Read the AHA Today blog posts on our podcast:

Part 1: Spotlight on Africa Past and Present

Part 2: APP podcast Q&A with Peter Alegi

Marika Sherwood (senior research fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London) on the history of the African diaspora in Britain. She discusses aspects of her 2007 book After Abolition: Britain and the Slave Trade Since 1807, the 1945 Pan Africanist Congress in Manchester, and Pan-African biographies.  Sherwood concludes by noting the inadequate treatment of black history in the UK school curriculum.

 

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