Remembering BRAFA (British Reggae Artists Famine Appeal Team)
This short film was made to commemorate the opening of BRAFA Square in Hackney. This new public square is named in honour of the British Reggae Artists Famine Appeal team (BRAFA), an inspirational part of Hackney’s rich African and Caribbean history.
Remembering BRAFA reunites the surviving members to tell the story of how, in the mid-1980s, local reggae musician Leon Leiffer brought together leading British reggae artists to raise funds for Ethiopian famine relief.
In 1985 BRAFA brought together over 200 local people and reggae artists to record a charity single Let’s Make Africa Green Again at Hive Studio, Stoke Newington. The following year they organised a hugely successful benefit concert in Shoreditch Park, next to the site of the new public square.
All of the profits BRAFA raised went to the charity Save the Children Fund for long term development projects in famine-affected areas of Africa.
Made by Colum O'Dwyer in 2021 for Hackney Council.
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