In this episode, Dr. Rachel Gillet is joined by Dr. Kesewa John to discuss how Black activists from the Caribbean shaped the global pan-African movement. The conversation touches on the use of archives, the importance of female voices in history, and the lives of three notable Caribbean activist individuals: Stéphane Rosso, George Padmore and Paulette Nardal.

Dr. Kesewa John is a professor at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she specializes in the intersections of Black feminist and Black radical Caribbean activism.

If you want to continue learning more about topics covered in today’s conversation, we’d recommend checking out:

- “Chapter Six: George Padmore” in Bill Schwarz’ West Indian Intellectuals in Britain (2018): https://www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781526137968/9781526137968.00012.xml?chapterBody=pdf

- “Paulette Nardal – The Original Intersectional Intellectual?”: https://intellectualsandthemedia.org/2022/01/22/paulette-nardal-the-original-intersectional-intellectual/

- At Home in Our Sounds: Music, Race, and Cultural Politics in Interwar Paris (2021) by Rachel Gillett: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/at-home-in-our-sounds-9780190842703?cc=nl&lang=en

ABOUT

Brought to you by the UGlobe Decolonisation Group

Hosted by Rachel Gillett

Sound by Maren Smith

Music by CarlosCarty (CC-BY-3.0)

Special thanks to our guest Dr. Kesewa John