African and Caribbean People in Britain: A History

A major new history of Britain that will transform our understanding of this country's past 'I've waited so long so read a comprehensively researched book about Black history on this island. This is it: a journey of discovery and a truly exciting and important work' Zainab Abbas 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.

History

Adi, Hakim

Europe

Allen Lane.

Pan-African History brings together Pan-Africanist thinkers and activists from the Anglophone and Francophone worlds of the past two-hundred years. Included are well-known figures such as Malcolm X, W.E.B. Du Bois, Kwame Nkrumah, and Martin Delany, and the authors' original research on lesser-known figures such as Constance Cummings-John and Dusé Mohammed Ali reveals exciting new aspects of Pan-African activism.

Pan-African History: Political Figures from Africa and the Diaspora since 1787

Sherwood, Marika

Africa

Routledge

Brings together Pan-Africanist thinkers and activists from the Anglophone and Francophone worlds of the past two-hundred years.

Nelson Mandela

WAYLAND PUBLISHERS LTD

African and Caribbean Communities in Britain

A biography of the South African leader discusses his childhood, education, career, imprisonment, and election as president.

Nelson Mandela: Father of Freedom (Famous Lives)

Children's Books

Geography & Cultures

Heinemann/Raintree

Pan-African History: Political Figures from Africa and the Diaspora Since 1787

Pan-Africanism: A History

The first survey of the Pan-African movement this century, this book provides a history of the individuals and organisations that have sought the unity of all those of African origin as the basis for advancement and liberation. Initially an idea and movement that took root among the African Diaspora, in more recent times Pan-Africanism has been embodied in the African Union, the organisation of African states which includes the entire African Diaspora as its 'sixth region'.
Hakim Adi covers many of the key political figures of the 20th century, including Du Bois, Garvey, Malcolm X, Nkrumah and Gaddafi, as well as Pan-African culture expression from Négritude to the wearing of the Afro hair style and the music of Bob Marley.

Bloomsbury Academic

Discover the fascinating history of African migration, from thousands of years ago to the 21st Century. Newly updated, African Migrations explores the history of migration from Africa, from the forced migrations of slavery and the experiences of life in the Americas to the political and economic migrations of more recent times. Experiences are brought to life with case studies of children from the 20th and 21st centuries. Written by British historian and academic Hakim Adi, Profressor of the History of Africa and the African diaspora at the University of Chichester, this book is essential reading for children aged 11+ and anyone interested in learning about African migrations., ,

African Migrations

Wayland

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African and Caribbean People in Britain: A History

Pan-African History: Political Figures from Africa and the Diaspora since 1787

Pan-African History: Political Figures from Africa and the Diaspora since 1787

Nelson Mandela

African and Caribbean Communities in Britain

Nelson Mandela: Father of Freedom (Famous Lives)

Pan-African History: Political Figures from Africa and the Diaspora Since 1787

Pan-Africanism: A History

Pan-Africanism: A History

African Migrations