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Thank you so much for learning along with me, @Seunspeakss, over the past year! Hello From Britain! will be back with Season 2 soon.
Connect with the Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BritainHello
Summer Reads:
Jordanna Bailkin, The Afterlife of Empire
Paul Field, Robin Bunce, Leila Hassan and Margaret Peacock, eds., Here To Stay Here To Fight: A âRace Todayâ Anthology
Jean Toomer, Cane
TourĂ©, Whoâs Afraid of Post-Blackness?
Richard Wright, Native Son
Online Archive to check out:
Warwick Digital Collection on Britain, Empire and Migration: https://cdm21047.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/bem
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In this episode Seun Matiluko (@seunspeakss) tells us about how Pan-African political thought developed in late 20th century Britain.
Connect with the Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BritainHello
Further resources:
6th Pan African Congress: https://snccdigital.org/events/6th-pan-african-congress/
BLF: https://www.blackhistorymonth.org.uk/article/listings/region/online-event/the-black-liberation-front-qa/
Linda Bellos interview: https://www.rainbowjews.com/equality-champion-linda-bellos-proud-to-be-an-african-jewish-lesbian-feminist/
Organisation of African Unity: https://www.sahistory.org.za/article/organisation-african-unity-oau, https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/organization-african-unity-1963-2002/
Resolutions of the 7th Pan-African Congress: https://d.lib.msu.edu/ajps/13
UK ARM Repossession Order: https://i2.wp.com/berniegrantarchive.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/ephemera_repossession_large.jpg
UNESCO, African women, Pan-Africanism and African renaissance: https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000235230
W.E.B. Du Bois' Appeal To The World!: https://www.aclu.org/appeal-world
Young Historian's Project on the BLF:
https://www.younghistoriansproject.org/blf-exhibition
https://www.younghistoriansproject.org/blf-film-we-are-our-own-liberators
Music Recommendation:
Grand Kalle, Independance Cha-Cha
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In this episode Seun Matiluko (@seunspeakss) tells us about how Pan-African political thought developed in early 20th century Britain.
Connect with the Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BritainHello
Further resources:
Archive of W.E.B. Du Bois documents: https://credo.library.umass.edu/view/collection/mums312
Horrible Histories Video on Sons of Africa: https://fb.watch/esaGWASaib/
Short documentary on Amy Ashwood Garvey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa4SqjgGWNc
W.E.B. Du Bois 1900 speech: https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/1900-w-e-b-du-bois-nations-world/
Frances Willard, Jane Addams, Jesse Daniel Ames, âWhite Women and the Campaign against Lynchingâ, Counterpoints: The Gender of Racial Politics and Violence in America: Lynching, Prison Rape, & The Crisis of Masculinity (2001)
Hakim Adi, Pan-Africanism: A History (Bloomsbury 2018)
Marika Sherwood Lecture on the 1945 Pan-African Congress for Manchester Metropolitan University- https://mmutube.mmu.ac.uk/media/1_fpebqm06
Peopleâs History Museum on the 1945 Pan-African Congress- https://phm.org.uk/blogposts/africa-speaks-in-manchester-pan-africanism-manchester-and-a-collection-gem/
Peter Fryer, Staying Power: The History of Black People in Britain (Pluto Press 2018)
RM Burroughs, âSavage times come againâ: Morel, Wells, and the African Soldier, c.1885-1920â, English Studies in Africa: a journal of the humanities (2016) -https://bit.ly/3ztSohm
Music Recommendation:
Miriam Makeba- A Piece of Ground
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In this episode Seun Matiluko (@seunspeakss) tells us about women in Britain and the Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent (1978-1982).
Connect with the Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BritainHello
Further resources:
Marius Turda, Maria Sophia Quine, Historicising Race (2018)
Beverley Bryan, Suzanne Scafe, and Stella Dadzie The Heart of the Race (1985)
Antony Appiah, 'The Uncompleted Argument: Du Bois and the Illusion of Race' Critical Inquiry (1985)
Tariq Modood, âPolitical Blackness And British Asiansâ Sociology (1994)
Lola Young, âWhat is Black British Feminism?â Women: a cultural review (2000)
Overview of OWAAD and FOWAAD:
https://feminismandthemedia.co.uk/stories/fowaad-speak-out/
British Library Interview with OWAAD co-founders Stella Dadzie:
https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/stella-dadzie-owaad
OWAAD Draft Constitution:
https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/xgHiqAbfrKfOTg?childAssetId=zQFO0itCXex7hA&hl=en
Combahee River Collective Statement:
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/combahee-river-collective-statement-1977/
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on identity politics and the Combahee River Collective:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfaNJ7ktIqA
An example of a contemporary supplementary school:
https://www.phoenixagendaschool.com/saturdayschool
Anti-Apartheid movement newsletters and photos featuring women:
https://www.aamarchives.org/who-was-involved/women-s-groups.html#click-here-to-read-the-anti-apartheid-women-s-newsletter
Film recommendation:
Bhaji on the Beach
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNr2FlU8l1Y
Music recommendation:
The Specials-Nelson Mandela
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In this episode Seun Matiluko (@seunspeakss) tells us about the Brixton Black Women's Group, which formed in 1973 and disbanded around 1985.
