The Troubles we’ve seen Northern Ireland saw an upsurge in racism as more black families settled, but things are starting to improve by Vic Motune
WHEN TOLU Ogunware was growing up in Belfast, there were few people who looked like him in the neighbourhood.
“It’s quite a friendly place when you compare it to other parts of the UK” he says. “It’s a minority of people who might share racist beliefs but that minority is often the loudest.”Now an emerging film director Ogunware, 27, decided he wanted to explore the experiences of other black people who, like him, had grown up in Northern Ireland.
According to the latest census figures 3.4% of Northern Ireland’s 1.9 million population are ethnic minorities, four times the proportion in 2001. Among them was Sibongile Mude whose family came to Northern Ireland from Zimbabwe in the early 2000s. Born in a town just outside Belfast to a White mother and African American father he witnessed how the country is changing. But progress has come with new problems.
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