I'm much better looking than Geoff Schumann. The email was leaked to a very good friend of mine. She believes that Adebayo gets away with murder by trying to take a black perspective when he really loves running to white people. Why don't you email him yourself and see if he replies. He is exactly what the BBC want. Somebody who will always toe the whiteline. Maybe you should call him on his Sunday show which I find unbearable. It seems that only Marcus garvey live is prepared to take issue over this.
These trype of presenters do our cause no favours!!

Hmm ok allow me to play devils advocate, so he runs after the bluefoot...how is his behaviour detrimental to us [AFricans]?

The anxiety to try and divert attention away from Dotun Adebayo's activities is perhaps understandable, given that there are now several threads on the messageboard advertising the televison station that he has started with his wife (despite the fact that he "cannot log on") but ...

Funny talking about anxiety, and diversion, maybe MGL can explain his own anxiety to seeing reds and conspiracies under every bed.... contrary to MGL's fervent and over imaginative little mind.. People can independantly and without being 'bought' ask questions that does follow the waggonist line he espouses, where i come from its called being objective!

How can anbody be trusted to talk about any iossues on our behalf when they work for those that subjugate us. This is the same idiot who made a film called 'White girls are easy'. Until he met his wife he was more than qualified to know this. Rumour has it that a black journalist is actively trying to pursue this story but Aebayo is best friends with the Voice newspapers editor.

Why doesn't he respond to emails that arfe being sent to him or maybe you are Adebayo. At least MGL is trying to open our peoples eyes to many things. How dare you say what's the problem with running to 'Massah'. people like you should be vetted before your allowed to join positive black forums

we want black tv
a black BBC exclusively for black people no quotas
complaints will only be considered if tehy are from the black community

if not we stop paying TV liccense- not that i ever pay the bloody thing, i still dont understand what it is for so why pay?

I think the black british can follow th way of OBE,BEN TV and passion, i dont know how much those guys use for their operation but some of them have been on for several years now!

im really tired of watching british tv, and american tv is too shallow!

There is a name for a condition like yours.....Its called Paraniod Schzophrenia..maybe you ought to STICK to reality and not your imagination...

Geoff Schumann to head Life FM Breakfast Radio
Thu 19 June 2008





Community radio Life FM has signed community presenter Geoff Schumann to host its breakfast show from 30 June 2008.

The renowned comedian and radio presenter Geoff Schumann is best known for his ground breaking Schumann shuffle show on the station Choice FM. This was before it’s was sold out to Capital and now the owners of the anti-African LBC station, thereby severing all grass root community links and becoming one of Britain’s most influential promoter of the urban culture blighting the aspirations and lives of young people in the African community.

Geoff’s show was well respected for seeking to address the heart of issues faced by the African community and encouraging robust honest debate with guests and contributions from grass root organisations and members of the public.

Authentic, progressive community orientated radio

Life FM which started in 2002 was awarded a community radio licence in March 2006 making it Brent’s first full time community radio station.

The station which already hosts the successful “Business of Music” programme hosted by Kwaku from the BMC can be picked up in London on 103.6 FM or online. It joins the popular Colourful, Galaxy and Voice of Africa Radio as an authentic, progressive community orientated broadcasters

Ligali | Media | Geoff Schumann to head Life FM Breakfast Radio

He’s back and he’s black– not urban!

BY Davina Morris


THIS FEBRURY, Geoff Schumann said a fond farewell to all who listened to his Sunday evening radio talk show on BBC London.
As he announced his departure over the airwaves, many a disappointed caller rang in to express their disappointment that the outspoken radio host would no longer be delivering his no-holds-barred and often provocative views on issues concerning the black community. But as of next Monday, Schumann will be back on the FM dial– every weekday morning.


Fast-rising radio station Life FM will provide the new home for the bubbly broadcaster, known for his comedy and informed chat. Based in north-west London, Life FM currently transmits to the Brent borough. Schumann tells us more about his new radio outing.


“It’s gonna be a great breakfast show featuring talk and music, aimed at listeners between the ages of 16 and 35,40,” he explains. “The idea is for it to provide a mixture and not just deliver 24-hours of death and destruction. It’ll be similar to what I did on my show on Choice (FM) before they sacked me! Basically, I’m back and I’m very excited.”


Of course, Schumann is no stranger to breakfast radio. From 1997-2004, he co-hosted leading black music station Choice FM’s weekday morning show with fellow presenter Martin Jay, as well as hosting the station’s popular Saturday morning talk show, The Schumann Shuffle. The latter saw Schumann providing debate and discussion on a variety of issues concerning the black community, which proved popular with many listeners.


It was therefore a huge surprise to many when, in 2004, Schumann was sacked from Choice, following the sale of the station to radio group GCap Media (owners of radio stations Capital, Classic FM and XFM). But with GCap looking to put their own, more commercial stamp on their newly acquired station, Schumann’s services became surplus to requirements. Did he ever hold any resentment towards the Choice DJs who survived the cull?


