About this Event
Auntie Jean's ACM...... COME, JOIN US ..
(BHM) AFRIKAN OUR-STORY MONTH
Auntie Jean's ACM is at the Magdalen Hall. For Black History Month, which will be the 12th year, THE THREE HEAVY WEIGHT KINGS, featuring three (in my opinion) of the top Black Historians in the UK. ROBIN WALKER, TONY WARNER AND ANDREW MUHAMMAD have graced the ACM's stage for The Garvey Village annual fundraiser.
Don't miss out on the information and fun happening on Sunday, 18th October 2026, from 2:00 PM - 8 PM (GMT). It's the perfect chance to catch up, enjoy great vibes, and have a blast together. Grab your friends. Come and join us for an awesome time!
Featured on Sunday, 18th September 2026, 2 - 8 pm, is none other than
ROBIN WALKER
Robin Walker, ‘The Black History Man ’ was born in London but has also lived in Jamaica. He is an author, educator, and trainer. The Black Secret Croydon Supplementary Education Project.
He is also a best-selling author with over 16 books to his name. Amongst these is the critically acclaimed work When We Ruled, regarded as a masterpiece on the History of Africa and its people. It is the most advanced synthesis on Ancient and Medieval African history ever written by a single author. As well as the seminal Everyday Life in a West African Empire, considered by many to be the best study made on the Songhai Empire. And Black History Matters, winner of the 2020 ALCS Educational Writers Award.
He is a scholar, an author, an educator, and a trainer. He is a Black History and Heritage: Ancient, Medieval and Modern Specialist. In 2022, he co-founded the online adult education joint venture, “The Black Secret”, which teaches Black History and Wealth Education to adults.
Blacks and Science Volumes I, II and III, Blacks and Religion Volumes I and II, The Rise and Fall of Black Wall Street and the Seven Key Empowerment Lessons, The Black Musical Tradition and Early Black Literature.
He also wrote four books in collaboration with others: Everyday Life in an Early West African Empire, African Mathematics: History, Study Guide and Classroom Lessons, Black British History: Black Influences on British Culture 1948-2016, and 30 Black History Icons.
TONY WARNER
Tony Warner is a community activist and guerrilla historian. He has been exhibiting educational and empowering films about African/Caribbean history in museums, art galleries, restaurants and youth clubs since 2000. He pioneered community partnerships with and lectured at the Imperial War Museum, National Portrait Gallery, Museum of Docklands and the British Film Institute – which all led to huge increases in Black audiences.
Tony is the co-founder and chair of the African Odysseys programme. This grassroots initiative has been exhibiting African diaspora films plus Q&As on a monthly basis at the British Film Institute’s Southbank cinema complex since 2007. It is the only such programme in the country and has been attended by tens of thousands of people. He is also the founder of Black History Walks in London, a group which explores the Caribbean and African history of the capital via 12 guided walks, talks, films, courses, bus tours and river cruises. The tours have been featured in national and international media, including CNN, BBC, ITV, The Guardian, and Channel 4. Since 2011, in an ongoing collaboration with the Nubian Jak charity, he has sponsored five Black historical blue plaques across London and researched ten more.
As a management consultant specialising in diversity, he has trained various corporate, government and educational agencies, including creating a 26-week course for pupils in primary and secondary schools to improve self-esteem, behaviour and academic performance.
Tony is the author of Black History Walks in London Volume 1. The book explores the African/Caribbean presence in London over the last 2000 years. It is due to be published by Jacaranda Books in autumn 2021. He is currently working on a GCSE history book on migration and Black British Civil Rights for use in schools.
ANDREW MUHAMMAD
The Investigator is one of the United Kingdom’s leading Black History and Culture Specialists. His lively, energetic presentations are designed to bring forth history and culture to the spectator, allowing for a more enriched awareness of the universal contributions and achievements of a culturally diverse society.
Andrew was born to Jamaican parents in 1965 and was raised and educated in Walthamstow, East London. Known to this day for his humour and lively personality, Andrew joked his way through Stoney Down Primary and Beaconsfield & William Morris Secondary schools, leaving in 1982 with seriously unfunny exam results.
