Darcus Howe’s Devil’s Advocate on Haile Selassie I: Parts 1-4
Interesting debate with Darcus Howe “Devils Advocate” dispelling rumors, inviting intelligent dialogue on Rastafari belief about His Majesty’s Divinity and the movement of repatriation. Joining the broadcast are members of the His Majesty’s family and clergy from the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church.
Darcus Howe’s Devil’s Advocate Part 2
Darcus Howe (born 26 February 1943) is a British broadcaster, writer, and civil liberties campaigner. Originally from Trinidad, Howe arrived in England intending to study law, where he joined the British Black Panthers, a group named in sympathy with the eponymous US organisation. He came to public attention in 1970 as one of the Mangrove Nine, when he marched to the police station in Notting Hill, London, to protest against police raids of the Mangrove restaurant, and again in 1981 when he organised a 20,000-strong “Black People’s March” in protest at the handling of the investigation into the New Cross Fire, in which 13 black teenagers died.
Darcus Howe’s Devil’s Advocate Part 3
He is a former editor of Race Today, and former chair of the Notting Hill Carnival. He is best known in the UK for his Black on Black series on Channel 4; his current affairs programme, Devil’s Advocate; and his work with Tariq Ali on Bandung File. His television work also includes White Tribe (2000), a look at modern Britain and its loss of “Englishness”; Slave Nation (2001); Who You Callin’ a Nigger? (2004); and Is This My Country? (2006), a search for his West Indian identity. He writes columns for New Statesman and The Voice.
