Dickson Tarnongo is crowdfunding his education to secure a PhD

Coventry asylum seeker with disability launches crowdfunder to raise fees for his PhD study

The struggle of a Coventry-based, disabled and wheelchair-bound asylum seeker to raise tuition fees for his PhD in the UK is continuing with no end in sight. After applying for admission to five UK universities, asylum seeker Dickson Tarnongo was offered a place by a Midlands-based university. The university gave him an offer with a…

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Selbin Kabote is a Zimbabwean journalist based in Birmingham

Zimbabwean journalist from Birmingham selected as judge for global media awards ceremony

A Birmingham-based journalist who originally travelled to the UK from Zimbabwe for a better life has been selected to be a judge for the prestigious One World Media Awards this year. Selbin Kabote, who works for charity Migrant Voice as a Media Lab Project Worker, is one of four judges in the ‘Refugee Reporting’ category at the prestigious annual event.

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Eugene Nizeyimana

African entrepreneurs to gather at Birmingham networking conference championing black business

A special business networking conference targeting members of the city’s African community is to be held in Birmingham this Friday. As African entrepreneurs in Birmingham gear themselves up for the One Africa Network business in Creative Industry event to be held at on Friday the 31st of January at the Clayton Hotel in Birmingham, concern…

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Denise James Lensi Photography

Photojournalist to lead photography skills workshop for migrants and refugees to share their stories

One of the West Midland’s few black female photojournalists is to lead a special photography skills workshop in Wolverhampton next week to inspire and empower refugees and migrants to share their stories. Denise Maxwell, who founded and pioneered Lensi Photography, is one of very few female photojournalists of black and minority ethnic origin working within the…

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