STOLEN FROM AFRICVILLE

The story of “Stolen From Africville” outlines the rise and fall of the historic Black community of Africville Nova Scotia. .Africville was a peaceful and thriving community whose roots can be traced back to the mid 1700’s and the historic Underground Railroad.

However, under the guise of “development”, the Nova Scotia government bulldozed the land in 1969. The people of Africville did not volunteer to go; they owned their land and paid their taxes as citizens of Canada, even though the provincial government did not provided them with paved roads or even running water. A thriving community was born from struggle, grew over hundreds of years, and was erased in an instant. In 2004 the United Nations conducted an assessment of this tragic injustice and recommended reparations for the Africville community. To this day nothing has been done.