Further resources:
Overview of the UK Women's Liberation Movement:
https://www.bl.uk/sisterhood/articles/womens-liberation-a-national-movement
On Gerlin Bean:
https://theblackcurriculum.com/blog/black-women-activists-in-british-history-womens-history-month-2022
On Shrew magazine:
https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/shrew-magazine-1976
On Olive Morris:
https://artsandculture.google.com/story/my-heart-will-always-be-in-brixton-olive-morris-black-cultural-archives/XwWReH6wADe8xA?hl=en
On Beverley Bryan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=aL2mV66uCBU&app=desktop
On Liz Obi:
https://rememberolivemorris.wordpress.com/2007/09/28/121-railton-road/
https://boroughphotos.org/lambeth/olive-morris-squatters-handbook/
On Zainab Abbas:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000tj50/black-power-a-british-story-of-resistance
On the Brixton Black Women's Group:
https://www.bl.uk/womens-rights/articles/black-women-activists-in-britain#footnote6
https://pasttenseblog.wordpress.com/2020/05/13/spotlight-on-londons-radical-herstory-the-brixton-black-womens-group/
On virginity testing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuWNi20xGhc
https://edition.cnn.com/2022/02/03/uk/virginity-testing-hymenoplasty-ban-uk-asequals-intl-cmd/index.html
https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/1979-02-19/debates/8b08facc-47af-41eb-b071-cce935bbda0b/ImmigrationProcedures
âSpeak Outâ Issues 1-4:
https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/8wGd1OOMcK7W-w?childAssetId=_QGRGCwfYMh0mA&hl=en
Film Recommendations:
Miss World 1970: Beauty Queens and Bedlam (2020, BBC)
Misbehaviour (2020, Pathé, BFI and BBC Films) starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Keira Knightley
Cedar Wood & Silk- https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-cedar-wood-silk-1995-online
Music Recommendation:
The Womenâs Liberation Music Archive
Matumbi- Empire Road
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In this episode Seun Matiluko (@seunspeakss) tells us about women in Britain and Black Power in the mid-late 20th-century.
Connect with the Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BritainHello(@BritainHello)
Further resources:
Anne-Marie Angelo, 'The Black Panthers in London, 1967-72: A Diasporic Struggle Navigates the Atlantic' (2009) Radical History Review
Robin Bunce and Paul Field, 'Obi B. Egbuna, C.L.R. James and the Birth of Black Power in Britain: Black Radicalism in Britain 1967-72' (2011) Twentieth Century British History
Kate Quinn, Black Power in the Caribbean (University Press of Florida 2014)
Beverley Bryan, Stella Dadzie and Suzanne Scafe, Heart of the Race: Black Womenâs Lives in Britain (Verso 2018)
Black Panther Party 10-Point Program: https://www.ucpress.edu/blog/25139/the-black-panther-partys-ten-point-program/
A 1966 Stokely Carmichael speech on Black Power: https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/speeches-african-american-history/1966-stokely-carmichael-black-power/
Recent Altheia Jones-Lecointe Interview: https://organisedyouth.tumblr.com/tagged/audio
A Guardian Long-Read on Altheia Jones-Lecointe and the British Black Panther Movement: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/sep/09/altheia-jones-lecointe-the-black-panther-who-became-a-mangrove-nine-hero
Sewell Commission Report: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-report-of-the-commission-on-race-and-ethnic-disparities
Macpherson Inquiry: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-stephen-lawrence-inquiry
Film Recommendation: Judas and the Black Messiah, Small Axe
Music Recommendation: Stevie Wonder- Black Man
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In this episode Seun Matiluko (@Seunspeakss) chats with Simmone Ahiaku, friend to the podcast and an award-winning changemaker, campaigner and environmental activist.
