Saturday 13th February 2010
Venue: Southwark Town Hall
35 Peckham Road,
London SE5 8UB
Time: 4 pm – 7pm.

This will be a real opportunity for a final briefing for all those people who intend to volunteer for driving, packing and sorting which will take place the next day:

Sunday 14th February 2010
Hearts to Africa,
Eltringham Street,
off York Road,
Battersea,
London SW18 1GT.
12:30pm to 4:30pm.

UHUK now have a registered charity number: 1133997

Obama Music - The American Authors new book.

Centerprise Presents:

Join Bonnie and hear her views on issues on both sides of the Atlantic.
A British resident and Chicago native Bonnie has recently been the focus of much attention on topics as diverse as the rise of the British National Party and leader of the free world President Barack H. Obama.

Bonnie launches her latest book Obama Music with a book signing, talk and dinner.

Download full event details here: Greer_Dec05

Spaces are limited so book early to avoid disappointment.

Queen Afua 4 day intensive training course in London 2010

All the way from the U.S.A, Queen Afua is an internationally renowned herbalist, holistic health specialist, and dedicated healer of women's bodies and souls, who practices from a uniquely Afrocentric spiritual perspective. Through her work as a certified colon therapist, polarity practitioner, Hatha Yoga and Ari Ankh Ka Instructor, lay midwife and fasting specialist, she has guided thousands of women and men, coast to coast, in the art and science of Natural Living for over 37 years.

Her bestsellers, Heal Thyself for Health and Longevity, Sacred Woman: A Guide to Healing The Feminine Body, Mind and Spirit, have forever changed the way Africans practice holistic health and in her latest book, The City Of Wellness, she answers the primal scream from the heart and soul of the African community worldwide, recognizing and addressing the connection between malnutrition-obesity-illness led her to create a new “greenprint” for regaining our lost physical, psychological, and spiritual health.

For more information call: 0207 254 9632

Download pdf copy here

Free delivery on orders over £15 in a one mile radius

Saturday Workshops, 2009:- September 5th; October 3rd and November 7th.
Cost £85 , concs £75

Tuesday Narrative Drive:- September: 1,8,15,22,29 and October 6, 13, 20, 27
Cost £125 , concs £99

Course leader Jacob Ross is the author of acclaimed short story collections, Song for Simone (1986) and A Way to Catch the Dust. His first novel, Pynter Bender, was published in September 2008 ans was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize; Caribbean Review of Books Book of The Year; The Author's Society Best Novel, 2009. Jacob Ross recently won an Arts Council of England Award for his current novel in progress, The Village Above the Wind and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

All courses take place at Centerprise Trust, 136 Kingsland High Street, London, E8 2NS.
For more information go to www.jacobrossonline.com or email rosswriterj@googlemail.com

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Publisher: Africa Research & Publications -£20

Dr Marimba Ani`s Yurugu is a monumental achievement that will outlive European civilization. When in a few hundred years time scholars will be picking over the remains of Europe`s self-combustion, and puzzling over its pathological drive to exploit and dominate, Dr Ani`s anthropological masterpiece will still be feted as the work of a prophet without peer.

Publisher: 4th Estate Ltd - £10

Jacob Ross is an extraordinarily gifted writer who combines human warmth and sympathy with musical sentences and a masterly sense of form. I have loved Ross's short stories for years, and although I am still only half way through Pynter Bender l want to share my sense that everyone should read it - bringing back to warm, breathing life a Caribbean world that has slipped into the past. You writers out there - read Mr Ross to see what good writing is. I'm a writer, and I envy the man's velvety richness of texture and the quiet confidence with which he makes his characters believable and touching. Ross is particularly good on women and on the relationships between them - an unusual and welcome gift for a male writer. I am loving this book which gathers power with every page.

Publisher: Njoya Foundation - £8

I thoroughly enjoyed this travel writing works of the late Christian Small, as he depicts tales of his travels and community work throughout West Africa. The book is compiled from entries in his diary and emails to friends sent from his base in Ghana, and from there he travelled to the Ivory Coast, and Mali. There were comical moments as well as it being educational on the histories of particular places.
His writing conjured up the scenes vividly; the tastes, (old chicken, porcupine meat,) the colours, (bright cloths of the peoples' garments), and the smells. Christian crammed in so much, and makes brief mention of the voluntary work he undertook while on his travels.

What was deeply moving is knowing Christian's young life was cruelly taken away in the London 7:7 bus bombing (by what were led to believe were terrorists) when we read that he had a close call after he missed his last Tro-tro bus to Tetrefu and later saw the same bus crashed and overturned in the road.
This is a must read for anyone about to venture on a trip to West Africa. In tribute to Christian, and support of the Njoya Foundation, have it as your next book club read. If Christian had been alive today, I'm sure he would have had a promising writing career ahead of him, as this was an excellent first book.