English Violence Hits African Migrants

Until August 8, Peckham was a south London district known for bustling African beauty salons, Asian markets and as the setting of a 1980s British sitcom. Then violence struck.
English Violence Brings Terror to African Migrants

PHOTO ESSAYS: English Violence Brings Terror to African Migrants

Nigerian-born Tony Bello points to where the violence began near his shop in Peckham, South London. Credit: Radio Netherlands Worldwide

  • Africa:   Africans In Frontline of English Violence

    RNW Africa, 11 August 2011

    "It started there," said Tony Bello as he pointed at a Money Shop pawnbroker on Rye Lane, in Peckham, South London. He then motioned across the street to the charred remains of his… Read more »

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