Hakim Adi

Professor
Hakim Adi
Occupation Historian and writer
Known for Pan-Africanism
Title Professor of History of Africa and the African Diaspora
Academic background
Alma mater SOAS

Hakim Adi is a British historian and scholar who specializes in African affairs. He has written widely on Pan-Africanism and the modern political history of Africa and the African diaspora.

Career

Adi obtained a BA and his PhD in African history from SOAS, London University,[1] and has described himself as "a late developer into higher education.... I've taught history at every level you can imagine: schools, prison, adult education, further education, university. I've taught in Broadmoor, Strangeways - you name it, I've done it...".[2] He was Reader in the History of Africa and the African Diaspora at Middlesex University for many years until the department of history was closed down. He currently lectures in African History at the University of Chichester, West Sussex,[2] and is one of the few African British academics to become recognised as a professor.[3]

He was a founder member in 1991 of the Black and Asian Studies Association (BASA), which he chaired for several years.

Writings

Adi has written widely on Pan-Africanism and on the history of the African diaspora, particularly Africans in Britain. He is the author of the books West Africans in Britain 1900-1960: Nationalism, Pan-Africanism and Communism (1998), Pan-Africanism and Communism: The Communist International, Africa and the Diaspora, 1919-1939 (2013), and the joint author (with Marika Sherwood) of The 1945 Manchester Pan-African Congress Revisited (1995) and Pan-African History: Political Figures from Africa and the Diaspora since 1787 (2003). He has also written history books for children, including The History of the African and Caribbean Communities in Britain.[1]

Film work

Hakim Adi starred in the multi-award-winning documentary 500 Years Later (2005) alongside Maulana Karenga, Muhammed Shareef, Francis Cress Welsin, Kimani Nehusi, Paul Robeson Jr, and Nelson George.[4] The film was written by M. K. Asante, Jr. and directed by Owen 'Alik Shahadah.

Adi has also appeared in several television documentaries, as well BBC radio programmes.

Selected bibliography

References

  1. 1 2 "Professor Hakim Adi", hakimadi.org.
  2. 1 2 "Appointments: University of Chichester – Hakim Adi", Times Higher Education, 26 April 2012.
  3. ↑ "Professor Hakim Adi joins UK list of academic giants", Ligali, 5 January 2015.
  4. ↑ "500 Years Later (2005): Full Cast & Crew", IMDb.
  5. ↑ "New book by renowned scholar charts the history of Pan African Communism", Black British Academics, 26 July 2013.
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