For an in depth workshop on climate colonialism sign up here to join a workshop created by Climate in Colour: https://climateincolour.com/courses/5ff3481cf2efbe33825535f1
Further resources:
Article by Sean F Britt:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/25762257
Black Women and Homelessness:
https://www.bigissue.com/latest/black-people-are-more-than-three-times-as-likely-to-experience-homelessness/
https://england.shelter.org.uk/media/press_release/black_people_are_more_than_three_times_as_likely_to_experience_homelessness
https://www.trustforlondon.org.uk/publications/roof-not-home-housing-experiences-black-and-minoritised-women-survivors-gender-based-violence-london/
Climate Justice:
https://shado-mag.com/?s=climate+justice
https://www.nus.org.uk/campaigns/decolonise-education/mixed-media-library
Ogoni Nine:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-55330945
https://unpo.org/article/13664
https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/role-women-struggle-environmental-justice-ogoni
https://csw.ucla.edu/2017/03/23/ogoni-women-nigeria-us-migrating-movement/
Political Assasinations:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-57459055
Space Colonisation:
https://www.businessinsider.com/the-limits-of-jeff-bezos-winged-space-utopia-2021-7
Film Recommendation:
Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century
Music Recommendation:
Willow Smith, 21st Century Girl
Simmone's Book Recommendations:
Octavia Butler, The Parable of the Sower
Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism v The Climate
Ike Okonta and Oronto Douglas, Where Vultures Feast: Shell, Human Rights and Oil
Kathryn Yusoff, A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None
Nick Buxton and Ben Hayes, The Secure and the Dispossessed: How the Military and Corporations Are Shaping a Climate-Changed World
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In this episode Seun Matiluko (@seunspeakss) tells us about women in the Campaign Against Racial Discrimination (CARD)
Connect with the Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BritainHello (@BritainHello)
Further resources:
On Martin Luther King Jrâs trip to Ghana:
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/ghana-trip
https://qz.com/africa/1813868/how-ghanas-independence-day-inspired-martin-luther-king-jr/
On Martin Luther King Jr's visit to the UK:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/dec/12/martin-luther-king-dr-uk-visit-1948
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/dec/02/martin-luther-king-in-london-1964-reflections-on-a-landmark-visit
https://www.stpauls.co.uk/history-collections/history/history-highlights/martin-luther-king
On Ranjana Ash: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/nov/19/ranjana-ash
On Jocelyn Barrow: https://www.voice-online.co.uk/news/uk-news/2020/04/11/tributes-pour-in-to-dame-jocelyn-barrow-a-true-champion-of-racial-equality/
On David Pitt: https://archives.blog.parliament.uk/2020/10/02/the-noble-david-pitt-from-grenada-to-camden/
On Marion Glean: https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/marion-patrick-jones/m0134r9_v?hl=en
On Lord Lester: https://justice.org.uk/lord-lester-herne-hill-qc/
On Learie Constantine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7PL8yIlpE4&list=PLilBYVf0P9abmND3VntYaqacbVSMTRxpz
Nicholas Deakin on CARD- https://www.runnymedetrust.org/uploads/audio/Nicholas_Deakin_on_CARD.mp3
Elizabeth Buettner, âThis is Staffordshire not Alabamaâ: Racial Geographies of Commonwealth Immigration in Early 1960s Britain, (2014)The Journal of Imperial and Colonial History 710
Hannah Elias, âJohn Collins, Martin Luther King, Jr., and transnational network s of protest and resistance in the Church of England during the 1960sâ in Tom Rodger, Phillip Williamson and Matthew Grimley, eds, The Church of England and British Politics since 1900 (Boydell and Brewer 2020)
Kennetta Hammond Perry, London is the Place for Me: Black Britons, Citizenship and the Politics of Race (Oxford University Press 2016)
Legal cases:
R v Governing Body of JFS [2009] UKSC 15: https://www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKSC/2009/15.html
Essop v Home Office [2017] UKSC 27: https://www.supremecourt.uk/cases/docs/uksc-2015-0161-judgment.pdf
Griggs v Duke Power Co 401 US 424 (1971): https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar_case?case=8655598674229196978&q=Griggs+v+Duke+Power+Co.+401+U.S.+424+(1971)+&hl=en&as_sdt=2006
See also Mandla v Dowell Lee [1983] 1 All ER 1062 for an illustration of why not having religion as a protected characteristic was problematic in the Race Relations Acts: http://www.hrcr.org/safrica/equality/Mandla_DowellLee.htm
Nachova v Bulgaria: https://bit.ly/2UcKfMl
Music recommendation:
Shirley Bassey: As I Love You
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In this episode Seun Matiluko (@seunspeakss) tells us about women who supported the Movement for Colonial Freedom.
