Black In Britain - A reference file

Walé Adeyemi - fashion designer.

Jennette Arnold - is the chair of the Greater London Authority. She was elected in 2004 as a Labour candidate for North East London. Following a Jennette Arnold - The London Assembley

successful career in nursing, she worked as an industrial relations officer and as regional director of services and special adviser (Equalities) to the general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing. Jennette was elected to Islington Borough Council in 1994 and held a number of key positions, including a term as deputy mayor. In May 2000 she was elected to the London Assembly as a London-wide Assembly Member.

Robert André - is a London born artist turned writer and film maker. He began his career illustrating medical diagrams and books. He later turned his skills to Robert André - filmmaker

writing and drawing cartoons and comic strips. In 1985 he created the satirical cartoon strip 'Sunstroke' for the New Chronicle newspaper, running for five years before he dramatically, and controversially, killed all the characters which the Chronicle refused to print. André resigned. In 1996 Andre founded Pirate Multimedia with friend and fellow cinephile Paul Sealy, in an attempt to make movies that no one else would. "The philosophy of Pirate is to make it simple, cheap, and easy to access," he said. At this writing they have made a dozen or so short films as well as two feature length movies: The Best Policy (2003) and Sister Sinner (2004). Andre lives in southeast London.

Emmanuel Asare - Cleaner and tabloid art critic. Remember the cleaner who added weight to the theory that 'art is crap'. In 2001 he literally threw out a piece by Saatchi favourite Damien Hirst. The piece 'Painting by Numbers' (stool, table, full ashtray, empty cigarette boxes, wine bottle and paint tins) looked ominously like a pile of rubbish to Asare.
"It didn't look like art to me," he's reported to have said afterwards.