Wesley Hall celebrates blackness

BLACK HISTORY is not only the month of February; it is every day, says Pan African Commission official Wendy Barrow.
And under the direction of Barrow, one of several people assigned by the Pan African Commission tasked with teaching African studies in schools, the students of Wesley Hall Infants’ School proudly celebrated their roots yesterday, under the theme Always Celebrating Our Blackness.
In addition to mounting an exhibition, which opened last Wednesday and showcases Barbadian and African heritage through pictures of African kings and queens and artefacts like the Rediffusion box, coal pot, clothes iron, chamber pot, woven baskets, instruments, craft, books and clothing, students and teachers donned their African garb and paraded in style.
Commission tasked with teaching African studies in schools, the students of Wesley Hall Infants’ School proudly celebrated their roots yesterday, under the theme Always Celebrating Our Blackness.
“We as black persons must remember our heritage and we have to pay [respects] to our ancestors who have paved the way for us over the years,” Barrow stated.
She said the idea was to start the education and lay the foundation at this stage in the children’s lives because “if you don’t know your past, you cannot know where you’re going”.
“I hope that as they leave us and go over to the junior school, that they will become more aware of things African in their lives,” she said.