Based in Britain for more than 50 years, he was one of the developers of the , is a political campaigner and was part of the team behind the birth of Britain's first national black newspaper.
In April 2010 Higgins' friends announced that they had set up a campaign to help raise the £20,000 he needed for teeth implants, to enable him to eat properly again and put on weight.
In 1975, Higgins' son was born.
We devised a magazine-style format programme for broadcast in November 1974.