Save the MRes 2024

Shakara Ɔkyeame on the necessity to support the MRes, PhD students and Professor Hakim Adi.

A plan to scrap an African history course by a UK university has been widely criticised. The University of Chichester intends to downscale courses it runs on African heritage. Prof. Hakim Adi, who has been spearheading the African history curriculum at the institution, risks losing his position. He speaks to Dudizile Ramela about this. Tune into Newzroom Afrika DStv channel 405 for more.

The Dorothy Kuya Memorial Lecture as part of Slavery Remembrance Day 2023 was delivered by Professor Hakim Adi. He is the first historian of African heritage to become a professor of history in Britain, he has been researching and writing about the history of African and Caribbean people in Britain for decades. He is the founder and consultant historian of the Young Historians Project. For his lecture he addressed the theme of combatting racism through transformative education. https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/slavery-remembrance-day/archive

Professor Hakim Adi is the first historian of African heritage to become a professor of history in Britain. A renowned academic, researcher, thesis supervisor and writer, he is also founder of the Young Historians Project, a non-profit organisation that encourages and teaches young historians of African and Caribbean heritage in Britain. Since 2015, Professor Adi taught Master's by Research (MRes) and PhD courses in the History of Africa and the African Diaspora at Chichester University. A pioneer in the field, the MRes is not only unique within the UK but attracts students globally, having produced 6 Ph.D. students within the institution alone. In July 2023 Chichester University announced it was closing the MRes course. Join the campaign https://www.historymatters.online/save-mres-campaign

Students, Gillian Benneh and A.S. Francis, talk about the awful situation at Chichester.

An open discussion between Esther Stanford-Xosei and Kofi Mawuli on the the news that Professor Hakim Adi’s post is at risk of termination and that all recruitment to the unique Masters by Research (MRes), History of Africa and the African Diaspora has been suspended! Link below to support, https://twitter.com/SavetheMRes/status/1692151019247955991?t=MmzZlw19sVb_7kqA-erZOA&s=08 🎥 instagran.com/ubuntuduniatv Supported by: Maangamizi Educational Trust Glocal Afrikan Reparations Forum of London in association with Aya Afrikan Learning and the Praler network Join us and find out more: 📺 https://www.xrisn.earth/bcan