Butterfly Magazine - Issue 21

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Faces of Africa – Chief Theresa Kachindamoto:

Let girls be girls Chief Theresa Kachindamoto is one of the most respected chief’s in Malawi.

She pioneered in the fight against child marriages in her community. So far she has cancelled over one thousand child marriages.

She hopes to completely abolish the practice.

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iChurch: In Memoriam

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Black Men’s Health

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Stormzy Superheroes

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Jobs/ Opportunities

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Chief Theresa Kachindamoto

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Freedom is Mine with Fayida

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The Disruptor

Editor-in-Chief Beverley Cooper-Chambers EDITORIAL TEAM Karen Ferrari Simone Scott-Sawyer Editorial Researcher Tasina J. Lewis Marketing Team Marvin Osemwegie — Marketing Director Michael Brown — Social Media Analyst Financial Strategic Advisor Nastassia Hedge-Whyte, MAAT, ACCA,ICAJ Regular Features Rhea Delaney (London) Joshua Grant aka Sports Arrow (London) Fayida Jailler (UK) Bakita Kasadha (UK & Uganda) Chi-Chi Osemwegie (London) Design Editor Rusdi Saleh

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Issa Rae to produce HBO Documentary on History of Black Television

Bessie Coleman Aviator extraordinaire

The air is the only place free from prejudices. I knew we had no aviators, neither men nor women, and I knew the Race needed to be represented along this most important line, so I thought it my duty to risk my life to learn aviation.

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essie Coleman was born into poverty in Atlanta, Texas in 1892 to a Black mother and a Black and Native American father. At the age of six she began her studies in a segregated, one-room school, a four mile walk from her home. She studied at this school for eight years, thriving as a math student and developing a love for reading.

When she was nine, her father left the family. And while Bessie continued her studies, she had to pick cotton and wash clothes to help earn money for the now fatherless family.

Throughout her teen years, Bessie was able to save a little money and at eighteen she began college. Her funds however were only good for one term, so she dropped out. But it was here in college that she learned about flying. She read tales of the Wright Brothers and of Harriet Quimby, the first American female pilot.

At twenty three Bessie found herself living in Chicago working as a manicurist and thinking of what to do next.

Hearing stories of the war and European female pilots from her brother who had just returned from World War I, Bessie decided to become an aviator. She took on a second job to earn money to enter flight school, but soon discovered that flight schools in the United States only admitted white men.

With help and encouragement from a prominent African American businessman, Bessie learned French and enrolled in a French flight school, the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale. In 1921, Bessie became the first person of African American and Native American descent to earn an international pilot’s license.

Bessie returned to Chicago, but no one would hire a Black woman pilot. So Bessie once again went to Europe to learn to become a stunt pilot and parachutist.

Bessie had a successful, four year career as a barnstormer, or exhibition pilot, becoming known to her fans as “Queen Bess” or “Brave Bessie”. She performed aerial stunts such as figure eights, loops, barrel rolls and daredevil dives until a mechanical failure in her airplane caused her untimely death at the age of 34. Bessie’s ultimate plan was to start an aviation school to train Black pilots.

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History remembers and reveres Eugene O’Neill.

Charles Gilpin, However, was the first AfricanAmerican lead on Broadway in the extremely controversial play, “Emperor Jones.” History forgot him. This film tells his story for the first time. — Emperor of Broadway will premier in 2020.

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Unemployed and living with the mother-in-law from hell, a young comedian and his childhood friend are sucked into the ride of their lives when they decide there is no time like the present to pursue their dreams of opening a comedy club.

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Echoes of the Empire: Kenya’s ‘evil clan’

This is the story of how the The British Empire destroyed a clan, branded them evil and how people are still suffering to this day”. The BBC’s Anne Soy travelled to her birthplace in Kenya to meet members of a clan in her Kalenjin ethnic community.

