#BlackHistoryMonth – John Richard Archer defied the odds
Article by February 16, 2021
John Richard Archer, with Barbadian roots, was a British politician, Pan-Africanist, and civic leader who became
the first mayor of African-descent to be elected of Battersea, a civil parish and metropolitan borough in London, England.
Archer was born in Liverpool on June 8, 1863 to Richard Archer, a ship steward from Barbados, and Mary Theresa Burns, an Irishwoman.
There is not much known of Archer’s early life, except that he possibly may have attended medical school and was in the merchant navy that provided opportunities to travel abroad to the United States and Canada.
Illicit financial flows hinder development in Africa – the UN must rise to the challenge of ending this
“Eliminating illicit financial flows is not impossible, as many think. First of all, we must all realise that they constitute a real violation of human rights,” says Jolie de Poukn, an activist with ATTAC-Africa. Photo taken in March 2020 near Khartoum Airport in Sudan.
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21 January 2021
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“Eliminating illicit financial flows is not impossible, as many think. First of all, we must all realise that they constitute a real violation of human rights,” says Jolie de Poukn, an activist with ATTAC-Africa. Photo taken in March 2020 near Khartoum Airport in Sudan.
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INTRO: While George Padmore’s contribution to Pan-African ideals had been widely acknowledged, to the extent that he’s often called “The Father of African Emancipation”, it is rarely recognised that Padmore obtained
his inspiration from Edward Wilmot Blyden. Blyden himself was preceded, in his perception of the task that faced educated Black people all over the world, by Sylvester Williams, who organised the first-ever Pan-African Conference in London in 1900. This second part of the article on Edward Blyden concentrates on his analysis of the failure of nations that called themselves “Christian”, to accord Africa any value, other than the sum total of the commodities secured fro Africa for commercial purposes.