Special report by Sylvester Williams in Lusaka, Zambia As the cost of living continues to rise and unemployment soars in the sub Saharan country of Zambia, young people have been looking for innovative ways to survive. In his March 2017 state of the nation speech, President Edgar Chagwa Lungu implored the people to unite to […]

The Story of Mr Oyewole Ajagbe. Nigerian born Immigration adviser Mr Oyewole Ajagbe has lived for the better part of 43 years in the UK. He arrived as a Nigerian government sponsored scholarship student in 1974 to study Marine Engineering with hopes of going back after his studies. Well, he is still in the UK

The family of murdered teenager Yusuf Sonko has made an emotional appeal for information that could help identify those responsible for his “brutal and senseless” head gun shot that led to his death on the night of Friday June 2 2017 on Tagus Street behind Lodge lane shops in Toxteth, Liverpool. Yusuf’s death followed two

As part of Citizen Outreach Coalition (COC) organization’s implementation of its Heritage lottery funded project “The Definitive story of Africans in Merseyside”, scores of volunteers have received hands-on training on video/audio history recording and the skills required to collect/record oral history. Training of the volunteers took place on Monday June 12 2017 and Tuesday June

  Liverpool based charity Citizen Outreach Coalition (COC) will on Friday June 16 2017 launch its seminal project “The Definitive Story of Africans in Merseyside” in the Conference room of the Kuumba Imani Millennium Centre in Toxteth. The project was made possible by a grant from Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) made possible by money raised

Some youths In Toxteth Liverpool on Friday April 21 2017 had a one-on-one chance to develop the Communications, self-esteem and anger management skills that will prevent them from adopting any kind of anti-social or indulge in criminal behaviour. Communications expert and former Solicitor Matthew Thorneton-Field was again the main facilitator as Liverpool based Charity Citizen

Residents of Toxteth, on Saturday March 25 2017 joined Citizen Outreach Coalition’s (COC) anti-drug and gun crime campaign to also say no to a scourge that is badly affecting the lives of millions of people across the UK. Known fondly as L8, Toxteth has the highest concentration of black Africans and Caribbean’s in Liverpool. It

Liberian peace activist and 2011 Nobel prize winner Leyman Gbowee brought the closing plenary of the London Bond International conference on development on Tuesday March 21 2017 to a close with two fitting anecdotes; a group of three black boys who provide new flip-flops to a white old man in New York and one of

There was pomp and pageantry, loads of music, dancing, colour and a parade showing the best of Ireland at Trafalgar Square on Sunday March 19 2017  in the heart of London as more than 10.000 people across the world joined the Irish to celebrate one of their patron saints; Patrick. Above all, there was an