Get your facts right before playing the media
03 July 2010
Recently, I was angered on hearing from a number of people by phone and on social networking sites that Munira Mirza (Advisor to the Mayor of London on Arts and Culture) had proclaimed on national TV a funding cut by the Mayor for Black History Month. On defence she went on to say that City Hall continued to fund a monument to the abolition of slavery. Interesting that the Oxford educated aide fail to realise that the monument was to the enslaved Africans – and not the abolition, and that the funds promised by City Hall in 2007 had still not been paid. Glad to see that the point was picked up by Dave Hill of the Guardian and was referred to on his blog.
Contributed by: Cliff Perreira
Born in Mombasa, Kenya in 1960 a third generation Kenyan Goan, Clifford Pereira came to Britain in 1971.
He was educated in Bexleyheath and worked in geophysics in Britain, Saudi Arabia and Oman (1980-1986). Cliff left the Oil industry to complete a BA(Hon), majoring in Geography with Asian Studies at the University of Ulster, Northern Ireland in 1989. After university he worked in the Travel industry based in London. Since 2000 Cliff has worked on several history projects for the National Maritime Museum (2002-2004 & 2009), Bexley Local Studies (2004-2005) and most recently as Guest Curator and consultant on a number of projects for the Royal Geographical Society (RGS). He has been a consultant to the Bexley Heritage Trust, Heritage Lottery Fund, the Mayor’s Commission on African and Asian Heritage, Royal Dockyard Chatham and to the UNESCO Slave Route project.
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