Since 1983, however, a change had taken place in Andrew. A Christmas gift from his older brother Michael, A Black History Book about Malcolm X, had encouraged him for the first time to read something he was not forced to by the school curriculum. The book awakened a hunger in Andrew to know about history, the history of the human race, and most particularly Black people.
He became motivated enough to achieve a National Diploma in Business Studies and became an underwriter in 1986. Almost overnight, Andrew went from a person who had to be forced to read to an avid reader who devoured everything he could lay his hands on. Through Pliny, Herodotus, Godfrey Higgins, J.A. Rogers, MacRitchie and Cheik Anta Diop, Andrew’s search for The Hidden Truth had begun.
Using the humour and lively personality that worked against him in school, Andrew began to explain what he’d learned to friends. Soon he was invited to meet friends of friends and give them the breakdown too.
He outgrew their sitting rooms pretty quickly and began to hire halls, launching The Hidden Truth Tours, which have to date taken him as far afield as Egypt.
In 1993, no longer having time for underwriting, he began instead to support himself through the tours and working in education, visiting schools and prisons and speaking on Radio. Everywhere he went, he was encouraged to put what he taught into book form, and with Free Your Mind he has done that. Andrew hopes that Free Your Mind will become as much a source of enlightenment to Black people, young and old, as the Black history book on Malcolm X was to him
AUNTIE JEAN'S AFRIKAN CULTURE MARKET (ACM)
The ACM is a Family community orintated that has been operating since 2014, on a monthly event that accurs the 3rd Sunday of each month.
Not just an ordinary market bt a market with a difference, not only can you purchase a wide range of orthentic Afrikan and Caribbean items, but also having a ShowCase Platform Hosted by a very Talanted Power Couple, Stella B. and Nat Nye, (Poetic Temple)
The ACM also have a Open Mic section and Poets called "The Garvey Village Poets" the brain child of Nate The Lyricist and each month they study a Leader Hero or Shero of Afrikan or Caribbean Our-Story (History) and recite their story's into Poetry on the Revolutionary Minds section of the ACM platform, which is also open to anyone wo would like to bring thier poetry to the platform.
We've had performances from children as young as six going right up the ages.
The Showcase Platform features the Sangoma Drummers who open and close the ACM as well as play inbetween Acts and Presentations.
Auntie Jean has run the Afrikan Cultural Market (ACM), a very successful monthly Family and community event, for over seven years. The market provides a unique space for people to browse and buy quality goods from vendors. It also provides an opportunity for people of African descent to exchange information, attend workshops and seminars on a wide variety of topics, from our history to parenting skills, to well-being, to trending social issues.
It is through her experience with the ACM that Auntie Jean identified the need for even greater support for small businesses, community groups, as well as a place to support our children, young people, the working population, and our senior citizens.
In response to demands from the monthly audiences at the Afrikan Culture Market (ACM) for a permanent platform for Information sharing, presentations, and teachings on a range of matters and issues that impact the Afrikan Cultural Community. In response to that demand, it was apparent that a physical base is needed to meet the demands.
Hence The Garvey Village concept was born; it will be an important Asset and Legacy to the Afrikan /Caribbean Community. It will provide an ‘umbrella’ of services and resources to enhance personal development through health, education, employment, training and well-being interventions, and social and cultural activities.
The Garvey Village Social Enterprise is the brainchild of Auntie Jean. The Garvey Village is a registered organisation established in 2017 (Company number 11038361)
The Garvey Village is the modern-day revolutionary Marcus Garvey ‘Black Print’ of Nation Building, Economic Unity, Self-Reliance and Collective Black Wealth, as a way of life for our generation and the next.
Garvey Village Social Enterprise aims to generate sustainable income that will create employment opportunities and provide economic empowerment for the Black, African diaspora community it serves.
The Garvey Village Social Enterprise exists to resource and enhance personal development, well-being, education, training, and employment opportunities specifically for the Black, African diaspora community. The village will be a hub, the go-to place for social and cultural activities.
The key objectives of the Garvey Village Social Enterprise are to generate sufficient income to be able to provide low-cost and some free activities to benefit the Black African diaspora community.
www.thegarveyvillage.org
Event venue & nearby stays
Magdalen Hall, Purbrook Street, London, United Kingdom
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