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A young man arrived in Liverpool from Nigeria around 1915, expecting to find the streets paved with gold. The Dingle area of Toxteth he settled in was instead depressed, poor, racist, and to his mind, ungodly. In 1931, he founded the African Churches Mission, in which he not only conducted services but also fed and clothed the poor of the community, and housed seamen and others denied accommodation due to the colour of their skin. He also provided a home for the unwanted children of local white women left behind by their fathers, African American servicemen who returned home when World War II ended. As a radical supporter of pro-independence and anti-racist movements in the African Diaspora, he was regarded as troublesome by the Establishment, and therefore received no state or voluntary support, not even from the Anti-Slavery Society. Nevertheless, he and his mission soldiered on for over thirty years, until the dilapidated building was finally demolished by the Council in 1964. Usin
A new edition of the groundbreaking biography of activist, newspaper editor and community organiser, Claudia Jones. Featuring a preface by Black feminist writer, Lola Olufemi, and an appendix compiled by Marika Sherwood. This is the first book in Lawrence Wishart's new Radical Black Women Series.
The history of a Pan-Africanist movement based in Britain and its role in the Cold War in Africa.
Henry Sylvester Williams has organized the African Association in 1897, and the first-ever Pan-African Conference in 1900. He is thus the progenitor of the OAU/AU. Some of those who attended went on to work in various pan-African organizations in their homelands. This book tells the life story of Williams.
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