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Latest News
During the Autumn Term, Natty Mark will be delivering courses on African and Caribbean Folklore, at The Oxford Academy and at Brasenose College. Stay tuned for more information.
#BlackHistoryMonth: Natty Mark Samuels talks to Oxford City Council about setting up the African School.  Watch here

Workshop: Celebrating the Ashanti

Email: africanheritageoxford@gmail.com to register ALL children
Natty Mark Samuels, founder of the African School in Oxford, is working with the Rumble Museum to run workshops with groups of students of African heritage, looking at African Countries, Artefacts and some of the many languages spoken in the continent.

Read more in the links below:
Rumble Museum 
Oxford Mail

Join the Rumble Museum on Friday 16th July, 4 - 

6.30pm at this community event displaying their 

beautiful collection of African artefacts. 

Natty Mark Samuels, founder of the African School,

will be running drop-in workshops about the items,

and refreshments will be provided.

Natty Mark is delivering the first

course in African Studies at
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​The Oxford Academy.

Links to Articles:
Join us in celebration of Wangari Maathai’s
birthday and her leadership of the Green Belt
​Movement – 1st April 2021 @ 6pm

About this Event: The event will be introduced by Natty

​Mark Samuels, founder of African School, followed by a

panel discussion with: Amare St. Hilaire (Postgrad

student), Zaiba Patel (History Teacher), Fatimah Kposowa

(Under Grad Student), Roger Guiste (Family support

worker), Dolcie Obhiozele (Locality community support

worker), Natty Mark Samuels, (Writer educator).



The panel discussion will be followed by Q&A from the

audience.
Click the button below to watch Journey with Natty Mark!

Ploughkeepsie's Sadie Delaney: Healing From World War Through Reading

A Conversation with the Founder of the African School in England

Sunday, February 21, 2:00 pm. Via Zoom. RSVP/register at: www.DCHSNY.org/Feb21




Natty Mark Samuels
Fancasso
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Let The Story Be Told
to Roy Midwinter: for his musicianship and his humanity.
Time is passing,
So let the story be told.
It is long overdue,
So let the story unfold:
Of the African influence on European art.
Let us start with Vlaminck,
And that bar in Argenteuil.
Where a round of drinks,
Began his African zeal:
Art of the Yoruba and the Baule.
Onward to Derain,
Who was given a Fang mask.
Enjoyed his first drink,
From the African flask:
The Fang of Gabón and Cameroon.
Matisse bought a statue,
From a curio shop.
Took it to a saloñ,
Observed the jaws that dropped:
A Vili statuette from the Congo.
Picasso saw the Vili figure,
Evening of enchantment.
He yearned to see more,
So to the Trocodero he went:
Sculpture of West and Central África.
(c) Natty Mark Samuels, 2020. African School.
Vlaminck – Maurice de Vlaminck, 20th century French artist.
Yoruba – people of south-west Nigeria.
Baule – people of central lvory Coast.
Derain – André Derain, 20th century French artist.
Matisse – Henri Matisse, 20th century French artist.
Vili – people of Democratic Repúblic of the Congo.
Picasso – Pablo Picasso, 20th century Spanish artist.
Trocodero – Parisian ethnographic museum






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ZLecture at Fusion Arts:
drive.google.com/file/d/1BpPkKgMB19p-Pb0rNDgpHim949sl3o4w/view?ts=5ef9d418
Oxfordshire Kindness Wave - Natty Mark Samuels: 
https://oxfordshirekindnesswave.org.uk/challenges/natty-mark-samuels/
Here are the first two published pieces of art by two budding artists, Year Seven students at The Oxford Academy. The first, by DESTINY WILSON, is of two Kuduo brass bowls of the Ashanti of Ghana; the other, by MILLIE SMITH, is of a Portuguese man, sculpted in ivory by an artist from Benin city. Nigeria, in the 16th century.

​Due to the Coronavirus, the Oxford Citrus Festival has been deferred
Natty Mark will be delivering a workshop on citrus at this conference
​https://www.econbot.org/home/meetings/economic-botany-2020.html
Celebrating Una 
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The Shrine of Womanhood With Natty Mark Samuels  https://www.oxford.gov.uk/events/event/636/the_shine_of_womanhood_with_natty_marks_samuels
Honouring the Herbalist Interactive Workshop: if-oxford.com/event/honouring-the-herbalists/https://if-oxford.com/event/honouring-the-herbalists/

African School in the News

Natty Mark at the BBC
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0005hhg
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0005hhg/victorian-sensations-series-1-2-decadence-and-degeneration?fbclid=IwAR027SzKANhbNfaCVjhV-XbXOgidwRaLfOeUmmJk8mO68g0VwNX31TBE260

​Natty Mark Samuels pays tribute to his mother who travelled from Jamaica in the 1950s and went on to become a nurse and served in the National Health Service.
Natty also discusses the Windrush Generation and the incredible and positive impact that people from the Caribbean have made to the National Health Service:
https://www.facebook.com/OxfordCityCouncil/videos/240573186808708/UzpfSTEwMDAwNTIyMDUxNzAyNToxMDM3MTA5NTM5ODA2Mzg3/?id=100005220517025

Oxford Mail: African School founder develops own range of Herbal Medicines:
https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/17367199.african-school-founder-develops-own-range-of-herbal-medicines/
As well as Uhuru Wholefoods, the Rootsman Products are also available at The Natural Health Store in Banbury.

Homage to Two Icons be Natty Mark Samuels:
https://www.oxford.gov.uk/events/event/526/homage_to_two_icons_by_natty_mark_samuels
IF Oxford Science Festival 2019:
01865 810016
askus@oxscifest.org 
https://if-oxford.com/