African and Caribbean history and heritage season 2025
Download the BRAFA teaching resources40 years ago Hackney’s answer to Live Aid released the charity single ‘Let’s Make Africa Green Again’. The British Reggae Artists Famine Appeal (BRAFA) team was made up of musicians with African and Caribbean heritage and recorded the single in Stoke Newington. BRAFA went on to stage a charity concert in Shoreditch Park in 1986 and raised thousands of pounds for Ethiopian famine relief.
To commemorate the 40th anniversary and celebrate this important local history story, Hackney Museum have partnered with the Hackney Music Service to create a range of learning resources inspired by BRAFA as part of Hackney Council’s Black History Season. These resources are cross-curricular and aimed to support non-music specialists.
Hackney Museum will be closing for redevelopment in late 2025. During this closure period, we will not be running our usual schools programme at Hackney Museum that every autumn is part of Hackney Council’s Black History Season. Although we will not be offering in-person sessions at Hackney Museum, we are providing an alternative learning offer with resources focussing on stories from Hackney’s African and/or Caribbean heritage communities.
In 2025, we have worked in partnership with the Hackney Music Service to develop teaching resources for KS2 & KS3 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the BRAFA record release (The British Reggae Artists Famine Appeal who raised thousands of pounds for Ethiopian famine relief). Sign up to our schools’ newsletter to stay up to date.