African and Caribbean People in Britain
25 September 2022, 2.00pm
£12.00
African and Caribbean People in Britain
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The event
Professor Hakim Adi challenges the steadfast tendency to present the history of African and Caribbean people in Britain as something distinct and discrete from the wider narrative of British history.
In this talk, he will demonstrate how the story of African and Caribbean people in Britain does not begin in 1948 with the arrival of the Empire Windrush, but rather it is a story as old British history itself. From the very beginning, there have been African and Caribbean men and women in Britain.
Charting a course through British history, with an unobscured view of the actions of African and Caribbean people, Adi reveals how much our greatest collective achievements – universal suffrage, our victory over fascism, the forging of the NHS – owe to these men and women, and how, in understanding our history in these terms, we are more able to fully understand our present moment.
The speaker
Hakim Adi is Professor of the History of Africa and the African Diaspora at the University of Chichester.
The first historian of African heritage to become a professor of history in Britain, he has been researching and writing about the history of African and Caribbean people in Britain for decades. He is the founder and consultant historian of the Young Historians Project.