Connect with the Podcast on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BritainHello
Listen to 'The History Hotline' here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3GSokwfMxMMb9JcZ6Ij96c?si=GPCzGvr-Ro2RF7sw0ysKEQ
Further Resources:
Carole Boyce-Davies, Left of Karl Marx: The Political Life of Black Communist Claudia Jones (Duke University Press 2008)
Brief history of the MCF and Details of MCF Archive- https://blogs.soas.ac.uk/archives/2014/05/01/the-movement-for-colonial-freedom-liberation-archive/
Nadia Cattouse, âBrown Girl in the Ringâ- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHCPgtze4yg
Carmen Munroe winning the 2016 Edric Connor Inspiration Award- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5B_pgrQdIQ
Interview with âDesmondâsâ creator Trix Worrell alongside Carmen Munroe, Ram John Holder and Robbie Gee- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKX7u3srcxk
Eslanda Robeson, An African Journey- https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.79694
Map of Eslanda Robeson's travels in Africa- http://digitizingdiaspora.com/neatline/show/eslandarobesontravels
Claudia Jones, 'An End To The Neglect of the Problems of the Negro Woman!' - https://libcom.org/files/claudiajones.pdf
Claudia Jones leading a march in the UK- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvr1h11IEnY&t=87s
Brief history of Claudia Jones-https://www.bl.uk/windrush/articles/claudia-jones-rebel-heart#footnote24
Histories of Black British Protest- https://theconversation.com/bearing-witness-to-the-history-of-black-lives-in-britain-140776
The MCF's/Liberation's website-https://liberationorg.co.uk/
Film Recommendation: United States vs Billie Holliday
Music Recommendations: Fela Kuti- Zombie and Africa-Centre of the World
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In this episode Seun Matiluko (@seunspeakss) tells us about Black women organisers in France and in the French circum-Caribbean in the 20th century.
The audio clip heard in the introduction is from an interview with Aimé Césaire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6tBrVDNW1s
Further resources:
Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel, Black French Women and the Struggle for Equality, 1848-2016 , eds., Felix GĂ©rmain and Silyane Larcher
Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism
Ădouard Glissant, Caribbean Discourse: Selected Essays
Beckett in Black and Red: The Translations for Nancy Cunard's Negro
LSE Doctoral Thesis by Dr Grace Carrington: http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3977/1/Carrington__non-sovereign-states-era-of-decolonisation.pdf
Lecture by Tracy Sharpley-Whiting lecture on Americans in France- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCuUhl1F7oo
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/latamcaribbean/2018/04/19/fifty-years-after-the-controversial-may-67-trial-france-continues-to-criminalise-activists-in-guadeloupe/
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/04/guiana-protests-colonization-france-racism
https://www.humanite.fr/node/495531 - meeting between Angela Davis and Gerty ArchimĂšde
https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/eboue-madame-eugenie-tell-1891-1972/
https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/vialle-jeanne-jane-1906-1953/
https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/negritude-movement/
https://www.blackpast.org/global-african-history/paulette-nardal-1896-1985/
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/may/02/france-colonial-exhibition-human-zoo
Music:
Kassav', Zouk-la SĂ© Sel MĂ©dikaman Nou Ni
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In this episode Seun Matiluko (@seunspeakss) tells us about women in the Leage of Coloured Peoples, an organisation set up to:
1. To promote and protect the social, educational, economic and political interests of its members.
2. To interest members in the welfare of Coloured Peoples in all parts of the world.
3. To improve relations between the races.
4.To cooperate and affiliate with organizations sympathetic to Coloured People.
Further resources:
Imaobong Umoren, Race, Women Internationalists: Activist-Intellectuals and Global Freedom Struggles (University of California Press 2018)
https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/mh-55-1656.pdf
https://player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/watch-springtime-in-an-english-village-1944-online
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0008nwt
https://danceinteractive.jacobspillow.org/themes-essays/african-diaspora/asadata-dafora/
https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Constance_Agatha_Cummings_John.html?id=ZJwPAQAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y
https://www.iamhistory.co.uk/history/2020/11/8/black-women-and-and-their-service-to-wwi
https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/the-keys-january-to-march-1935-issue
https://www.aaihs.org/una-marson/
https://jenniferjsnow.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/una-marson.pdf
https://politicaleducation.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Interview-with-Aime-Cesaire.pdf
Music recommendation:
W.C. Handy St. Louis Blues
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In this episode Seun Matiluko (@seunspeakss) tells us about women in the West African Students Union, an organisation set up to ensure âa sense of unity, co-operation and self-help among West Africans in the United Kingdom and Eireâ.
Further resources:
Marc Matera, Black London:The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization In The Twentieth Century (University of California Press 2015)
https://archive.cartoons.ac.uk/record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=LSE3344
https://www.marxists.org/archive/padmore/1947/pan-african-congress/ch06.htm
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/we%E2%80%99ve-not-had-good-leaders-%E2%80%94-chief-mrs-opeolu-solanke-ogunbiyi/
http://wasuproject.org.uk/history-of-wasu/
https://qz.com/africa/1979035/how-west-african-students-in-london-fought-for-african-independence/
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/jul/13/black-british-history-school-curriculum-england
https://gal-dem.com/lavinya-stennett-community-cover-unity-solidarity-rest-the-black-curriculum-education/
Music recommendation: King Sunny Ade, Merciful God
