore have a larger number of people doing what others have been doing. The unusual gifts of the race have not thereby been developed, and an unwilling world, therefore continues to wonder, what the Black Person is good for.” (Woodson 1933: 7)

External approval This obsession with seeking external approval has been a constant theme in the misleadership of Black people. So BHM in the UK was placed upon the auction block right from the beginning and sold to the only bidder, the local authority. We know for certain that ‘he who pays the piper calls the tune’.

It is crystal clear that the funders of BHM had a very different set of goals to those espoused by Carter G Woodson.

As time has passed too many African people have prostituted BHM to appease the funding God. The idea of us actually funding our own cultural celebrations seems anathema. The economic depression has largely moved BHM off the funding agenda in the age of Big Society and volunteerism, that is do it for free or pay for it yourself. So this October has been very quiet on the cultural front.

In Nottingham, people used to ask what’s happening for Black history month, now most don’t even bother. Things got so desperate that a few years ago the City Council started the practice of including any Black person performing in Nottingham in their BHM calendar. I remember seeing an Alesha Dixon concert included. Her concert had absolutely nothing to do with BHM it just so happens she was performing in Nottingham in October!

The economic chickens have really come home to roost. The endemic failure of Africans, particularly AfricanCaribbeans in the UK to practice ‘ethno-aggregation’ or pooling financial resources, has had profound ramifications, of which the death of BHM is just a minor casualty. The

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values and behaviours required to have independently institutionalised BHM in African communities across Britain are the values and behaviours required to have created a solid economic foundation in those same communities.

The failure to achieve the latter ensured the failure to do the former. The deceased US born psychologist Amos N. Wilson in describing the failure of African-Americans to understand the power of history said the following: “Therefore, think again when we celebrate Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, King, and others. We should begin to look at the central issues. If our study of Black history is merely an exercise in feeling good about ourselves, then we will die feeling good. We must look at the lessons that history teaches us. We must understand the tremendous value of the study of history for the re-gaining of power. If our education is not about gaining real power, we are being miseducated and misled and will die “educated” and misled…..”

“The study of history cannot be a mere celebration of those who struggled on our behalf. We must be instructed by history and should transform history into concrete reality, into planning and development, into the construction of power and the ability to ensure our survival as a people. If not, BHM becomes an exercise in the inflation of egos; it becomes an exercise that cuts us further off from reality.... So let us make sure that we look at and study history in a light that it advances our interests, not inflates our egos and blinds us to reality.”

Define your own history So there we have it, or as Jamaicans say, ‘see it deh’. It is a truism that ‘s/he who pays the piper calls the tune’ and the reason it is called a truism is because it is true. So, rest in peace BHM, your guardians did not value you and left you to die of neglect.

Paraphrasing Shakespeare, Asa Hilliard said that, ‘To be African or not to be African, that is the question’. Until a

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significant number of people of African descent (whether born in Africa or not) can answer that question in a constructive, affirmative manner it does not matter how many individual achievers we produce, a powerless people we will remain.

I have just finished reading the book ‘Forty Million Dollar Slaves - The Rise, Fall and Redemption of the Black Athlete’

by William C. Rhoden, which I would highly recommend; and the recurring theme throughout this book is that it does not matter how many highly paid superstar athletes we have produced, without group co-operation, loyalty and a sense of collective mission they remain powerless multi-millionaires dependent upon their billionaire owners.

Every day we make African history, for better or worse, so the death of BHM is an opportunity to free the history of African people from a 31 day (or 28 day) prison and liberate it to occupy the highlands and lowlands of July, January, March etc.! Far better if we commemorated our history marked by special days throughout the year in a constant reinforcement of our identity and culture. So let’s make every day African History Day. Professor Wade Nobles says that, “Power is the ability to define reality and have other people respond to your definition as if it were their own” so the question is who is defining your reality? * Some quotes have had terminologies updated to reflect the nature of modern day language and its usage

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News

Hate Crime

Communities in Control

by Michael Henry

The project is designed to raise awareness and develop a hate crime reporting network through voluntary sector organisations. Hate crime is any criminal offence committed against a person or property that is motivated by an offender’s hatred of someone because of their ethnic origin, religion, gender (or gender identity), sexual orientation or disability.

Michael Henry, Director of Communities Inc. explains, ‘When someone becomes a victim of hate crime they are more likely to already have a connection with voluntary sector organisations and therefore have greater confidence in reporting the incident to them. We need to make it easier for people to find appropriate support.

Communities Inc has been awarded a grant from the Nottingham Police & Crime Commissioner’s Office to run a project called ‘Hate Crime, Communities in Control’.

The project includes: •• Training for up to 20 local organisations in how to record and report hate crime & promote community cohesion.

•• The production of a hate crime reporting manual to be used by 20 local organisations including frontline (mainstream and specialist) third sector organisations, religious groups & public agencies.

•• Creation of a unique and highly recognisable logo/ brand to be displayed at organisations taking part in this initiative.

•• An end of project conference to disseminate the manual and provide learning from the project to a wide range of stakeholders.

For details of how to take part in the project please call communities Inc. on 0115 9101469 or email them on admin@ communitiesinc.org.uk or visit www.communitiesinc.org.uk.

Surviving Winter Appeal Over 450 vulnerable people died in Nottinghamshire last winter from causes directly attributable to the cold. Not only do we have more than 500 homeless people in the county, but many hundreds more vulnerable and elderly people live in very poor conditions worsened by the cold weather.

It is shocking, in the 21st century, that so many people in our society struggle to stay warm and healthy during the coldest weather. Recent rises in energy prices means more people than ever face considerable hardship this winter.

Nottinghamshire Community Foundation is calling on all who can afford to forego some or all of their Winter Fuel Payment (WFP), to make a donation to help those who need extra help during the difficult months ahead.

100% of your donation will be used to support local charities and groups with a track record of looking after the old, the vulnerable and the homeless.

Please help us to help some of the most vulnerable people in our community, show them that you care this winter!

Show your support before another vulnerable person becomes a statistic.