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Chadwick Boseman’s sings It’s a Man’s World Keeping up with the Joneses Sailbourne Entertainment (a European film production company) selects the Jones family (Irving, Angela and their children Tracy and Nathan) to be the subject of their documentary: “Life & Times in the United Kingdom”. It requires that a camera crew follow the family around for six days after which the family will receive $10,000US. Irving signs the contract to do the show against Angela’s wishes. Now the Joneses have to amicably coexist while the camera crew films their every move.

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Freedom is Mine

Honduras

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he Garifuna community are an ethnic group dispersed across Garifuna women Central America, the United States in Honduras and Canada. Their total population

by Felipe Canova currently stands at 300,000. The biggest settlement resides in the United States where to a certain degree they are absorbed under the vast and infinitely diverse umbrella term ‘African-American’.

The second largest Garifuna population Garifuna la Ceiba carnival

by Laura Knight can be found in Honduras, with small but significant concentrations in Guatemala, Nicaragua and Belize. Honduras has a population of 9.3 million, of March in La Ceiba Honduras Garifuna revolted, which of 100,000 people

by Felipe Canova led by chief Joseph are Garifuna. There are 36 Chotoyer also known as Garifuna communities in Satuye, who was ultimately Honduras at 10 settlements. killed in battle and became the first Garifuna hero.

There are significant Garifuna The Garifuna resisted European rule so persistently populations on the island and for so long that in 1797 the British forcibly of Roatan, the coastal city deported 5,000 Garifuna to Honduras in central of Trujillo and in coastal America where they largely settled on the nearby villages which stretch beyond island of Roatan. A smaller number founded villages Honduras, spanning from throughout the Atlantic coastline of Central America Nicaragua to Belize. as their population expanded.

Joseph Chatoyer In 1635 two slave ships The Garifuna today largely work in fishing and

by Black History Heros trafficking West Africans were farming. Tapado and Machuca are some of their ship-wrecked on the coast of the most distinguished dishes. Guifity is a classic Caribbean island of St. Vincent. The island was Garifuna alcoholic beverage made from already inhabited by the Arawak and the Red rum, roots and mixed herbs, which is said Carib indigenous populations who had previously to be an aphrodisiac. In 2001 UNESCO colonised the island. The West Africans declared Garifuna culture in Honduras, from the shipwreck integrated with the Belize, Guatemala and Nicaragua locals, and were referred to as Black a “Masterpiece of the Oral and Caribs, adopting the Carib language Intangible Heritage of Humanity”. but maintaining many of their Every year on April 12th the African customs. These mixed Garifuna on the island of Roatan people of Arawak, Carib and West celebrate the anniversary of the day African origin came to be known as they first arrived on the island and the Garifunas. created their settlement. The Garifuna The British attempted are proud of their African heritage and to claim the island as a treasure their traditions which have colonial possession, but the been passed down the generations.

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Welcome to the Disruptor

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Stormzy To Fund 50 Scholarships for Students From Disadvantaged Backgrounds It’s part of the rapper’s commitment to donate £10 million to Black British causes in a decade.

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Ade Daramy – Writer, Broadcaster, Historian, Editor, Poet, Social Commentator, motivational speaker, Media trainer, a man of many talents and a master of words.

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BM: What was your early life like in Sierra Leone?

I was born in London to very patriotic and allinclusive parents. My father owned a massive library at home, so my siblings and I were exposed to encyclopaedias and lots of literary texts from a young age. My parents were very liberal (though they tried to give the impression they were not) and often sought our opinions on which car to buy and discuss world politics such as the Suez crisis, which prevailed at the time. When friends of the family would visit, much to their bemusement, my parents encouraged us to engage in conversations with adults and am pleased to say my siblings and I managed to mostly hold our own! My parents were part of the generation whose plan was to study in the UK and return to Sierra Leone. They always spoke fondly about Sierra Leone which to a five year old sounded very exotic; especially the name.

When my father completed studies as a barrister and my mother finished studying as a nurse, they decided it was time for the family to head back. So, in 1960 we travelled by boat, the SS Winnebar from Southampton. I still recall the palpable excitement to this day. It felt like we were embarking on a

lifetime adventure. Once aboard, we the children had the run of this huge ship and went berserk.

