Adam writes… A visit to one of London’s newer squares.
BRAFA Square in Hackney was dedicated in 2021 to commemorate British Reggae Artists Famine Appeal, a supergroup of Black musicians – including Leon Leiffer of The Blackstones (who founded the project), Janet Kay, Aswad and Dennis Brown – who released a charity single in 1985 to raise money for Ethiopian famine relief.
As the iron, street-mounted commemorative plaques remind us that BRAFA was, in part, a response to the lack of Black artists invited to take part in Band Aid.
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