Barbara Makeda Blake Hannah

Barbara Makeda Blake Hannah (born 5 June 1941) is a Jamaican author and journalist known for her promotion of Rastafari culture and history. Makeda currently serves as executive director of the Jamaica Film Academy, which organises the Reggae Film Festival,[1] and gives her name to the Press Gazette′s Barbara Blake-Hannah prize.[2]

She became the first black television presenter in the United Kingdom in 1968 when she appeared as an interviewer and news presenter on Thames Television's Today programme,[3][4] and was also the first Rastafarian senator in the Parliament of Jamaica, between 1984 and 1987.[5]

References
  1. Barbara Makeda Blake Hannah, "Reggae Film Festival 2011" in United Reggae (Saint-Clément-de-Rivière, 2011)
  2. "Barbara Blake-Hannah prize launched as Press Gazette bids to improve British Journalism Awards diversity" in Press Gazette (London, 2013)
  3. Barbara Makeda Blake Hannah, "It wasn't Trevor or Moira - I was the first black British TV presenter" in The Guardian (London, 2013)
  4. Bree Johnson-Obeng, "Barbara Blake Hannah - the first black female journalist on UK TV" in Sky News (London, 2019)
  5. Leahcim Semaj, "From Peace and Love to 'Fyah Bun': Did Rastafari Lose its Way?" in Caribbean Quarterly: A Journal of Caribbean Culture (Abingdon: Taylor & Francis, 2013).
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