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Compared to the rest of Britain, Londonfeatures an above-average percentage of ethnic minorities, which make up almost20% of the population (4.2% Caribbean, 6.6% Indian, 7.0% African).[1]However, only 4% of London’s approximately 900 Blue Plaques are dedicated topeople of Asian or Black descent. The charity English Heritage, which manages the Blue Plaque Scheme, thereforeset up a working group to augment Blue Plaques of people of Black, Asian, andminority ethnic heritage in 2016.[2]Blue plaques are awarded to people whose “achievements should have made an exceptional impact in terms of public recognition or their achievements deserve national recognition” and have been dead for at least 20 years. They must have spent a significant period of their lives in London and the building they lived or worked in should have survived to the present day. [3]Out of the existing Blue Plaques&#160;commemorating influential people of colour several have been dedicated to London based influential politicians and activists that represented minorities during the "London Moment". This gives testament to the diverse background of London´s political scene during the Second World War.The Blue Plaque of Jomo Kenyatta at 95 Cambridge Street in Pimlico.Jomo Kenyatta was the leader of the Kenyanindependence movement and, later, the first president of the Republic of Kenya.Living in London from 1929 to 1946, Kenyatta frequently moved homes and changedhis addresses. However, his Blue Plaque is mounted where he lived the longest –from 1933 to 1937 – at 95 Cambridge Street in Pimlico. During his time inLondon, Kenyatta acted as the secretary of the Kikuyu Central Association(KCA), which was London`s mouthpiece of the indigenous population of Kenya. Embodyingthis role, Kenyatta openly and vehemently criticized British presence in Kenya.In 1940, the British authorities officially banned the KCA as an anti-colonialtrouble spot. However, Kenyatta remained in correspondence with the formerleaders of the Association based in East Africa during the Second World War andrepresented their interests as their delegate to the Pan-African Congress inManchester in 1945.[3]The Blue Plaque of Marcus Garvey at 53 Talgarth Road, Hammersmith.Marcus Garvey founded the Pan-African group"Universal Negro Improvement Association" (UNIA) in 1914 in hisnative Jamaica. Garvey expressed pride in his dark skin colour and in hisorigins. During his time as an activist in the U.S., he called onAfrican-Americans and Caribbeans of African origin to return to Africa as theirancestral continent. The UNIA was especially popular on the East Coast of theUSA and in the Caribbean. In its heyday in the early 1920s, it counted morethan 100,000 members. After serving a prison sentence for embezzlement, Garveywas deported to Jamaica in 1927 but moved to London in 1935. In Britain, henever rose again to the popularity he previously held as president of the UNIAin the USA, but he was a frequent speaker at Hyde Park Corner in London. His oftencritical relationship to other black leaders, in particular to the exiledEthiopian King Haile Selassie, complicated his standing in the community. HisBlue Plaque is at 53 Talgarth Road in Hammersmith, where he lived until hisdeath in 1940.[4]The Blue Plaque of Harold Moody at 164 Queens Road, Peckham.The Jamaican physician Harold Moody founded andpresided over the League of Coloured Peoples from 1933 to 1947. Theorganisation worked against the discrimination of black people and for “harmonybetween the races”[5]. Inresponse to Winston Churchill's proclamation that the right toself-determination, set out in the Atlantic Charter, did not apply to theBritish colonies, Moody published his own Charter for the Coloured Peoples in1943. In it, he demanded an end to colour discrimination in the British Empireand self-government for the African territories at the earliest possibility.Moody´s Blue Plaque is at 164 Queens Road inPeckham, where he lived from 1922 until his death in 1964.[6]Kwame Nkrumah was a prominent leader of the independence movement in the British colony Gold Coast and, later, served as the first Prime Minister of the subsequently independent country of Ghana. He lived in London from 1945 to 1947, where he co-organised the fifth Pan-African Congress in Manchester. During his time in London, he became a spokesperson for several groups that were criticizing the British Empire, such as the West African Students Union or the International African Service Bureau, where he worked closely with Kenyatta.[7]His Blue Plaque is at 60 Burghley Road in Kentish Town, where he lived from 1945 to 1947. The Blue Plaque of Kwame Nkrumah at 60 Burghley Road, Kentish Town.[1] Office for National Statistics:Ethnicity and National Identity in England and Wales, London, 2011:https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/culturalidentity/ethnicity/articles/ethnicityandnationalidentityinenglandandwales/2012-12-11 (28.10.2019).[2] English Heritage: New Diversity Initiative for London Blue Plaques, as Footballer Laure Cunningham Honoured, 21.09.2016, https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/about-us/search-news/diversity-blue-plaques/ (28.10.2019).[3] English Heritage: Propose a Blue Plaque, https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/propose-a-plaque/ (30.10.2019) [3] Cf. Adi, Hakim: Pan-Africanism: A History, London, 2018,chapter 6: From Ethiopia to Manchester.[4] Cf. Adi, Hakim, Sherwood, Marika: Pan-African History: Political Figures fromAfrica and the Diaspora since 1787, London, 2003, chapter on Marcus Garvey, p. 71-81.[5] Rush, Anne Spry: Imperial Identity in Colonial Minds: HaroldMoody and the League of Coloured Peoples, 1931-50, in: Twentieth Century British History, Vol. 13, No. 4, 2002, p. 356-393,p. 365.[6] Cf. Rush, Anne Spry: Imperial Identity.[7] Cf. Sherwood, Marika: Kwame Nkrumah and the Dawn of the Cold War:The West African National Secretariat,1945-1948, London, 2019, chapter 2: Campaignsfor Independence, Unity and Pan-Africanism in the U.K., the U.S.A and Africa,1930s-1945.