Football Mania
Britain is a football mad country, and so there was widespread jubilation when England beat Iran 6-2 and…
1972 + Fifty
That makes 2022, and here we are looking back, from diverse angles, on what happened fifty years ago,…
Zanzibar Stories
We take vicarious pleasure and pride in the achievements of those we love: family and friends, naturally. Beyond…
J M Nazareth remembered
London Calling Special I have been re-reading J M Nazareth`s `Brown Man Black Country: A Peep into Kenya`s…
London Calling – Karim Hirji and Me
I was drawn to Karim Hirji when I read Godwin Siundu’s review of his Growing Up With Tanzania:…
Pandemic Fallout
London Calling So a whole year of Covid–19 has passed and we are still mired in the thick…
People of Colour
US Election 2020: relax, the nightmare is over! Not quite, not yet, alas. There is no doubt however…
BLM +
What the horrible death of George Floyd in the US city of Minneapolis in May 2020 unleashed, in…
London Calling: Global Gloom
As I write this we are in the grip of a truly international health crisis. Originating in China,…