Settlers 27.120/1ag George Davison Reid photographed Covent

George Davison Reid photographed Covent Garden market porters and van drivers outside the Theatre Royal

1858 shows the soldiers' return a year later

with shoppers and tradespeople crowding the streets

it has stood on this site

hauntings and suicides

Settlers 27.120/1ag George Davison Reid photographed CoventThis is a story that begins with post 1960s arrivals from Nigeria, Ghana, Zimbabwe and Somalia. Today their descendants have unleashed a tidal wave of British creativity from Lambeth to Lagos, Islington to the Ivory Coast. Jimi Famurewa writes with humour, style and sensitivity about the extraordinary world of Black African London. He also uncovers a history of racial discrimination, examines the legacy of transracial private fostering, and reveals