Black British music can quite easily be defined by eras. The sounds are intrinsically linked to the Black British experience and a direct reflection of the times.

Space exploration is often told as a story of nations and machines, of geopolitical rivalry, engineering audacity, and the sheer industrial might required to slip free of Earth's gravity.

By the mid-1950s, Black Americans had been living under systematic racial oppression for centuries, legally segregated, economically exploited, and violently suppressed.

Ghana declared independence on March 6th, 1957 making history to become the first of the colonised African nations to be free of British rule. Kwame Nkrumah’s triumph was a win for Africa and the Pan-African movement, and even further a field to the Caribbean.