To donate go to http://goo.gl/nqHh7S or scan this QR code:

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by Jacob Opoku Ghanaians in Nottingham have established the Ghana Union Nottingham. It was inaugurated on 26th August 2013 at Old Basford Community Centre. Over one hundred Ghanaian families attended the event and enjoyed a sizzling barbeque, Afrobeat music and children’s activities.

Kobi Fabian, the President of Ghana Union Nottingham stated that, “the aim of the organisation is to unite the Ghanaian community in Nottingham and to support each other in times of need.”

This association was formed out of the recognition that many Ghanaians in the county hardly meet and interact with each other.

“We hardly know each other and we lack the knowledge of each other’s skills and how we can help ourselves as a group. We believe in coming together to form a strong force capable of addressing matters affecting Ghanaians as individuals and as a people in Nottinghamshire.

By working together, we are able to support our young people while supporting each other in sharing skills and knowledge and in sharing understanding of existing opportunities in the UK and back home,” said Mr Opoku.

“We currently have over 100 registered members although we believe there are over 500 Ghanaians in Nottingham. We want to increase numbers in membership and carry out a professional skills audit to find out what skill and specialism individuals have, to be able to help each other effectively,” adds Samuel Quartey, Vice President.

Samuel explained, “The main challenges for the Ghanaian community are integration into British society, knowing where to find information and how to start businesses. We are finding that more Ghanaians are coming to Nottingham from Europe.

Helping families find appropriate accommodation, employment and places for their children in schools are our main concerns. Also, we are working closely with other African communities in Nottingham namely, the ACN, Botswana, Somalia, Kenya, South Africa, Gambia, Zimbabwe groups as well as the Caribbean communities to share resources and information.”

“We will host a Gala Dinner and Dance on 28th December 2013 to fundraise and we have plans for Ghanaian cultural activities to educate Ghanaian youngsters born in the UK, to ensure they learn about their African heritage,” says Bernard Kojo Ashemond, elected Treasurer.

For memberships and tickets contact the Secretary on 07832408348 or Soul Food Store, 101 Alfreton Rd Nottingham NG7 3JL Tel: 07450211372 All Hair and Beauty Salon 07553 518522, Achievers Hair and Beauty Salon, Accra Central Market or all other Ghanaian shops in Nottingham. *Jacob Opoku is a founder member of Ghana Community Nottinghamshire and proprietor of Insite Radio.

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Nigeria’s Igbo Union Nottingham Celebrates Yam Festival (Iriji) Over 300 Igbo people from Nigeria based in Nottingham celebrated the Iriji

Some notable Igbo’s include:

(Yam Festival) at the Hyson Green Youth Club on 21 August 2013.

The celebrations began with a formal blessing and thanksgiving for the Igbo culture and for all Nigerians living in the UK. The Sheriff of Nottingham, Councillor Ian Malcolm and guests, witnessed the custom of the ‘breaking of the Kola nut’

Olaudah Equiano (writer) Chinua Achebe (writer) Chiwetel Ejiofor (actor) Forest Whitaker (actor) ‘The Last King of ‘American Gangster” and ‘The Interesting Narrative of ‘Things Fall Apart’ Scotland’ “12 Years a Slave’ the Life of Olaudah Equiano’

Lemar Obika (R&BSinger) ‘The Truth About Love’ ‘Dedicated’ ‘Time to Grow’

a symbol of unity in the different ethnic groups of Southern Eastern Nigeria.

Entertainment featured Nigerian dancers and drumming. Cash donations were placed on the cut yam by Igbo chiefs to propagate spiritual, cultural and financial growth for the Nigerian community.

Igbo Union Nottingham Chairman Mr Ifeanyi G. Okacha stated, “We want our culture to be implemented the way it should be. This is a very important festival in Nigeria. Every Igbo must celebrate this festival. In Nigeria we would have a masquerade and the elders in the community preside over the festivities.”

Igbo Union Nottingham meet at the Hyson Green Youth Club and can be contacted on 07577804467, 07435552450.

IN THE NEXT ISSUE...

Kenyans in Nottingham celebrate Mashujaa Day Kenya Nottingham Welfare Association (KNWA) and other well-wishers came together on 26th October to celebrate Mashujaa Day. Dont miss the next Mojatu Magazine, issue M012 featuring interviews with the KNWA officials, ‘local heroes’ and photos of the Mashujaa Day Event and award ceremony.

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Black Achieving Men Awards 2013 The 2nd Black Achieving Men Awards, on Saturday 28th October 2013, was a resounding success with over 250 guests in attendance. The red carpet and black tie event was held at the Marcus Garvey Centre, Lenton, Nottingham to celebrate and recognize the achievements of African Caribbean men’s professional and personal contributions in Nottingham.

The ceremony began with a champagne reception followed by a three course dinner and entertainment from DJ Katz.

Natasha Bryan, event coordinator and director of Tick Tock Mobile Crèche stated: “This was the biggest BAM Awards ever and has encouraged lots of companies to sponsor next year’s event. Many of the winners have contacted me to say how the award has helped them continue their successful endeavours in the community. Next year we hope to have a Black Achieving Women Award or a joint men and women event.”

The raffle raised money for Oscar Nottingham, a charity which aims to improve sickle cell awareness and support for individuals and families.

BAM Awards Winners 2013 1. Life Time Community Contributor Award Winner: Richard Renwick OBE

Sponsored and Judged by One Nottingham

2. Outstanding Father of the Year Winner: Wayne Gorden

Sponsored and Judged by Hope Fostering Services 3. Business Man Winner: Trevor Howell of Miss Will’s Pickles LTD

Sponsored and Judged by Gifted 4 Good

4. Young Male Achiever Award Winner: Dexter Atkinson

Sponsored and Judged by Nottingham City Homes 5. Community Volunteer Award Winner: Ramario Colman - Weeks

Sponsored and Judged by Nottingham CVS 6. Health Award Winner: Andrew Jackman

Sponsored and Judged by Decade of Better Health 7. Cultural, Music & Arts Award Winner: Courtney Rose

Sponsored and Judged by Tuntum Housing Association 8. Sports Man Award Winner: Abdul Nur, athlete

Sponsored and Judged by Milford Scott 9. Most Transformed Life Award Winner: Javon Buckley

Sponsored and Judged by Vanguard Plus

10. Learning, Skills & Employment Award Winner: Charles Nembhard, Presenter

Sponsored and Judged by Enable

Tick Tock Mobile Creche is hosting their annual Christmas Party.

