Interview with George Asibe (b.1954).

George Asibe was born in Ghana and came to Milton Keynes in 1985. He talks of his parents, education and life in Ghana. He taught and worked in university adminstration in Ghana and Nigeria, and he describes how he came to decide on a move to the UK and to Milton Keynes. His wife and daughter joined him in 1986, they first lived with a friend, buying a house in Downs Barn in 1988. Their relatives and friends in MK made it easy to settle in, together with their church membership (MK Covenant Fellowship) and fellow Ghanaians; later he became an ordained minister for Rema International Church, which he and his wife set up in 1999.

He comments on the racial prejudice they have encountered: ‘people do it out of ignorance, not knowing that maybe you’ve been hurt’. Talking of the changes he has seen in MK, he notes that there is more cultural diversity now. He sees that accommodation is becoming more of a problem. He sees Britain as his home now, the place where he should be as a Church minister. He enjoys all the green space in MK, particularly Campbell Park.