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Interview with Peaches Golding – Lord Lieutenant of Bristol

Zakiya Mckenzie interview’s Lord Lieutenant of Bristol Peaches Golding at University of Bristol Graduation 2018 reception for Baroness Valerie Amos.


24 April 2018 0

Ujima Green and Black showreel

Listen to the Ujima Green and Black audioreel with soundbytes from our interviews with Liz Chege, Ade Olaiya, Helena Craig and Akuja De Garang.


25 November 2017 0

Ujima Green and Black Radio – May 2017

Listen to the May 2017 Ujima Green and Black radio show with a minute of silence for those left torn by the Manchester bombing. Jazz and Zakiya chat about wellbeing…
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25 May 2017 0

Rosa Hui of the Bristol And Avon Chinese Women’s Group

Rosa Hui, Director of the Bristol and Avon Chinese Women’s Group chats with Zakiya Mckenzie for the Green and Black Radio show on Ujima 98FM Bristol in 2017.


24 January 2017 0

Zoe Banks-Gross chats the benefits of cycling

In this interview from Ujima Green and Black Show, Zoe Banks-Gross of Kiddical Mass tell us why she is often seen zipping around Bristol on her bicycle.


25 December 2016 0

Grio Sound ft interview with reggae artiste Protoje

The Grio Sound on Ujima 98FM this week features an interview with reggae artiste Protoje before his performance at the O2 Academy Bristol 2016. Zakiya asks his views on PM…
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25 February 2016 0

Anti-Apartheid veteran Ahmed Kathrada visits the University of Johannesburg

Kathrada spent 18 years as a political prisoner on Robben Island and another eight at Pollsmoor Maximum Security Prison in Cape Town for his anti-apartheid activism. He was a very close friend of former President Nelson Mandela and upon his release, was elected to parliament.


28 March 2014 0

Art Deco in Johannesburg

Rogers Cooke designed many theatres and cinemas in Gauteng and the creative crowd followed him to Auckland Park. Everyone who was anyone in the arts and entertainment industry seemed to have a connection with the spot.


3 March 2014 0

South African Reggae Ambassador Andy Kasrils

If the name Kasrils rings a bell it’s because Andy is the son of anti-apartheid struggle veterans Ronnie and Eleanor Kasrils. His family, ANC exiles, left South Africa for the United Kingdom in the 1960’s and didn’t return until 1994 when his father accepted the position of Deputy Minister of Defence in Nelson Mandela’s government.


21 February 2014 0

An Iron Age History of Melville, Johannesburg

The first people to settle in the Johannesburg area in large numbers seem to have been Iron Age Tswana-speakers. These early ‘Joburgers’ came from the Magaliesburg Valley north of Johannesburg about 800 years ago, though they probably came from northern Tanzania over 1 500 years ago.


21 February 2014 0