BRAFA
British Reggae Artists Famine Appeal (BRAFA) A new square at the entrance to Britannia Leisure Centre in Hackney has named BRAFA Square after a fascinating, yet forgotten, part of Hackney’s African Caribbean history. The name reveals the story of the British Reggae Artists Famine Appeal (BRAFA) which became Hackney’s answer to Live Aid in 1985. When Band Aid was set up in response to the Ethiopian famine in 1984, […]
