Pan-Africanism: A History. Book Launch and Discussion
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Venue:
Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street
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Birkbeck Geography Department is pleased to welcome Professor Hakim Adi and a distinguished panel of African descendant scholars including Professor Robert Beckford, Professor Patricia Daley, Dr Jan Etienne and Dr William Ackah to discuss Professor Adi’s new book Pan-Africanism: A History (London: Bloomsbury, 2018) Please join us and contribute to an evening of lively discussion and intellectual enrichment. Copies of the book will be available for a reduced price of £15.
Prof. Hakim Adi is Professor of the History of Africa and the African Diaspora at the University of Chichester. In January 2018, he launched the world’s first online Masters by Research programme on the History of Africa and the African Diaspora and he is the founder and consultant historian of the Young Historians Project http://younghistoriansproject.org/
Hakim is the author of West Africans in Britain 1900-60: Nationalism, Pan-Africanism and Communism (Lawrence and Wishart, 1998); (with M. Sherwood) The 1945 Manchester Pan-African Congress Revisited (New Beacon, 1995) and Pan-African History: Political Figures from Africa and the Diaspora since 1787 (Routledge, 2003). His most recent books are Pan-Africanism and Communism: The Communist International, Africa and the Diaspora, 1919-1939 (Africa World Press, 2013) and Pan-Africanism: A History (Bloomsbury Press, 2018). He is currently editing a book of essays, New Perspectives on Black British History (Zed, forthcoming) and writing a book on the history of African and Caribbean people in Britain to be published by Penguin. Hakim has appeared in many documentary films, on TV and on radio and has written widely on the history of Africa and the African Diaspora, including three history books for children.
Patricia Daley is pan-African feminist, the Professor of the Human Geography of Africa at Oxford University, and the Helen Morag Fellow in Human Geography and Vice-Principal of Jesus College, Oxford.
Robert Beckford is the professor of Religion and Culture in the African diaspora in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, at Canterbury Christ Church University in Canterbury, Kent.
Dr Jan Etienne is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Geography at Birkbeck, University of London. She is Chair of the Womanism, Activism and Higher Education Research Network and co-chair of the Decolonising the Curriculum Working Group in the Research Centre for Social Change and Transformation in Higher Education at Birkbeck.
William Ackah is Lecturer in the Department of Geography and Programme Director for Community Development and Development and Globalisation at Birkbeck University of London and chair of the Transatlantic Roundtable on Religion and Race.
Contact name:
William Ackah
Contact phone:
020 3073 8354