“Wi Likkle, But Wi Tallawah”: Northampton Town Blacktivism + Matta Fancanta Caribbean Youth, 1970-95

This talk ‘Wi Likkle But Wi Tallawah’ – small but sturdy – was originally done as part of an event for ‪@SchAdvStudy‬ which includes a Q&A session (if you want the Q&A go to their channel. In this talk, I positions Northampton(shire) as a point of Black consciousness in the town and in the rural, centring the experiences of Black Caribbean youth by birth and descent.

First coined in the 1970s, the term Matta Fancanta means “come guard yourself against self-destruction”. Known locally as MFM or Movement, Matta Fancanta defined a generation including through roots reggae, sports teams and professional development. The story of MFM is important as it inspired youth movements in other areas including Leicester, Oxford, Manchester and London.

This is one story of a wider post-war history of Caribbean Northamptonshire - a history based on 100+ oral history testimonies and limited secondary sources, including local news media, collated as part of a PhD project entitled ‘Northampton(shire) is the Place for Me: Creative Responses to Provincial England's Caribbean Diaspora, 1948-1985’.

Further Sources / Media - http://tinyurl.com/4m7dh4ah
Lecture + Q&A -    • “Wi Likkle, But Wi Tallawah”: Northam...  

Timestamps

My Family - 05:15
Lee's Journey - 15:40
Youth Clubs - 19:20
West Indian Parents - 24:50
The Squat - 30:10
Windrush + Anti-Rasta - 33:05
Demolition - 42:34
In the Wake - 51:12
The Other Windrush - 54:00
NN Legacies - 56:55