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This section presents a reference source on artists, scholars, associations, events and archives that had influenced black British cultural production from 1970 to 2001. Singer Helen Folsade Adu moved to Essex, England from Nigeria at the age of four. She studied fashion at Saint Martin's College in London, England and began her vocal career singing with the band Pride, while also was working as a fashion designer and model. She then moved on to lead the group Sade and have a series of recordings. The Saga Prize was created by Marsha Hunt in 1995 to further black British writing. It ran for four years. Entrants needed a black African ancestor and a birthplace in Great Britain or the Republic of Ireland when submitting their unpublished first novel. Gita Saghal was educated in both India and Britain, and made her first major career break as a presenter and researcher for Channel 4's current affairs program Banding File. She later moved into producing both television and film, and continued to work as a researcher. Sankofa Film Collective was one of a number of black independent film collectives and workshops that emerged in the country in the 1980s and whose existence was interwoven with the cultural politics of arts funding.