Hello from Britain!

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 ‘Race Today’ Anthology Jean Toomer, Cane Touré, Who’s 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 

🚨SPECIAL EPISODE🚨 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

🚨SPECIAL EPISODE🚨 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, ‘White Women and the Campaign against Lynching’, 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 People’s 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, ‘Savage times come again’: Morel, Wells, and the African Soldier, c.1885-1920’, English Studies in Africa: a journal of the humanities (2016) -https://bit.ly/3ztSohm Music Recommendation: Miriam Makeba- A Piece of Ground

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, ‘Political Blackness And British Asians’ Sociology (1994) Lola Young, ‘What is Black British Feminism?’ 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

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 “Speak Out” 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 Women’s Liberation Music Archive Matumbi- Empire Road

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 Women’s 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

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 

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 Jr’s 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, ‘This is Staffordshire not Alabama’: Racial Geographies of Commonwealth Immigration in Early 1960s Britain, (2014)The Journal of Imperial and Colonial History 710 Hannah Elias, ‘John Collins, Martin Luther King, Jr., and transnational network s of protest and resistance in the Church of England during the 1960s’ 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

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, ‘Brown Girl in the Ring’- 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 ‘Desmond’s’ 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

🚨SPECIAL EPISODE🚨 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 Gérmain and Silyane Larcher  Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism Édouard 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 Archimède 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 Sé Sel Médikaman Nou Ni

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

In this episode Seun Matiluko (@seunspeakss) tells us about women in the West African Students Union, an organisation set up to ensure ‘a sense of unity, co-operation and self-help among West Africans in the United Kingdom and Eire’.   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