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Ras Kwame
Ras Kwame is a British musician, record producer, radio DJ and presenter of Ghanaian heritage.[1]
Biography
[edit]Ras Kwame was born in Hammersmith, London, and at the age of 11 moved to Ghana.[2] He returned to London after doing his A-levels, and studied economics at City of London Polytechnic.[2]
He started in the music industry as a club DJ playing hip hop, R&B and reggae in the early 1990s. He then moved on to promoting for Kiss100's groundbreaking Starlight Club night and the Mean Fiddler’s Subterranea Club, bringing over talent from the US and promoting local talent. The Subterranea gigs saw Kwame take control of the turntables for artists such as Gang Starr, Public Enemy, Wu Tang Clan, London Posse and the Fugees. During that time, Ras also undertook remix work for Chanté Moore, George McCrae and The 49ers.
Kwame founded West London's Sugar Shack record shop in 1993 and from 1994 to 2000 he had formed Baby Shack Recordings and his UK garage production outfit M-Dubs. As a garage producer, Kwame made several innovative underground club anthems for the flourishing UKG scene, such as "Over Here" featuring Ritchie Dan, "Bump and Grind" featuring Lady Saw and the underground smash "Body Killin" by The Vincent Alvis Proj
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Published on: Reviews in History ( https://reviews.history.ac.uk)
Ending British Rule in Africa: Writers in a Common Cause
| Review Number: | 841 |
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| Publish Date: | Thursday, 31 December, 2009 |
| Author: | Carol Polsgrove |
| ISBN: | 9780719077678 |
| Date of Publication: | 2009 |
| Price: | £60.00 |
| Pages: | 186pp. |
| Publisher: | Manchester University Press |
| Publisher URL: | |
| Place of Publication: | Manchester |
| Reviewer: | Marika Sherwood |
This excellent book is about some of the writers – mainly those living in Europe from the 1930s till the 1960s – whose writings were either wholly or partly about the ‘ending of British rule in Africa’. The main writer dealt with is George Padmore; the others are Jomo Kenyatta (while he lived in the UK), C. L. R. James, Peter Abrahams, Ras T. Makonnen, Richard Wright, and then Kwame Nkrumah’s autobiography.
Padmore devoted his life to political activism and writing in the cause of freedom for colonised peoples. At first via the Comintern, then when he resigned from the Communist Party in 1934, in the UK, working with other activists. Those of his colleagues discussed are the other writers: his fellow Trinidadian James (then beginning to work on his book on the Haitian revolution); Jomo Kenyatta (th