These were the days before the fear of children falling prey to ill-intentioned people, so we were allowed to run free. It was a two week trip and the ship had a full complement of staff members available to keep the children entertained – there were games at our disposal, and we were even taken to the captain’s deck and shown how the ship was steered, wildly exciting stuff for a five year old!

It was normal to get dressed up for dining every evening, as you never knew when you would be invited to the captain’s table. It truly epitomised an age of glamour!

We docked at an area called Deep Water quay in the east end of Freetown, in the Cline Town part of Freetown. Coming from Fulham & Putney a relatively white area in London and now seeing nothing but black people was mind blowing at that age. I remember the strong smell of sweat as people helped with our luggage.

A strict life of rituals and traditions I remember my Grandfather (Pa Oldfield) being very strict, but also a showman. He would get my siblings and I to polish his shoes until we could see our faces on it. Another ritual was eating a Sierra Leonean staple dish usually eaten on a Saturday made from fermented cassava, called foo foo. This would usually be accompanied by a rich, spicy, leafy sauce, but I did not and still do not like foo foo, much to my grandmother’s chagrin. On Sunday it was a chicken or meat stew served with white rice.

My Parents (Alpha Kanji Daramy, Eugenia Ayodele Daramy (nee Oldfield), wedding day, St Luke’s Church, Chelsea.

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Our household, or rather my grandparents’ household, where we stayed when we first reached Sierra Leone, was rather Christian led and very conservative. We attended an Anglican church, St Phillip’s on Patton Street, most Sundays and I would be thoroughly inspected from head to toe to ensure I wore the appropriate attire before leaving the house.

My parents at a reception at From age 5, I had mastered the art of tying a necktie.

Paramount Hotel, Freetown.

So formal was my upbringing that I did not buy my first pair of jeans until age 30! I also recall each family paying for and owning their own pew in the church. This discovered there were school children who was a system that worked had no food as their families could not well, until it was Easter afford it. I was so perturbed by this that or Palm Sunday when the I refrained from taking a packed lunch to congregation number would school from then on. Yet on the other end of swell. This meant that regular the spectrum, Freetown had become known churchgoers who had paid for as “the Athens of Africa” because Fourah their pews would suddenly Bay College located there and formerly Foo Foo and Stew find themselves with no seat affiliated with the University of Durham and all hell would literally in the UK, became the seat of education. break loose, in the church.

The standards were high, and the lecturers were I remember lots of pushing and shoving all while the sound. Notable personalities from all over West Africa Reverend preached about showing each other brotherly including Nigeria and Ghana who studied at the college love. would go on to excel in their respective fields, following My home environment was quite a relaxed one their studies at Fourah Bay College. One such individual where children were very much seen AND heard. was Samuel Ajayi Crowther the first student to be However, the level of respect and discipline was high, enrolled at the college. Of Yoruba descent, he went such that on one occasion when I was caught fighting on to become a linguist and the first African Anglican in public by a friend of my parents, I was told by her to Bishop in Nigeria. report myself to my parents when I got home, and I did!

By this time, my mother, Eugenia, had given up her Some interesting facts about the land of my career to be a homemaker and, friends would come and forefathers, Sierra Leone visit and say, “I wish my mum was like yours”. We could tease her and call her “Benguema gyal In 1792 Freetown was founded to (Benguema Girl, after the village where settle freed slaves. The constitution also she was born) and ‘Bishop granpikin established that same year, in the Colony (Bishop’s grandchild. Apparently, as of Sierra Leone, was the first place in the Bishop Johnson’s first female grandchild, world to give women the right to vote. he doted on her, somewhat). My siblings, Before the suffragettes broke the mould John, Eugenia, Janette and Sydney, had in the UK, almost a century later, history a blast growing up and have nothing but tells us that women having the right to the fondest memories of our parents. vote were first made in Sierra Leone.

