Chief Executive Officer of The African Diaspora Institute of Cultural Exchange & Historical Research, Inc (CEHR) and historian, Natasha Bynoe gave an engaging presentation at Westbury Primary School on Tuesday to class three students. This session was a part of the Black History activities at the school.
Historian Trevor Marshall showing the children of Westbury Primary School the art of African limbo dancing much to their delight on Tuesday.
Although a little late, teachers at Westbury Primary School are celebrating Black History Month under the theme “We are Africans Telling Our Story,” as they are focused on educating the Barbadian youth about their ancestry.
Class three teacher at Westbury Primary School, Cherrylene Young spoke to the media about the school’s activities on Tuesday.
Young said that the staff members are looking at Africa before slavery because they wanted to build the self-esteem of the children at the urban school. She explained the school children were visited by a forensic scientist, uplift ministries members – who brought artefacts and crafts to exhibit – and a local weaver.
On Tuesday, Chief Executive Officer of The African Diaspora Institute of Cultural Exchange & Historical Research, Inc (CEHR) and historian, Natasha Bynoe interacted with the children teaching them about African History. She noted that the children are creative and she believes that this will spark solutions for the future.
Chief Archivist at the Barbados Archives Department, Ingrid Thompson said that her team intended to teach the children about the Archives Department, about their Barbadian history and family history research. She noted that one of the Archives Department’s guests was veteran historian, Trevor Marshall who gave an energetic presentation on limbo dancing and its connections to Africa.
Thompson stated that it is their duty to make sure that the country has documents that persons can look back and see what happened in Barbados. She noted the efforts of the Department to go into the community and help people to work together and to do research. (KB)