A scientific committee with the United Nations heard a presentation about why Africville should be designated as an UNESCO international site of historic memory. The committee with The Routes of Enslaved Peoples Project met in Halifax last weekend. As the Examiner reported last week, it was the first time the project, which was created by […]
#1792Project still writing letters to Black Loyalists who left Nova Scotia 230 years ago
A project commemorating the 1,196 Black Loyalists who left Nova Scotia’s shores in 1792 is still collecting letters, according to one of the organizers. #1792Project is an advocacy and letter-writing campaign aimed at educating people about the history of the 1,196 Black Loyalists who, in January of 1792, left Nova Scotia aboard 15 ships on […]
Up close and privileged: Nova Scotia’s “One Window” process gives mining execs seats at the table in the halls of power
On November 1, 2018, a year after Atlantic Gold produced its first gold bar at its Touquoy open pit mine in Moose River, 11 provincial public servants gathered for a two-hour meeting with four high-level representatives of the gold mining company. Two were with Nova Scotia Environment, six with Lands and Forestry, and three with […]
Sierra Leone
“Mommy, I want you to get used to it, don’t shake anyone’s hand, including me.”
Cover photo: Citizens of Freetown crowd in for water distribution but wash hands first. Photo: Theophilus Gbenda. This is the fourth in the “Living through the coronavirus crisis: stories from the African continent” series of personal stories from different countries in Africa, which provide a glimpse of how people are coping with the COVID-19 crisis, […]