2002
Summary of events in 2002
Changing Britannia Series Three with:
- Professor Harry Goulbourne, who has made major contributions in the fields of history, politics and sociology
- Errol Lloyd, painter, sculptor, pioneering children’s book illustrator, author and arts administrator
- Waveney Bushell, educational psychologist and campaigner in the black education movement
- Yvonne Brown, solicitor in her own legal practice specialising in cases concerning children, education and mental health
- Neil Kenlock, photographer and founder/director of Choice FM London
- Gloria Mills, active trade unionist and Director of Equal Opportunities in the UK’s largest trade union, UNISON
- Shirley Thompson, composer of opera, symphonic and chamber music, music for film, TV and theatre, film director and lecturer in music
Other events:
- Poetry reading by Jayne Cortez, African-American jazz poet
- Talk on Nigeria and Africa by Professor Yusufu Bala Usman, a leading Nigerian intellectual and historian
- Poetry reading of his favourite poets by John La Rose, Chairman of the GPI, along with Linton Kwesi Johnson, Trustee of the GPI
- Poetry reading by Mervyn Morris, Jamaican poet
- Reading and talk by Kamau Brathwaite, acclaimed poet, lecturer and historian from Barbados

