African History Project

 The debate about the place of both “tradition” and “modernity” in African cultures has raged on since the 19th century. In emerging from colonialism, should African cultures retreat to the “precolonial”, embrace the “western”, or carve out for themselves …

Broadcast Tuesday 9 March 2021 In 1888, Dr Edward Blyden, the Caribbean-Liberian“father of pan-Africanism”, pioneering educator, educational theorist and politician, published a seminal collection of essays advocating, more or less, for the wholesale colonisation of Africa by Europeans - politically, …

Broadcast 1 February 2021 In this lecture and conversation, we explore the life and work of Steve Biko. In 1978, the leadership of the South African Students’ Organisation, founded by Biko, and the Black People’s Convention were put on trial …