For tickets contact Tic Tock Mobile Creche on: 0115 9780325 | www.ticktochcreche.co.uk

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Summer Weekend

Football Tournament unites Communities The highly entertaining 7-a- side football tournament was held on Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th of August at the Forest Recreation Ground.

Ten teams - Sneinton, Jollof, Cavaliers, Nigeria A, Gambia, Cameroon, Urban, Morocco, Nigeria B and Nottingham Community Football - participated in the tournament. Nigeria B won the Men’s fixture on Saturday while Gambia team won the Sunday’s under 16’s.

The tournament was organised by Nottingham Sports Group (NSG). It aimed to bring communities together and united them through sports and physical recreation. It helped promote local businesses by bringing together different sponsors to support the over 250 participants who attended the event.

We thank our corporate sponsors who included African Social Institute Development and Mojatu for design, marketing and sponsoring the winners’ cups; Sharif Superstore for providing water; Afrocooperative for their cash donation and Berridge Ward and the Renewal Trust for their grant aid and support.

NSG and Mojatu will join hands on 16th November to give Gambia’s under 16’s team the winners Cups. To contact Nottingham Sports Group, call 01159109955 / 0796603384 or email nottinghamsportsgroup@gmail.com.

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Diva Divine:

Reverend Canon Eve Pitts

by Norma Gregory

CHURCH Do you enjoy being a Reverend Canon?

I love being a Reverend. I feel blessed!

I love being able to communicate and use the gifts that God has given to me.

I love people and I love being around people. I am passionate about making a difference in the community, to help to bring good changes.

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everend Canon Eve Pitts is a passionate preacher and pioneer in church history. She is known for her distinctive crewcut hairstyle, her sense of humour, honesty in her sermons as well as her passion for music and the arts.

Norma Gregory met with Reverend Pitts at Reverend Pitts’s mother’s home she cherishes in Nottingham, for Mojatu readers to hear her views on the notion of a future (African) female Archbishop of Canterbury; her thoughts on feminine beauty; keeping healthy and her spiritual walk with God. As the first black woman ordained as a Deacon in the Church of England (C of E) in 1992 and ordained as Reverend Canon Pitts in 1994, now aged 61, Pitts is well-known for her passionate speaking, fearless confidence and unmistakable hairstyle.

Born in May Pen, Jamaica, Reverend Pitts came to Nottingham, aged six. She grew up with love and support from her family and found church leadership her ‘calling’. In 1988, she attended the acclaimed Queen’s Foundation, Birmingham, founded in 1828 and studied ecumenical theological education. She saw this as a preparation for her ministerial life in the C of E. She leads her parish at Holy Trinity Church, Birchfield, Birmingham and conducts many weddings and funerals for the BME community in Nottingham.

You were the first black female ordained by the C of E. How do you feel about this?

It was challenging being the first black ordinate because I had to struggle against the Church turning me into a ‘trophy’. I had to face issues of racism and sexism, which sadly is rampant in the Church and in society today. I think I got through unscathed through my confidence and refusal to countenance it.

“I couldn’t be anything else than what I am!”

What are you views on the possibility of a black, female Archbishop of Canterbury?

I think we need to be in a position where the Church of England has female bishops first! They are still dragging their feet on the subject. I think this a great shame because we have many other things we need to do and should be doing about the world. As an institution, the Church is privileged enough to be in a position to make radical choices about how we cope with the realities of our world and climate in which we live. At times, the Church is too timid. If the Church cannot be courageous enough to ordain women as priests, I do not see how it will have the courage to face ecological issues, economical or

political problems. If the Church is not dealing with smaller issues, how can it respond to the unanswered questions that people ask like, “What is the Church for?”

How would you describe your spiritual walk with God?

Fierce. I don’t find my walk with God easy. I find people who seem to walk through Christianity without difficultly or moments of doubt as bizarre. When the world around us is in such a terrible state, it is very difficult to believe that you can go through a Christian life and not ask, “Where are you God?” I don’t always find being a Christian easy - I make no apology for that. For me, faith doesn’t come easy.

You are known for your sense of humour when preaching. Is humour important?

I didn’t even realise I was funny.

Increasingly, over the years, people say to me, “Why don’t you go on the stage? Well, I am!” I say. The pulpit is a kind of ‘stage’. I inherited my sense of humour and wit from my father. A sense of humour is a great gift to have, especially in my work. It is a survival strategy and it can help to punctuate difficult situations in life.

What would you advocate to the youth of today?

Self respect. I feel somehow that we have lost something and we need to identify it and get it back. I would encourage our young to read more because there is a depth of ignorance that is intolerable, partly to blame by an education system, which has let us down.

What three things would you change in society?

I think society needs to discover a new depth in spirituality. We need quietness and space to think and to rediscover the meaning of community. In society,

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What are your first thoughts in the morning and last thing at night?

First thing in the morning, I start with silence. I sit quietly and don’t speak to anyone to get in touch with my own heart. This sets me up for the day and allows me to ‘hear’ God. Without this quiet devotion in the morning, I find my day can become dysfunctional. I recite Psalms 51 at night.

BEAUTY AND HEALTH You wear your very hair short. What sort of comments have you had about your hairstyle?

I have always worn my hair short. I feel beautiful with my hair short. It is a statement of confidence and who I am as a african woman, how I see myself and my place in the world.

What do you do to maintain good health?

I walk a lot and choose not to drive because I like the idea of my feet touching the earth daily. It is how I pray and connect with God through the physical earth. When I abandoned my car ten years ago, that was a deliberate strategy to help me connect with people. I believe that God creates us for health. I ask God to give me health and in return I will do everything I can to make a difference to the community I serve. That’s the deal!

Are you house-proud?

I like where I live to look good as long as I don’t have to become a slave to my home. I like peaceful environments and I don’t like chaos so my homes in Nottingham and Birmingham, they are orderly I think! If your home environment is chaotic then it is highly likely that your life will be chaotic too.

SPIRITUALITY What is your most treasured possession?

