African-Caribbean community fun day serves up exotic flavours (From Gazette)

African-Caribbean community fun day serves up exotic flavours

11:00am Wednesday 4th November 2009 in

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THE sights and sounds of African-Caribbean life came to Colchester as a new community group staged a family fun day.

Colourful fashions, pumping music and exotic foods at the Drury Arms, in Layer Road, gave a flavour of the town’s growing African-Caribbean community.

Dominic Bascombe, spokes-man, said: “We are a new group – we’ve only been going since the summer.

“This event is to get the community out and about and meeting each other.”

The launch party also coincided with the end of Black History Month.

Mr Bascombe said: “The African-Caribbean community in Colchester is certainly growing.

“A lot is to do with the university and the Army, and there are a lot of people working in London who commute from Colchester.

“This is just a chance to get people together, and membership is open to all – you don’t have to be African-Caribbean to join.”

Exotic food was one of the event’s highlights, with Jamaican pate, saltfish, jollof rice and Nigerian egusi soup on the menu.