I wanted to use this blog to remember a piece of history that some might know about but most will not. This relates to the racist murder of Axmed Abuukar Sheekh in 1989 and the campaign by Lothian Black Forum (LBF) to get the murder recognised as a racist murder.
Cross-posted from Retrospect Journal – Interview with Professor Diana Paton, University of Edinburgh, UK and Professor Matthew J. Smith, University College London, UK. Transcribed and edited by Jamie Gemmell, Editor in Chief, Retrospect Journal. Retrospect’s Editor in Chief, Jamie Gemmell, sat down with the editors of the recently published Jamaica Reader. Professor Diana Paton and …
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