The legacy they left has carried us Many may not realise that not only was throughout our lives. the slave trade was not abolished in Sierra As part of my father’s practice he Leone until 1928, the colour bar existed started to prosecute some serious My father, several decades after that. There was one Al ph a Kanji Daramy cases and I suddenly realised there was occasion, I discovered a racecourse which a not-so idyllic side of Sierra Leone. was en route to my school but no one ever used it, When I started primary school, I was given a packed even though it was an obvious short-cut. So, I enquired lunch until I had a rude awakening one day when I 28

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as to why this was so and it turned out that the locals were forbidden from using it. Being a rebel, this was never going to sit well with me, so one day I decided I would take my friends and walk through the racecourse, only to be confronted by a house boy who came rushing out of a nearby house to tell us not to use that route. A young white boy who came out of the house and shouted ‘what are you doing here you filthy boys?’ followed him. I was so incensed I instinctively lashed out and hit him, much to the dismay of my friends. They had a lot of fear for the white man, but I never could stand injustice. Having spent my earlier life in England, to me, he was just an insolent boy of my age.

We were now moving into a period when certain movers and shakers in Sierra Leonean society were starting to agitate about such racism. So, on 27th April 1961, Sierra Leone became independent and on 2nd September 1961 we became the 100th member of the United Nations. Many Sierra Leoneans on completion of their studies in the UK, assuming they would be able to get jobs, ended up hitting a permanent brick wall because of discrimination. So the intelligentsia started rising up and decided to take back the reins. There was a certain inevitability to its independence and the British had no choice but to eventually relinquish control. It was a very thrilling time to be present for the independence – a lot of excitement and expectation hung in the air.

However, the ‘independence’ honeymoon was largely superficial, scratch a little beneath the surface and despicable levels of racism still existed. I remember a popular spot in Freetown called The Young Sportsmen Club, Wilkinson Road that only allowed Lebanese as its patrons up till circa 1964/65. It was only after independence that the country as a whole started developing the confidence to overturn these anachronistic and blatantly racist rules. Despite its growing pains, there were some strong colonial legacies and I remember the black cabs and red double-decker buses, which were eventually phased out.

Meanwhile Gershon Collier, Sierra Leone’s first permanent representative to the UN was the last foreign dignitary to meet John F Kennedy in New York on 20th November 1961, when he was Sierra Leonne’s Ambassador to the USA, just two days before JFK was assassinated.

Sad and supernatural occurrences While in school one day I found myself missing my older brother Roland, who contracted cerebral malaria within 3 months of arriving in Sierra Leone and died, aged 10. One day, without warning JFK Roland had just collapsed in front me and shortly after I recall seeing ‘a man’ in the room, but it turned out this may have been an apparition of sorts, as no one else could see him. Throughout my life, I have had similar chance, inexplicable experiences/ coincidences, which remain a phenomenon to this day.

I remember a swinging 60s feeling in Sierra Leone and neighbouring big towns like Bo in the south, being a melting pot for musicians: the artists’ scene was buzzing. Sierra Leone had the likes of Louis Armstrong and Dizzy Gillespie play between 1959 and 1961, Freetown. This was considered a major feat for AfricanAmericans at the time. After all, we were a small country that very few outside of Africa had heard of.

Curious facts The Sierra Leonean constitution is rather interesting legal document: in the matter of one John Akar – born in Sierra Leone of part Lebanese descent and who wished to stand for parliament was unable to do so as the constitution had been amended a year after independence to contain a clause which refers to only those of ‘Negro African blood’ as being the only ones eligible to stand for any elected office. It was widely recognised that the amendment was inserted specifically to target the Lebanese!

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John Joseph Akar was a Sierra Leonean entertainer, writer, and diplomat. In 1960, Akar became the first nonCreole and the first Sherbro to be appointed Director of Broadcasting of the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Services (SLBS). He founded the National Dance Troupe to encourage Sierra Leoneans to have pride in their cultural heritage.

In 1961, the National Anthem of Sierra Leone composed by John Akar was adopted when the country became independent replacing “God Save The Queen.� Do you know the lyrics of the national anthem?