My three children are very precious to me but my most treasured possessions are my books. I love the novels, A Suitable Boy by Vicram Seth, Small Island

by Angela Levy, Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison and any book by Toni Morrison.

When are you happiest?

I am happiest when I am preaching because it is my gift. I love preaching, as I love words, verbal communication and connecting with human beings.

What three things your congregation do not know about you?

My congregation probably don’t know that I am a very good dancer.

As Christians, we feel that we are not allowed to show or admit our sexual nature. I am a very sensual woman and I get annoyed when people want to put me in a box and shut away my sensuality and pretend that I am a one-dimensional human being who is a Christian and nothing more. I am much more that. I am a Christian, yes in all

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its beauty. I love fashion and beautiful clothes. I enjoy reading and writing poetry as well.

What do you think your legacy will be?

I am not sure I will have one as it is not something I think about. However, I hope I leave a legacy of love, as love is transformative.

Do you have a personal motto?

I can - because God says I can!

For weddings, funerals and speeches contact Reverend Canon Eve Pitts at: http://www.holytrinitychurch.co.uk Tel: 0151 334 9815 Email: officeholytrinity@gmail.com

“Do not wait. The time will never be ‘just right’. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.” ― Napoleon Hill

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Caribbean Through a Lens: Reconnecting with the Archives Caribbean through a Lens is a photographic exhibition examining representations of race, culture and identity using archive images of the Caribbean from The National Archives Collection. Interpretations of these images by Caribbean Elders and young people from the local Nottingham area also feature, highlighting the exhibition’s aim of allowing people to reclaim and retell their nation’s history and share personal histories.

Edith Bellot wearing the traditional costume of Dominica, based on French eighteenth century fashion. (1961 The National Archives reference: INF 10/3791)

The photographs, selected by the local intergenerational community group, recognise the lack of personal stories in traditional archives by ensuring the voice of this community is presented alongside archive images. While it is clear that the imagery stimulates nostalgic moments from the past, the exhibition also asks visitors to question how accurately an archive can truly represent a history.

Learning and Community Engagement Co-ordinator, Glenis Williams said the group were more than happy to express their thoughts on what these archive images meant to them.

“The year-long project of engaging with the community and capturing these interpretations aimed to explore the notion of the archive and provided an opportunity for those

communities depicted in the archive to reclaim a voice in the way their histories are told,” she said.

“How we read photographs also plays a vital role in the way we see and make judgements about what is happening and what messages are conveyed. How we interpret a photograph is linked to our personal connections with place and the assumptions we make between the photographer and sitter/subject.”

The National Archive has been working with community groups nationally to showcase thousands of historic photographs of the Caribbean online. Sara Griffiths from The National Archives said that these images, with their colonial perspective, tell only one part of the story.

“Our aim has been to work with partners such as New Arts Exchange and Chase Neighbourhood Centre to use and re-interpret these photographs so that we have a fuller understanding of the stories and voices that make up this very diverse and rich heritage,” she said.

The exhibition runs at the Central Galley, New Art Exchange, 39-41 Gregory Boulevard, Nottingham, NG7 6BE from 24th October to 4th January. For more information, or to organise interviews please contact Communications and Marketing Manager, Emma O’Neill, on emma@nae.org.uk or 0115 924 8630.

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Lord Boateng Backs

Ghana’s Documentary Film Ghana’s greatest living fantasy coffin maker, Paa Joe as previously featured in Mojatu Magazine (Issue M009), is to have his story told in a film documentary, Paa Joe & The Lion. It will feature the story of a talented artist trying to save his business and his name from being buried.

this point. Taking the film to the public and asking for their support is daunting, so to have the endorsement of someone of Lord Boateng’s stature feels amazing”, said Benjamin.

We encourage more people to come forward and get involved with this campaign to support Paa Joe and Ghanian cultural heritage. The film aims to help Paa Joe get himself back on top and secure a legacy for himself and his family.

Paa Joe & The Lion is due to be released in Summer 2014.

Paa Joe: roaring success

This has been made possible by prominent Labour party politician, Lord Paul Boateng, who has joined forces with Artdocs production company to produce this documentary.

Independent filmmaker and the film director Benjamin Wigley is raising funds to finish the documentary on international crowdfunding website Kickstarter. The Kickstarter campaign will offer rewards to all those who support this project financially. This may include a chance to become an Associate Producer of the film.

Benjamin said that the film, “Paa Joe & The Lion is a look at the life of a talented artist and craftsman who has fallen on hard times. It’s an insight into life in Ghana – both the highs and the lows.”

Paa Joe was an early pioneer of the Ghanaian tradition of crafting unusual coffins to celebrate the life of those that have passed on. Paa Joe’s beautiful and extraordinary designs are used in the elaborate funerals.

Lord Boateng who is of mixed Ghanaian and Scottish heritage spent much of his early life in Ghana. He said that Paa Joe’s story deserves to be told.

He noted that, “Paa Joe’s work exemplifies a rich culture in which ancient traditional craftsmanship and modern aspirational or symbolic artefacts combine in the rituals of death to produce individual works of art which demand wider recognition and dissemination. It is right that a cinematic craftsman of Ben Wigley’s stature should have taken up the challenge. I for one am glad to give this exciting venture my support. At last a coffin I can enjoy!”

Benjamin is extremely delighted with the supoport he has gotten from Lord Boateng.

“It has taken a long time and a lot of hard work to reach

Profile: Michael Walker Educator and Filmmaker

For further information and to support the project contact: Anna Griffin +44 (0) 7979 807 316, anna@artdocs.org Artdocs Ltd. Broadway Media Centre, 14-18 Broad Street, Nottingham, NG1 3AL

Name: Michael Walker Age: 57 Born: Manchester, Jamaica Nottingham resident since: 1970 Qualifications: BA Honors in Media Production (Sheffield Hallam University) and a PGCE (NottinghamTrent University) Nickname: Video Man Skills: Qualified lecturer - Specialist in Multimedia Production.

Passion: Filmmaking. He wants everyone to love film and to understand how to abide by the ‘rule of third’ while sharing his contagious enthusiasm for videoing.

Unknown facts: Having destroyed a radio in his childhood in order to discover who was talking inside, he has never stopped in his pursuit of the technical and the creative.

