WINDRUSH Story Project – The People That Helped Shape Britain

*Some years in the past, I featured OUR ROOTS documenting the WINDRUSH Story Challenge on EURweb albeit in black and white.

Years later, many are speaking about WINDRUSH in the UK and past. I first documented it within the UK’s Voice newspaper. Later it was documented once more on EURWEB in color. What’s WINDRUSH about?… you might ask.

Firstly, Windrush was the identify given to the German ship which on June twenty second, 1948, was the ship often called HMT Empire Windrush when it docked at Tilbury, Essex in England and helped modified the face of British historical past without end. The ship carried one of many first waves of Caribbeans who had been seeking to make a contemporary begin in Britain. This was on the British authorities’s invitation. The group of Windrush arrivals numbered 492 — males, ladies, and one little one, a 13-year-old boy. Since then, the Windrush Era has made a exceptional impression on British tradition, and communities are richer for his or her heritage and traditions. British politicians of the day then questioned why Caribbean folks had been allowed to return to Britain. There was hostility to their coming.

In gentle of this, this yr, it has been needed to spotlight the story and commemorate 75 years of Windrush. for the reason that arrival of Caribbean folks to the UK via workshop actions, storytelling and video displays, and documentaries. It’s a Black historical past story that should be instructed.

There additionally was the Windrush scandal that surfaced in 2017 after it emerged that lots of of Commonwealth residents, lots of whom had been from the ‘Windrush’ era, had been wrongly detained, deported, and denied authorized rights. It was a political time bomb.

There may be the ‘Windrush’ era who’re those that arrived within the UK from Caribbean international locations between 1948 and 1973. In order a derivative from OUR ROOTS, the WINDRUSH Story paperwork fully the historical past of individuals from the Caribbean who’ve helped form Britain immediately.

Known as The Windrush story venture, I goal to teach younger black Britons and the enthused about Windrush via my Windrush lively cartoon workshop classes and presentation occasions. I consider that every one ought to be taught and know extra as this has now been documented on YOUTUBE courtesy of Southwark Libraries and Heritage’s YOUTUBE channel – (253) The Windrush Story Challenge – YouTube

TAYO Fatunla whose work has been featured on MSN.com through EURweb.com is an award-winning British-Nigerian Comedian Artist, Editorial Cartoonist, Author, and Illustrator and is an artist of the African diaspora. He’s a graduate of the distinguished Kubert Faculty, in New Jersey, US., and recipient of the 2018 ECBACC Pioneer Lifetime Achievement Award for his illustrated OUR ROOTS creation and sequence – Well-known folks in Black Historical past – He participated at UNESCO’s Cartooning In Africa discussion board held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and the Cartooning International Discussion board in Paris, France and has held a digital OUR ROOTS cartoon workshop for SMITHSONIAN- Nationwide Museum of African Artwork, Washington D.C. His Fela Kuti picture is prominently featured in Burna Boy’s mega-Afrobeat hit tune “Ye”. – https://www.instagram.com/tfatunla123

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