Growing up with Lambanana and slavery

I recently returned from a trip to Liverpool in the U.K. where I was a guest of the University. It was part of a longer tripthat included time spent with colleagues in Milton Keynes, London and Oxford.
I had not been to Liverpool previously and like most of us knew few things about the city: it is the home of the Beatles;famous Liverpool Football Club and a Scouser accent is almost impossible to understand. On the bleaker side, I alsoknow it as a city that has a troubled past: the Toxteth race riots in 1981, the Hillsborough 1989 football tragedy when96 fans died, and alcohol problems that have affected sections of the population.