Film credits: Filming the YMCA Century of Youth, Nottingham’s Festival of Words, Sky Television’s extreme sports documentary ‘Motorbike Diaries: Mad in the Med’, a short film ‘Confinement’ and community events such as the annual Nottingham Caribbean Carnival.

For multimedia training and video/film editing for all occasions and activities, contact Michael on 0772 599 4056 or mar55@btinterternet.com

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Identity and our Common Culture Not necessarily in the Right Order is

an audio-video installation that responds to Nottingham’s diverse multicultural demographic, exploring the social significance of ‘carnival’ and ‘festival’ as one of the few public opportunities to celebrate cultural diversity.

Using these observations as a starting point, the work has evolved to become an exploration of what it means to be British in the 21st century.

The work, a New Art Exchange (NAE) commission by artist collective Common Culture - David Campbell, Mark Durden and Ian Brown - is the result of more than a year’s research into the diverse communities and vibrant festivals taking place in NAE’s local area, Hyson Green, home to the largest ethnic minority population in the county and vibrant diaspora communities from Pakistan, India, Africa, Eastern Europe, the Caribbean and the Middle East.

Common Culture artist David Campbell said that during research for the piece - which brings together a number of locally based folk musicians, singers and dancers, suggesting the rehearsal for an enigmatic festival of the future - it became evident that place was inextricably linked to the issue of identity.

“It seemed to us that what underpins all of the manifestation of Carnival, Mela or Goose Fair is a desire to reiterate a sense of place, belonging, social and cultural binding through displays of identification,” he said.

Conscious of their own lack of intimacy with the local area, Common Culture made the strategic decision to find ways of engaging with Nottingham’s traditions of carnival by working with local musicians and performers to explore the wider meaning and function of carnival in contemporary Britain. To this end the work explores the relationship between identity and a sense of place, borrowing conventions from science-fiction (and science-fiction based musical alter-egos) to foreground issues of belonging and exclusion. The work plays with different narrative voices, musical styles and subject positions in order to disrupt familiar assumptions of identification. For example, the piece features a young actor who adopts different voices and subject positions to forge identifications with the viewer in a series of monologues that build up to an argument orchestrated between the same actor, but delivered through three distinct characters and accents.

The work is an important and a poignant reflection on the area and its diverse festivalsthat include: Caribbean Carnival, The Goose Fair, Nottingham Pride, Nottingham Mela and Ishraqah (a festival of Middle Eastern culture). These are all important events, according to Director of Programme’s at NAE Melanie Kidd, to preserve cultural identity.

“Dismantling the imperial view that cultural identity is singular and not fixed, Not Necessarily in the Right Order explores the perspective that Britishness, like all cultures, has always been hybrid and our identity will continue to shift,” she said.

Not Necessarily in the Right Order by Common Culture will be at New Art Exchange from Friday 27 September and run until 12 January.

For more information, or to organise interviews please contact Communications and Marketing Manager, Emma O’Neill, on emma@nae.org.uk or 0115 924 8630.

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Do the African Health and Sex Survey now!

Help improve the lives of Africans in England It only takes 10 minutes and is confidential and anonymous www.AfricanHealthSurvey.com The African Health and Sex Survey is being carried out by Sigma Research at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine.

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DMI Using Media to Make a Difference: Encouraging Healthy Behaviours in Africa D

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evelopment edia nternational (DMI) runs radio and TV campaigns to change behaviours and save lives in developing countries. DMI uses scientific modelling to save the greatest number of lives in the most cost-effective way. It has recently launched ‘Media Million Lives’ (www.mediamillionlives.org), an ambitious initiative to create integrated radio, TV and mobile phone campaigns that will promote key maternal and child health behaviours in ten African countries for five years each, with the objective of saving a million lives.

Why supply-side initiatives are not enough: the service provision is weak. The main requirement is high role of demand creation in developing countries media penetration. In most African countries over 75% of Seven million children die every year of preventable causes before reaching their fifth birthday. We can keep five million of them alive every year by increasing coverage of simple interventions, such as exclusive breastfeeding or handwashing. And we can keep most of that group (over three million children) alive just by improving their parent’s knowledge of basic health issues, and changing their behaviours accordingly.

The major point here is that not enough attention is given to increasing demand in developing countries for health.

Instead, most of the money is spent on increasing supplies – of doctors, hospitals, drugs, and so on. These are all necessary, of course, but it is several hundred times more expensive and slow to scale up supply-side initiatives in poor African countries than to scale up demand-side initiatives.

For example, many rural mothers in Africa cannot recognise when their child has a dangerous illness; even if they can, they do not know what to do about it. The instinctive response when a small child has diarrhoea is to stop feeding it, in order to make the symptoms stop; as a result, over a million children die of dehydration every year, quite unnecessarily.

What are these demand-side initiatives, then?

Increasing demand for health involves creating awareness of key issues and encouraging healthy behaviours (such as breastfeeding) and health-seeking behaviours (such as seeking treatment for malaria). This is done through behaviour change campaigns. These fall into two broad categories: •• Community-level campaigns (using techniques such as street theatre and community mobilisers) •• Mass media campaigns (using a combination of TV, radio, newspapers, billboards and mobile phones) Mass media campaigns can be taken to national scale rapidly and relatively cheaply, even in countries where healthcare

people regularly listen to radio or watch television, and these numbers are increasing every year. It is possible to reach a target audience by broadcasting on a small number of popular stations (even if that audience is poor, rural women).

Because of their ability to scale, mass media campaigns are over 100 times more cost-effective per person reached than community-level campaigns. Our model for predicting the health impacts of mass media campaigns suggests that the cost per year of life saved is between $2 and $10. This is cheaper than any other health intervention, including childhood immunisations ($8-$16), bednets to protect against malaria ($2-24), and anti-retroviral treatment for HIV/ AIDS ($673-$1,494).

We can save a life for around $100, simply by broadcasting radio messages that encourage parents to adopt healthy behaviours to protect their children, such as breastfeeding infants and washing their hands before meals. For example, a radio campaign in Cambodia increased the proportion of pregnant women who took iron supplements to prevent anaemia from 10% to 44%, and increased their awareness of the danger signs of acute respiratory infections (such as pneumonia) in children from 10% to 40%.