High we exalt thee, realm of the free; Great is the love we have for thee; Firmly united ever we stand, Singing thy praise, O native land.

We raise up our hearts and our voices on high, The hills and the valleys reecho our cry; Blessing and peace be ever thine own, Land that we love, our Sierra Leone

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The Untold Story between Coke and Pepsi

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There was another interesting case in 1942, when Coca Cola took out a lawsuit against Pepsi Cola on the basis that Coca Cola were the first to discover and use the kola nut from some African countries including Sierra Leone. Coca Cola of course lost.

Do you know which was the first country in the world to produce the first self-adhesive stamps? On 9th February 1964 Sierra Leone became the first country to do just that!

In September 1607 an East India Company

vessel called the Red Dragon, anchored in Sierra Leone en route to Indonesia, was the venue for the first performance of a Shakespeare play outside England.

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Next week: Ade Daramy tells us why he chose to settle in the Gambia.

Twitter: @AdeD1955 Facebook: Daramy Adeyemi Ships docked in Sierra Leone en route to other destinations.

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y name is Lyttanya Shannon and I’m directing a documentary for the BBC , about the experience of the children of the windrush generation in the British education system, during the 1960s and 1970s.

During this time, black children were 4 x more likely to be sent to special schools, known back then as schools for the “educationally subnormal”.

These startling disparities were often caused by racist assumptions and attitudes towards black children. It had a profound effect and prevented many from achieving their full potential.

We’d like to include an element in the film that explores the experience of young black children and teenagers in today’s schools, to find out how they feel about their race in the context of education. We’re looking for a variety of ages, between 8 and 16, and would ideally like to film next week or the week after.

The film is being executive produced

by Oscar winning director Steve McQueen, and by James Rogan, Director of Stephen Lawrence: The Murder that Changed a Nation.

If you would be interested in your child taking part, and to find out more information, please email the researcher for the project

Beya@roganproductions.net or text +44 7538 712227.

We will film at a social distance, ideally in an outdoor space - and your child will need to be chaperoned by a legal guardian or responsible adult.

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ITV is recruiting eight Daytime Apprenticeships. Applications via

https://www.itvjobs.com/ The deadline is 20 September 2020 Do pass this on to any young people you know who are looking for a first step into TV th

Oxford University Press has made all of their CSEC and CAPE textbooks for school children freely available for online reading!

Share with anyone who may benefit, including friends and family overseas:

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Is Italian fashion

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Italian designer Stella Jean says more needs to be done to tackle racism in the industry.

Jean, of Haitian descent, told the BBC she decided not to showcase in this year’s Milan Fashion Week in protest over racism in the industry. She launched a campaign asking ‘Do Black Lives Matter in Italian Fashion?’ and is urging brands to hire more black people.

Italy’s fashion council says a lot of its brands are trying hard to be more inclusive but that the government and other organisations have to drive positive change.

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LAUGHTER GOOD FOR THE SOUL

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Christian Malcolm

first black head coach for Team GB

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hristian Malcolm, born in Newport, Wales, is of Jamaican heritage and a former 200m sprinter with Team GB at the Olympics. Malcolm is used to winning medals and in 1998 he was awarded World Junior Athlete of the Year. He retired in 2014 and became a non-executive director of Welsh Athletes moving on in 2017 to receive the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Coach Award. He played a key role in helping Team GB, men and women’s 4x100m relay teams, win gold and silver IAAF World Championships. In 2020 he was appointed Head Coach of the British Athletics Olympic Programme. In addition, he served as a performance coach for the Disabled athletes in Wales, where he coached

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Jordan Howe to a silver medal in the Para-Olympics T35 100m. Over the years he would coach numerous other athletes including Rhys Jones.

In 2019, he became Head of Performance and Coaching at Athletics Australia. This was a huge step in the right direction in his coaching career and helped him land the Team GB Head Coach. B In July 2020, by former athlete, Darren Campbell gave him a vote of confidence and Sports Arrow endorses that move. Hopefully, we’ll see his impact on the team in the Olympics and medals!

Until next time, watch this space!

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Last Word

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