An Open Letter of Solidarity from Academics, Heritage and Information Professionals

Professor Jane Longmore

Vice Chancellor

University of Chichester,

College Lane,

Chichester,

West Sussex, PO19 6PE

Subject: MRes History of Africa and the African Diaspora - Proposed Termination/Redundancy

Dear Professor Longmore,

We are writing to add our voices to the overwhelming tide of support for Professor Hakim Adi, his current and prospective master’s students and those whose doctoral research he currently supervises due to his unanimously recognised expertise in his field of study.

Like the thousands of people, nationally and internationally, who have signed the petition to stop the University of Chichester’s proposed termination of the MRes History of Africa and the African Diaspora and challenge Professor Adi’s imminent redundancy, we are deeply troubled by recent events. How can a course which has undeniably contributed so much to a deeper and more nuanced understanding of both British and world history be shut down overnight with no consultation with either students or Professor Adi himself? How can Professor Adi, whose lifelong contribution to research in his field is internationally renowned, be facing redundancy? There are serious questions to be answered surrounding the University’s rationale for these actions. .

As heritage professionals, information professionals and academics concerned with the research, preservation and sharing of history, our work is aimed at ensuring that as many people as possible are able to access and benefit from the multiple intersecting stories which make up our collective history. In doing this work, it is particularly important that those narratives historically underrepresented within our fields are brought to the fore in order to ensure a more complete, and more accessible historical record - one in which we can all see ourselves.

Your institution’s own Equality and Diversity Policy claims a passion for ‘widening educational opportunity, appreciating its contribution to social justice’ and recognition of ‘the richness in diversity’. It also professes to take a ‘proactive’ approach to diversity, recognising ‘the breadth of experience and intellectual resources that people from diverse backgrounds…bring to our community as we know that diversity strengthens the University’. Given these claims it is hard to understand how the University of Chichester sees it fit to shut down a course for which there is no comparable programme of study in the UK. This programme and the impact it has generated has been a tremendous asset to the university's research environment and was featured prominently in the REF2021 research environment statement, and would certainly be a key part of a REF2028 exercise that will be placing more emphasis on 'people and culture' and the development of diverse research cultures.

Further, it seems incompatible with your institution's own stated values that Professor Adi, the first person of African heritage in Britain to become a Professor of History and the only Professor of the History of Africa and the African Diaspora in Britain can now be facing redundancy given his stellar contribution to African and African diaspora history, both through his own research and the groundbreaking space he has created for those wishing to research in this area themselves.

Professor Adi’s tireless work at the University of Chichester has created a pathway for historians from underrepresented communities, and interested others, at a time when both the heritage and academic research sectors bemoan the lack of diversity in the constituencies entering professional practice. Not only has Professor Adi founded and taught a masters course in this area which has gone on to generate several doctoral candidates, but he has also consistently promoted the inclusion of the fruits of this growing body of work in the wider educational curriculum - an action which is broadly recognised as both necessary and long overdue.

The massive groundswell of support in the few days since this news has gone public tells us what we all already know - Professor Adi’s contribution, that of his course and those he supervises are of inestimable value to our professional fields and wider society. It must be preserved and further strengthened at all costs.

The University of Chichester has stated that the reason for the proposed termination/redundancy is a financial one. The (MRes) History of Africa and the African Diaspora has been labelled as ‘not viable as the cost of delivery outweighed the income from fees received’. As professionals working in this field, we urge the university to look closer to home - at their own efforts to properly market the course - before removing it, and with it the potential for further research and learning in this area.

Indeed, while many of us here undersigned are aware of the course from Professor Adi’s own communications with us, or that of his students, we struggle to think of any occasion where targeted marketing of this unique educational offer has been championed by the university itself. As people working in history and heritage every day, we ask why our own professional networks have not been better utilised by the University of Chichester to market the course. We are saddened that the institution with primary responsibility for this failure sees fit to penalise Professor Adi, his students and wider society, rather than taking measures to address this itself through the marketing channels that are readily available to it.

We understand that the University of Chichester has never before expressed dissatisfaction with recruitment to the MRes programme, but thinks it proper to give Professor Adi two weeks in which to propose a solution whilst simultaneously stopping any new enrolment on the course. We also understand that other courses with similar intake figures have not been threatened with termination in the way that (MRes) History of Africa and the African diaspora has. Why is it that Professor Adi’s course has been targeted?

The MRes course has attracted students from Africa, the Caribbean, North America, and Hong Kong as well as nationally, has produced outstanding novel research, including at doctoral level, and through its alumni has facilitated the founding of the Open Access, History Matters Journal - landmark achievements for the relatively short time that it has been running.

It is important to note that this academic research and the work of Archives, Libraries and Museums are closely intertwined. How can institutions such as these hope to properly understand how their work and collections relate to African and African diaspora histories without the availability of research like this? The University of Chichester’s untenable proposal is a threat not simply to academic historical research, but to professional heritage practice more broadly.

We stand in solidarity with Professor Adi, his students and all who support him to demand that the University of Chichester reverse its ill-thought out decision, and instead work hard to ensure that the unparalleled achievements of the MRes in the History of Africa and the African Diaspora with Professor Adi at its helm are strengthened and supported to continue to flourish.

Signed,

• Angelina Osborne (Historian and Heritage consultant)

• Dr Etienne Joseph (Archives Manager, Hackney Archives/Co-Founder Decolonising the Archive)

• Dr. Eleni Liarou (Historian , Birkbeck- University of London)

• Tayo Agunbiade (Independent Scholar)

• Lydia Julien (Librarian)

• Kelly Foster (Public Historian)

• Paul Reid (Heritage Professional)

• Marie Johnson (Systemic Family Therapist)

• Maboula Soumahoro (Associate Professor)

• Bea Freeman (Black History Researcher)

• Dr Vivian Latinwo-Olajide

• Dr Nathan Richards (Assistant Professor of History)

• Professor Michael A. Gomez

• Aleja Taddesse (Senior Librarian Assistant (Open Access))

• Dr Charisse Burden-Stelly (Associate Professor of African American Studies)

• Professor Nemata Blyden

• Anthony Ballas (Lecturer, University of Colorado at Denver, Dept. of English)

• Dr Kimberly F. Monroe (Assistant Professor of Africana Studies & History)

• Dr. Eric Essono Tsimi (Assistant Professor - The City University of New York)

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• Rinaldo Walcott (Professor, Africana and American Studies)

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• UK)

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• Jamaica)

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• The Netherlands)

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• London Borough Hackney)

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• M Chotai

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• Oakland CA - USA)

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• University of Edinburgh)

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• Jane Andrews (Professor of Education, UK)

• David Andress (Professor of Modern History, University of Portsmouth, UK)

• Gordon Dueck (Assistant Professor, Queen's University, Canada)

• Adnan Husain (Associate Professor, History, and Director, School of Religion, Queen’s University Kingston, Ontario, Canada)

• June Purvis (Professor Emerita, University of Portsmouth, UK)

• Adebayo Adewusi (Researcher/Historian(IFRA-NIGERIA))

• Kathy Cusack

• Dr L. Sartain (Senior Lecturer in American History, University of Portsmouth, UK)

• Mariangela Alejandro Cortez (Alumna, School of History, Classics, and Archaeology, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland)

• Sam Harman (Lecturer & Film maker. University of Westminster, London, UK)

• Professor Richard Wistreich (Professor of Music History, United Kingdom)