How to prove that mass media can save lives: a randomised controlled trial in West Africa DMI and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) are running a cluster randomised controlled trial of an innovative child survival intervention: a multi-issue radio health campaign.

The campaign involves the broadcast of health messages using radio spots (60-second adverts) and radio phone-in programmes. By broadcasting health messages that change the behaviours of pregnant women and new mothers, the project aims to reduce the large number of children dying before their fifth birthday in Burkina Faso and to reduce child mortality by 19%.

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predict how many lives could be saved through multi-issue mass media campaigns that target the most important underlying causes of death. The predictions of the DMILSHTM model are very promising and this research will be published in The Lancet later this year. The model predicts that comprehensive campaigns could reduce child mortality by 16% to 23% in low-income countries, depending on the profile of the country. The cost per life-year saved is also lower than any currently available health intervention.

This trial has been funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Planet Wheeler Foundation. If lives are saved on the scale that the model predicts, this approach should become a high priority for governments across the developing world.

If similar five-year campaigns are implemented in 10 African countries, the model predicts that one million lives should be saved. This process would, for the first time, place mass media campaigns in the mainstream of public health interventions, based on robust scientific evidence.

DMI and LSHTM are now testing the predictions of the model in a real-life setting in Burkina Faso, a country that which combines high child mortality with a localised media environment, permitting a cluster-randomised trial. The trial involves broadcasting health messages to seven geographic areas, chosen at random, and seven control areas for 2.5 years.

The evaluation, which includes baseline and endline mortality surveys with a 100,000 sample size, will be the most rigorous evaluation ever conducted of a mass media intervention.

Will Snell | Director of Public Engagement & Development | Development Media International www.developmentmedia.net | will.snell@ developmentmedia.net | +44 (0)20 3058 1631

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in Nottingham African Institute for Social Development (AISD) in partnership with Terrence Higgin Trust will be carrying out HIV Testing activities in Nottingham during the National HIV Testing Week, 22-29 November 2013.

24% of people who have HIV in England do not yet know it The National HIV Testing Week has been launched in response to the concerns of the on-going HIV transmission across England.

This transmission has been mainly caused by the 24 per cent of people who have HIV but don’t yet know it. They thus remain undiagnosed.

Once someone knows they have HIV, they can take control of their health and get treatment. This will not only prolong their

life but also make them far less likely to transmit the virus. Currently, over half of those who test positive for HIV do so after they should already be on treatment.

The national HIV prevention campaign is especially aimed at the population where HIV has been found to be more common.

This is among people from Africa and gay men. The National HIV Testing Week aims to increase testing among the most atrisk populations, increase awareness and acceptability of HIV testing among these groups and improve early diagnosis and treatment of HIV. Get tested today by contacting African Institute for Social Development (AISD), New Brook House, 385 Alfreton Road, Nottingham, NG7 5LR. Otherwise Call or Text 07572604343 or email amdani@ africaninstitute.org.uk.

You are invited to the Nottingham’s World Aids Day Fundraising Concert to be held on 20th November at the Café Bar, Nottingham Contemporary, Weekday Cross, Nottingham, NG1 2GB. Come enjoy all kinds of music Roots, Jazz, Soul, Pop and Acoustic music.

The event is free but there is a suggested donation £3.

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Mojatu Launches Reading Community Magazine With all the seats occupied the guests in the first ever CMNetwork event were forced to stand around the room to listen keenly to the wide array of knowledgeable, motivational and highly experienced speakers. The Mojatu Foundation team, publishers of Mojatu community magazine in Nottingham, travelled over 200 miles round trip to gain inspiration and knowledge in this event.

The speakers stressed the need for developing fruitful networks, the importance of cooperation and collaborative working for both social and private enterprises in order to expand their opportunities. They implored everyone to take advantage of those present by networking and exploring ways of developing successful and innovative partnerships. “Such ventures and partnerships will filling the existing gaps, help solve individual, business and community problems, access emerging markets and make better use of the existing resources,� said Cecily.

Toni Charles of Mi-Media, one of the highly inspirational speakers on the night and a very experienced marker and social media expert took this message to heart. He has agreed to join Mojatu Foundation team, together with Mojatu Media and local partners in Reading in establishing a local community and business magazine in Reading.

Following a very successful launch and publishing of Mojatu magazine in Nottingham, http://issuu.com/ mojatu, coupled with great online presence, Mojatu in partnership with local partners will launch the Reading Mojatu magazine later this year. It will be supported by Mojatu media website, www.mojatu.com, which attracts millions of visitors each month.

This glossy, highly glossy and very informative magazine will make its debut with a December edition published in late November. It will be officially launched during the second CMNetwork event 8th December 2013.

Published six times a year, this Mojatu magazine will celebrate the cultural and social success and competencies by black and ethnic minority individuals, organisations and communities. At its heart, this magazine will have special inclination towards positive

and empowering news on Africans and Caribbean communities.

We will work with community organisations, education institutions, universities, businesses, local authorities and government bodies in increasing coverage and expanding social integration and community betterment.

It will not only offer placements, training, internships and support to job seekers and those seeking to get into journalism, ICT, media and related sectors but also offer direct support and sponsorship to community organisations to ensure creation of thriving communities with strong economic viability.

Mi-Media will run the marketing and distribution campaigns while Mojatu Media will offer the graphic design, online and mobile presence while Mojatu Foundation will provide and manage the community oriented contents and services.

If you wish to make a tangible difference in your community while sharing your experiences and knowledge or reporting on matters of interest, please contact us for further details.

We are very eager to hear from those working in or seeking to get into journalism, photography and videography to help develop local citizenship journalism. Join the local team in sourcing contents such as stories, photos and videos for the magazine and Mojatu.com.

Early next year, Mojatu Magazine working with other partners will offer free journalism, social media and other contents sourcing and management courses online and through seminars. Mojatu also offers website development, graphic design, advertisement and branding services.

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Bookkeeping Tips for small businesses Keeping your books on the right track

By Emily Coltman When you’re running your own business, it’s important to make sure you keep your records and bookkeeping in order. Not only does this help you to keep on the right side of the taxman, it also means you’ll have useful, up-to-the-minute information about your business’s profit and its cash flow.

