The Struggle to Teach the History of Africa and the Diaspora

Speaker Hakim Adi

and a Report from Venezuela by Jesus Rojas

Sunday 3 May 2026 at 2pm London time [on Zoom]
All welcome, but you will need to register in advance:
https://ucl.zoom.us/meeting/register/aKZN-1OmRMeE5QyE-80h2g

Professor Adi was the first historian of African heritage to become a professor of history in Britain when he was appointed Professor of the History of Africa and the African Diaspora at the University of Chichester in 2015. In 2018 he launched the world’s first online MRes in the History of Africa and the African Diaspora which trained many students including six currently engaged in PhD research.

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Asad Rehman at CLS Sunday

Asad Rehman is Chief Executive of Friends of the Earth UK (FoE)

Asad speaks about the way forward for the environmental and antiracist movement

The meeting also heard from the Cuban Ambassador

Claudia Jones annual commemoration

Sunday 22 February from 1.00-2.00.

Beside Claudia’s gravestone, to the left of Karl Marx’s grave in Highgate Cemetery, Swain’s Lane, London N6 6PJ. Nearest Underground at Archway station

Speakers include:

  • Gawain Little general secretary General Federation of Trade Unions.
  • Pragna Patel founder of Southall Black Sisters,
  • Frank Murray Caribbean Labour Solidarity
  • Dr Claire Holder former director of the Notting Hill Carnival
  • Rob Griffiths former general secretary Communist Party of Britain,
  • Georgina Andrews general secretary Young Communist League.