Bhagya Munishankar “Dundee is a nice place. I have lived in Dundee more than anywhere else and my heart is in Dundee” Born in Mysore, India in 1948, Sowbhagya (known as Bhagya) went to various Indian schools, moving with her father who worked as a Registrar of Cooperative Societies and had to move to different postings. At the age of 16, she started her medical career in Mysore Medical College. Graduating as a doctor with an MBBS degree in 1971, she worked as a junior house o

On a cold day in January 2026 we paid a visit to Shop Africana, a wholesale African food business tucked away in an industrial unit on Horsewater Wynd near the Hawkhill. We were given a warm and friendly greeting by its enthusiastic owner, Mr Oluwafemi Oke, known as Femi, who had agreed to share his remarkable story with us. Femi Oke Born in Nigeria in 1969, Femi was one of six children and he grew up with a natural flair for building interpersonal relationships. His mother w

“Dundee will have a Chinese restaurant” was the bold claim of a Courier headline on 8 November 1960, after the Corporation Planning...

It was a popular sight in Dundee in the early 1970s - vans painted with the logo “Okhai the Noo are here for you!” That was just the...