Emily Coltman FCA, Chief Accountant to FreeAgent – providers of award-winning online accounting system for small businesses and freelancers – gives her five top tips for making sure you stay on the right track when it comes to your bookkeeping.

Track your cash in and out

Remember that cash is the lifeblood of any business. If you don’t know what’s come in and what’s going out, you won’t know if you’ve got sufficient money to pay your upcoming bills or to cover your taxes.

If you don’t already do so, try making use of the speed and convenience of online banking. You should find that monitoring your account online makes it quicker and easier to track the money that’s going in and out of your business. You can even download statements from online banking and upload them to FreeAgent, making it even more straightforward to work out where you’re earning and spending money.

Invoice online

You can save time and paper by e-mailing your estimates and invoices to your customers, and chasing non-payments with automatic email reminders. This will also help you make sure you get paid the money you’ve earned for your work!

Keep on top of your bills

Don’t sour the relationships you have with your suppliers by forgetting to pay your bills. Instead, try to keep track of any bills that you’re not going to pay straight away, and make sure you keep a record of when they’re due to be paid - so that you can pay them before the deadlines.

Not only will this help keep your suppliers happy - and you never know when you might need a supplier to do you an urgent favour, such as a rush order - you may also be able to take advantage of early payment discounts.

You can do all four of these easily, and produce management accounts, by using a simple online accounting system like FreeAgent.

Track all your expenses

As well as spending money from your business bank account, you’re bound to spend money out of your own pocket on business expenses. But it’s easy to forget to keep track of these expenses when you’re doing your bookkeeping.

For example, if you travel to visit a client and buy your train ticket using a personal credit card, remember that this still counts as a cost of your business. If you don’t put it in your accounts, then your profit will look higher than it actually was, and worse, you’ll pay too much tax.

Consider using a tool like ReceiptBank to photograph your expense receipts on your iPhone and feed them automatically into your accounts - so you won’t run the risk of forgetting about them.

Keep your records carefully

Make sure that you keep all your paperwork, either as hard copies, or by scanning them onto your computer.

HMRC is quite happy for you to keep your business records as soft copies, so long as you can access them readily - but remember that if a document has writing on both sides (such as terms and conditions), you must scan both sides.

The exception to that is anything that has a tax deduction written on the piece of paper, such as a dividend voucher, or bank interest certificate. In these cases you must keep the hard copy.

However you keep your records, have a system and stick to it. Make sure that you can easily lay hands on any piece of paper in your system, in case of a query from your accountant or from HMRC as well as in case you need it. Sort documents by type (e.g. invoices, bills, bank statements) and by order such as date or alphabetical or both - rather than just filing them in one big pile.

You may also want to consider using an online accounting system such as FreeAgent to help you manage your record more efficiently. This will also allow you to attach scanned copies of documents such as bills to the entries in the software, which will save you having to look for them later.

Bookkeeping isn’t the most interesting of jobs, but it’s much easier to manage if you make use of all available tools and keep your records regularly updated. It’s easier to do an hour a week than to have to spend a month collecting your information at year end - and you could also save on accountants’ fees by keeping your records and paperwork in perfect order.

Emily Coltman FCA is Chief Accountant to FreeAgent, who provide an award-winning online accounting system designed to meet the needs of small businesses and freelancers.

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Hard Talk: Interviews with Nottinghamshire’s BME Police Officers

by Norma Gregory Following an exclusive article in Mojatu Magazine (March 2013, Issue M009) on Black Policing in Nottinghamshire and the subsequent ground breaking report on BME policing and recruitment by Professor Cecile Wright of Nottingham University, Norma Gregory spent time with three BME Police Officers in Nottinghamshire Police Force to get an insight into the realities of the application process their roles, their experiences, motivations and desired career paths.

Professor Wright’s Report found that there was need for better knowledge, understanding and improved community relations to help improve Nottinghamshire Police service thus securing future applications for recruitment into the police from all sections of the community.

7% of the population in Nottinghamshire are of BME origin yet only 4% (3.97) of the police are from the BME. It is important for communities to find out what it means to be a BME Police Officer in Nottinghamshire. The following three interviews give Mojatu readers a flavour of life on the beat.

Andrea Brown, Investigations Officer “I joined the police aged 32 and currently work as a (trainee) Investigations Officer with ‘Operation Clean Slate’ where I work in prisons engaging with offenders to collate information to solve crime. I have been in the force for fifteen years, ten of which I worked in the control room and five as a Police Officer.

Joining the force When I joined, there wasn’t a massive push for high academic qualifications but they help. I think there is currently a stronger push for effective communication skills and there is need for ability to speak to the public and to one’s peers. I think being able to listen to others is paramount for one to succeed in the police force. In the recruitment interview for the police, candidates may need to discuss the following seven competences which should include some examples: 1.

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Effective communication Community and customer focus Personal responsibility Resilience Problem solving Respect of race and diversity Teamwork

The above were part of the Integrated Competency Framework and have now been replaced by the Policing Professional Framework as follows: 1.

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Decision making Openness to change Service delivery Professionalism Public Service Working with others

To prepare for my job interview, I listed examples of my capabilities and knowledge in each of these competencies. I stuck the list on my bedroom wall and learnt them ready to share and explain in more details on my interview day. I also spent time talking to as many police officers as possible before and during my application and interview to get the real picture of what I was taking on and what was required of me.

As a black woman, I have never experienced any blatant racism and I was embraced by the force from the start. I don’t think it is a colour issue - it is about your ambitions and the desire to do well and serve the community.

Inspiration and Challenges I am inspired by my bosses. I want to be in their seat. A lot of them say: “It won’t be long until you’re in my seat!” I like to see people who have been victims of crime receive closure and the offender or offenders sentenced and dealt with by the law.

The biggest challenge I find at work is dealing with upset families, especially those that have suffered grief. I try to ensure that situations are handled professionally and with care. It is however consoling that when I get back to the station, my colleagues support and encourage me to keep going. I am also never afraid of asking for support whenever the need arises.

