Hello from Britain!

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