“Not at all,” he says. “People have mortgages and bills to pay and nobody owed me anything. I certainly didn’t expect anybody to walk out in protest because I’d been sacked! Martin Jay knew that Choice were gonna sack me and he didn’t say a word to me, but at the end of the day, he looked out for himself. I haven’t spoken to him in four years. What is there to say? He looked out for himself and I’m sure many would do the same.”


“At the end of the day, I was dismissed because my style was deemed not right for the station’s future plans. And if you listen to Choice now, that decision was obviously right! I assume, I was deemed too controversial, but I make no apologies for that. The thing with me is that I’m not afraid to call myself black. I’m black— I’m not urban.”


With the more recent news that GCap has now been sold to rival company Global Radio (owners of radio stations Heart, Galaxy and LBC), the future of Choice FM, perhaps, hangs in the balance once again.


Following the news of this sale, rumours soon emerged that Choice may have its name and music policy changed by the new owners. This, of course, sparked concern amongst media insiders, who feared for the future of Choice– Britain’s only legal, FM station dedicated to black music.


“Until we have our own Alan Sugars or British versions of Oprah Winfrey, others will continue to dictate the future of our brands,” says Schumann. “We need big investors who will set up media outlets that allow us to set our own template and our own agenda.”


While his departure from BBC London– where he worked from 2004-2008– was a mutual decision between himself and the bosses, Schumann is disappointed at the Beeb’s treatment of black shows. He considers the current state of black radio.


“For some institutions, like the BBC, the concept of black radio is: put it on late at night and dictate what the broadcasters are allowed to say. For others, like Choice, it’s about keeping the community singing and dancing. We’re versatile people, but unfortunately, other people from outside our community have been allowed to decide what is best for us.”


“When I was on Choice, my show– a talk show– had an audience that was higher than any of the station’s other shows, and yet I was told, by a white man, that my style wouldn’t fit in with the station’s future plans. Generally speaking, a radio show with high ratings is usually the show that a station will keep. But when you want to create the impression that all black people want to do is listen to music, you sack the host that does the talking!”


He continues: “Similarly, at the BBC, the head of the black unit was a white woman, who I had to go to to get permission to talk about black issues. There were other black staff there who would agree with you privately that it was odd for a white woman to be in charge of the black shows, but of course, they’d say nothing out loud.


“This is much of the problem. As a community, too often we’re being defined through the eyes of other people and to me, that’s not right. That’s why I’m excited about Life FM. The station is owned by a black woman and features broadcasters who are passionate about the condition of our people.”


No surprise then, that Schumann feels at home at Life FM. Renowned for his straight-talking, unapologetic style of broadcasting and his passion for addressing real issues facing our community, it’s not hard to see why he may be dismissed as angry or radical by those who can do without the ‘controversy’ of an outspoken black broadcaster. Was Schumann never tempted to ‘tow the line’ and talk about issues that suit the mainstream audience?


“I can’t do that,” he says. “I acknowledge that in all business, a certain level of commercialism needs to be taken into account, in order to bring in revenue. But out of a 24-hour day, I don’t see why a few of those hours can’t be dedicated to informed chat.”


“I have to face people in our community; people who do good work to try and make a difference in our community. I couldn’t face those people if I simply towed the line and gave in to the idea of playing music 24-7 and having mindless debates about Facebook or how wotless black men are. A lot of the problems in our community stem from a lack of African identity. Once we understand who and what we once were, then no other cultural group will be able to come in and divide us.”


Catch Geoff Schumann from June 30, Monday-Friday from 7-10am on Life 106.3FM



Voice Online :: He’s back and he’s black– not urban!

good on geoff

My Mentor: Dotun Adebayo on Bob Shennan (click here for more)

Frankly speaking this is not anything to be indignant, shocked or upset about.
As was stated by Kunjufu (long time brother tis I from the EPN days).

Having worked in the BBC this is normal behaviour what is interesting is the leaked e-mail from Dotun.

He’s E-mail is symptomatic of the problem that afflicts Black people namely MONEY OVER PRINICPAL.

Let me explain further, Dotun undoubtedly gave Schumann a good hard shove to the exit door.
He saved his own bacon and I use that word BACON deliberately (go figure).

I have long argued that you can’t say what you want unless you are in control of medium.
Namely, you can’t be seen to be discussing issues which effect Black people without offending white people.
By default they will take offence.

So unless and when Black people are ready to support a station or radio station that is directed at us for us.
Unless we are ready identify the modern day uncle toms and aunt Gemima’s of which there are an increasing amount, who fill the Black quotas.
We are going to see these cycles continue.

What is patently evident to me is the Black people in positions of influence and power general do not know how to make a principled stand over something, for fear of offending there pay masters or there mortgage company.

Schumann is no firebrand Black Nationalist rather a symptom of the economic reality.


PS GLAD TO BE BACK AFTER A FIVER YEAR BREAK

Who would have believed 'Uncle' Dotun was a teddy boy when he was younger. He said it himself live on air.

That man needs to change his name pretty quick...what a sucker!!
In a few years he would be lamenting how the BBC hasn't addressed the issue of black representation in trying to win back the lost 'black love'