Where are you from? London What does your name mean? Abundance and also a river in paradise How do you identify? As a Black British Nigerian Muslim Did you ever […]
Kawthar Alli: An interview with a Nigerian Muslimah
Faizah Olu: My experience as a Black Muslim
I was asked to write an article on either how I think we can solve anti-blackness in the Muslim community or write about my experiences as a Black Muslim. I immediately shuddered […]
Rashid Nix: On Caribbean Muslims and anti-blackness across the Ummah
‘An Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab, nor does a non-Arab have any superiority over an Arab; a white has no superiority over a black, nor does a black have any […]
Naima Hosni: Thoughts on Moroccan supremacy and the legacy of our Prophet (peace be upon him)
My first recollection of Islam was with my family who are of a Muslim background- you grow up in that environment and you acquire whatever you are being taught at that time. […]
Iqbaal Abdi: Somalia, Colourism and Arab supremacy
I was born and raised in London but I’m from Greater Somalia. I identify as black when in the UK and the western world, however when I go abroad to neighbouring African […]
Luloah Oum Ngwem: a report on a racist interaction within the Muslim Community
One day I was on a street at Cranves-Sale in France. It’s an area with mixed groups of people but sometimes there are only Muslims. So I was at the bus stop […]
Mariam Ali: “Do You Really Fast?”: An Experience of Anti-Blackness From One Non-Hijabi Black Female Muslim Perspective
This question was posed to me by a middle-aged Arab-Moroccan woman whose full identity I will not disclose. This is not due to the sheer abundance of my benevolence or an attempt […]
The Need for a UK Black Muslim Forum
Bismillah. “Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today” Malcolm X It has come to my awareness that the UK Muslim community is […]
