{"id":2261,"date":"2026-04-24T10:18:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T09:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/?p=2261"},"modified":"2026-05-04T09:56:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T08:56:45","slug":"the-struggle-to-teach-the-history-of-africa-and-the-diaspora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/?p=2261","title":{"rendered":"The Struggle to Teach the History of Africa and the Diaspora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big>Speaker <strong>Hakim Adi<\/strong><\/big><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TsEh-HWLgdo?si=7_bG61KrRCJYYPTB&amp;start=1\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>Professor Adi<\/strong> is currently a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Department of International History at the London School of Economics and Professorial Research Associate at the Centre of Pan-African Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies.<br \/>\nHakim was the first historian of African heritage to become a professor of history in Britain.<br \/>\nIn August 2024 he was the recipient of the \u2018Outstanding African Studies Award\u2019 by the African Studies Association (UK) in recognition of his \u2018exceptional contribution to the field of African Studies, for expanding and disseminating knowledge on Africa.\u2019 In April 2025 he was awarded the Amilcar Cabral Centenary Medallion by the Funda\u00e7\u00e3o Amilcar Cabral (Cape Verde) for his work honouring the memory of Amilcar Cabral.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Hakim Adi \ufeff Professor Adi is currently a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Department of International History at the London School of Economics and Professorial Research Associate at the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meetings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2261"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2272,"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261\/revisions\/2272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cls-uk.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}