Black History Month:A dive into African History

The Africa Club is delighted to celebrate the Black History month by hosting Prof. Hakim Adi to speak about his perspective on BHM context and importance, and on African history and what it can tell us looking into the future, with a focus on economic drivers.

Prof. Hakim Adi is Professor of the History of Africa and the African Diaspora at the University of Chichester where he will launch the world’s first online Masters by Research programme on the History of Africa and the African Diaspora in January 2018.

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. He is also (with C. Bressey) the editor of Belonging in Europe – The African Diaspora and Work (London: Routledge, 2010). His most recent book is Pan-Africanism and Communism: The Communist International, Africa and the Diaspora, 1919-1939 (Africa World Press, 2013).

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. He has just completed a history of Pan-Africanism to be followed by a book on the history of African and Caribbean people in Britain that will be published by Penguin. www.hakimadi.org

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