BLACK SOCIAL HISTORY : AFRO-CANADIAN " FAITH NOLAN " IS A CANADIAN SOCIAL ACTIVIST, FOLK AND JAZZ SINGER, SONGWRITER AND GUITARIST OF MIXED AFRICAN, MI KMAG AND IRISH HERITAGE : GOES INTO THE " HALL OF BLACK GENIUS "

                        BLACK                SOCIAL              HISTORY                                                                                                                                                                                                     Faith Nolan (born 1957 in Halifax, Nova Scotia) is a Canadian social activist folk and jazz singer-songwriter and guitarist of mixedAfrican, Mi'kmaq and Irish heritage. As stated on her website, "her music is her political work, a politics firmly rooted in her beingworking class, a woman, African Canadian and queer." Nolan is openly lesbian.^[1]

Part of her activist work has been documenting the social, political and cultural history of Africville, a historic African Canadiansettlement in Maritime Canada. She currently resides in Toronto, Canada.

Discography

• Africville (1986)
• Sistership (1987)
• Freedom to Love (1989)
• Hard to Imagine (1996)
• Faith Nolan: A Compilation 1986-1996 (1996)
• Overloaded, Fed Up and On the Line (2002)
• Let it Shine (2002)
• Faith Nolan Live (2003)
• Day Done Broke (2006)
• One World (2008)
• Mannish Gal (2008)