A shocking part of the job is seeing how some people live, without family or friends around for support. It is good to note that some support is available out there, such as at Elizabeth House in Nottingham which helps lots of people with drug problems integrate into the community. I am also shocked by the amount of domestic violence and what children see as a result of crime.

Feelings about Policing

Experiences

I love my role in the force and I am working towards doing my Sergeants’ exams in the next year. I hope to be put forward to be a Detective Constable and perhaps into CID. I want to sit my Inspector’s exams and become a Detective Inspector and I would love to move to a Chief Inspector’s rank.

My parents and partner were naturally worried about me joining the police in 1998 due to the prospects about me getting hurt on the job. However, their feelings have changed over time. I recently received a Commendation and my mum was really proud.

My advice to those who want to join the police force is to become a Special Constable first, where you get a real flavour of all aspects of the job. A previous job in, say customer relations, is also of great benefit.”

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Sukesh Verma, Operational Support Division – Firearms “I joined Nottinghamshire Police in 2001 after attaining a degree in Politics at Loughborough University following after completing my ‘A’ levels in Nottingham. My father was in the police force. I grew up in a police house. I am from a public sector family as my father was a police man, my uncle a fire fighter and my aunty a nurse so we covered all areas really! I joined the police to help people, save lives and to deal with situations that change a community for the better.

This gives me a lot of satisfaction.

Stop and search

When you join the police force, you do find people and your friends around change - sometimes they become ‘cagey’ or stop talking to you. But I am motivated to make a difference and be an orchestrator of change to make the police service and the community better.

‘Stop and Search’ is another issue. I have been stopped and searched in the community myself.

Stop and search is a vital resource but the media has whipped up frenzy about this. We are looking to change things but it is going to take time.

Supporting Community education

Regarding recruiting women, BME females are in a minority, which is another area of recruitment we ought to concentrate on. I get asked why there aren’t BME superintendents. As a service I think we need to look at this.

I want to develop my community projects called, ‘Tap the Gap’ and ‘Transformation through Education’. I have worked in schools talking to young people aged 14-17 about community safety and the dangers and consequences of using fire arms. As a police officer, I see the very good and the very bad in society but I hope to encourage people to make good choices. We need to break barriers down for people to see us as an organisation serving the community and to try to build rapport and better relations.

Experiences The best thing about the job is helping people in need and victims of crime. Ultimately, I think every police officer has the desire to serve the community.

Harvinder Bhaker, Police Officer “I am 24 years old and have been at Nottinghamshire Police Force since January 2013. Previously, I worked as a custody officer for four years after which I wanted career progression. I had first-hand experiences of police duties as a custody officer. I wanted to join the force as I felt I would have a lot to offer the community. I also had experience in the Special Constabulary in a voluntary capacity which showed my commitment and skills experience.

My Entrance Challenges I put in four applications to Nottinghamshire Police over six years and I was declined on three occasions. In my final application, I had learned how to display my life experiences better and spent more time explaining, reasoning and ensuring that I passed all sections of the application process. I went on courses on how to prepare for the application. You have to do various entry tests. A fitness test - a push and pull (about 37 Kg) -, a five hour assessment based on customer service as well as role plays and written responses. There is also an online psychometric test and one to one interview.

Career avenues To further my police career, I would like to work in the drugs team or take my Sergeants’ Exams but at this stage, I want to learn the job and do the very best I can to serve the public.

Heritage As a Sikh, I display my heritage by wearing a turban and feel proud to do so. I have found my bilingual skills a bonus as I am able to communicate better with different sections of our community. I keep fit through judo and boxing and I also train at the police gym.

I play cricket for Notts Police.

For more information about Nottinghamshire Police visit: www.nottinghamshire.police.uk www.twitter.com/nottspolice www.facebook.com/nottspolice www.youtube.com/nottinghampolice

Best part The best part of the job is making other people happy through solving crime. The most challenging part is knowing what forms to fill out and ensuring I follow police procedure. There is always someone to help whenever you ask.

To find out about applying to join Nottinghamshire Police: http://goo.gl/fQzQ6S Read or download Professor Cecile Wright’s Report, Exploring and Improving Black Policing Experiences (2013): http://goo.gl/bXG3Kg

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Write Right!

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Writing Skills Focus 3: Capital Letters

This issue of Mojatu will try to deal with an English grammar issue that many native writers of English as well as for many people new to the written English language: capital letters.

Capital letters (or upper case letters) are used in writtten English for many different reasons.

Below is a list of the most common usage for capital letters. Try to improve, learn these and practise using them to improve your writing. Write Right!

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The first letter of a sentence: Dean caught the bus.

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The name and surname of a person: Gilbert Josiah, Hannah Burt, Keisha Prince 3.

Names of countries and cities: Kenya, Paris, Tobago, Greece 4.

Language names: English, Kiswahili, Mandarin, Spanish, Hindi 5.

Days and Months: Monday, Saturday, April, December 6. Planets; Mars, Earth, Pluto, Saturn 7.

Roman numerals: III, IV, ML, XXV 8.

The first person pronoun: I 9.

Religions and religious figures: Christianity, Buddhism, Jesus, God, Budda 10. Festivals and holy days: Eid, Ramadan, Christmas, Divali, Easter 11. Words that identify nationalities or ethnic groups: Africans, Americans, Indian, Greek 12. The main words in the titles of books, plays, poems, films, magazines, newspapers : The Gleaner, Mojatu, The Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind, Pride and Prejudice 13. Subheadings: Introduction, Conclusion 14. Historical periods: Tudor, Victorian, Middle Ages 15. The words north, south, east and west when used in place names: the Far East, West Africa, the South Pole 16. Brand names: Nike, Dyson, Samsung, Heinz, Kleenex, Marmite, Grace 17. Names of legal cases: Williams v. Board of Education 18. For emphasis: there was ABSOLUTELY NO EVIDENCE to support the claims.

19. Direct quotations: The teacher said, “Please open your book.”

20. In abbreviations: BA, MA, NY, UK

Note ••The names of seasons are written in lower case: summer, winter, spring and winter.

••School subjects are not capitalised except for languages: geography, history, maths, German, English.

Lower case letters are normally used for all other purposes. Don’t use a capital letter unless you are sure you know why it’s needed.

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