David Oluwale – God Comes Home
Posted by brigshaw on March 19, 2008 – 1:01 pmDavid Oluwale arrived in Hull as a stowaway from his native Nigeria in September 1949. He served 28 days in Leeds Prison for his crime. Twenty years later, in May 1969, he was pulled out of the River Aire, at Knostrop in Leeds, where he had drowned.
At the Huddersfield Literature Festival, on March 15th, Kester Aspden spoke alongside Doreen Lawrence about his book - Nationality: Wog – The Hounding of David Oluwale
Students from Brigshaw High School interviewed Festival Director Rommi Smith about David Oluwale and about the campaign to create an appropriate memorial in Leeds:
For more information about the Memorial Appeal have a look at the david oluwale leaflet
Author Caryl Phillips will be speaking about the meaning of David’s life and death in Leeds at the West Indian Centre on the evening of Monday 31st March. ELFM plan to be there…
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