African History In Britain: Those Who Built The Foundation

Monday Dec. 6 2021, 6-9pm

African History In Britain: Those Who Built The Foundation
Whilst African history, global and/or British, has been taught for a long time within community spaces, there’s been in recent times a marked increase in African and British African courses being offered in higher education institutions. History consultant Kwaku’s mash up video highlights and celebrates the community and academic historians and the texts that documented British African history before Black (African) History Month in the UK in 1987.
It is also an opportunity to highlight and celebrate those who currently writing, revealing, championing, delivering, or teaching British African history within community and academic spaces.

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Produced by BTWSC/African Histories Revisited in association with BBM/BMC (BritishBlackMusic.com/Black Music Congress), TAOBQ (The African Or Black Question), RE:IMI (Race Equality: In Music Industry) and Sprit Of AJY87-88.

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