African and Caribbean People in Britain Presentation, Discussion & Pre-order Event with Professor Hakim Adi

 We are pleased to host Professor Hakim Adi for a presentation and discussion of his latest release, African Caribbean People in Britain! Pre-order your book now or at the event to get a signed book plate from Professor Adi.

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About the Book: 

Despite the best efforts of researchers and campaigners, there remains  today a steadfast tendency to reduce the history of African and  Caribbean people in Britain to a simple story: it is one that begins in  1948 with the arrival of a single ship, the Empire Windrush, and  continues mostly apart from a distinct British history, overlapping only  on occasion amid grotesque injustice or pioneering protest.

Yet, as acclaimed historian Hakim Adi demonstrates, from the very  beginning, from the moment humans first stood on this rainy isle, there  have been African and Caribbean men and women set at Britain's heart.  Libyan legionaries patrolled Hadrian's Wall while Rome's first 'African  Emperor' died in York. In Elizabethan England, 'Black Tudors' served in  the land's most eminent households while intrepid African explorers  helped Sir Francis Drake to circumnavigate the globe. And, as Britain  became a major colonial and commercial power, it was African and  Caribbean people who led the radical struggle for freedom - a struggle  which raged throughout the twentieth century and continues today in  Black Lives Matter campaigns.

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.

About the Author:

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.