High Commissioner joins Commemorative Walk

In this the month that is dedicated to Black History, Her Excellency Glenda Morean Phillip S.C. joined with Karen Buck MP (pictured at left) and Richard Gibson, Chair of Yaa,  a black performing arts centre in West London,  and several others in a Walk Commemorating the Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and laid a wreath at the Cenotaph at Whitehall, London, on Saturday October 06, 2007.

The Walk, which was also dedicated to remembering the long black presence in Britain as well as the ancestors who died in confinement or during the journey across the Atlantic  or on the plantations, was arranged by Yaa and the Carnival Village. People, some of whom were dressed in national Caribbean colours and costumes, made joyful noises using drums, horns and the steelpan.