Hakim Adi
Biographic Data
| ID | 183944 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hakim Adi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hakim |
| FAMILY NAME | Adi |
| SIGNATURE | ADI H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Middlesex University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4778-9320 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 112 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Pan-Africanism and Internationalism in 1945
This article aims to analyze the relationship between Pan-Africanism and Internationalism, in order to outline the important role played by Pan-African work in 1945, particularly at the founding conferences of the organization World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU), as well as in other events and in preparations for the Pan African Congress in Manchester. High point of the Pan-African movement, this Congress formulated a unitary policy of anti-i…
Black British History
For over 1500 years before the Empire Windrush docked on British shores, people of African descent have played a significant and far-ranging role in the country’s history, from the African soldiers on Hadrian’s Wall to the Black British intellectuals who made London a hub of radical, Pan-African ideas. But while there has been a growing interest in this history, there has been little recognition of the sheer breadth and diversity of the Black Bri…
Women and Pan-Africanism
Women played a central role in the development of Pan-Africanism. It can even be claimed that it was a woman, the South African Alice Kinloch, who initiated the modern Pan-African movement at the dawn of the 20th century. In the early 21st century it has become fashionable, mainly in some academic circles in the United States, to use the term “Black Internationalism” as an alternative to Pan-Africanism. This phrase was also first coined by a woma…
African Political Thinkers, Pan-Africanism and the Politics of Exile, c. 1850–1970
This essay aims not only to detail the early history of African refugees in Britain but also to look at the political culture, ideas, writings, activities and organisations which African refugees and exiles from Africa and the diaspora developed while they were in Britain, and how this culture influenced wider political culture. It argues that further study of the histories of African migrants in Britain is required not just in order to provide a…
Belonging in Europe
The European myths about identity and nationalism, citizenship and ownership, are the building blocks for Fortress Europe. While the latest wave of African incomers are found washed upon a Sicilian beach when the tide goes out: bloated, breath-less, anonymous. © 2010 Taylor & Francis
The Comintern and Black Workers in Britain and France 1919–37
This paper looks at the attempts of the Communist international to organise amongst African and Caribbean workers in Europe, and particularly in France and Britain during the inter-war period. It locates these attempts within the overall objectives of the Comintern to organise all workers, to organise in the colonies and to address what was referred to at that time as the ‘Negro Question’ – that is the liberation of all those of African descent. …
Africa's ‘Agitators’
Africa's ‘Agitators’: Militant Anti-Colonialism in Africa and the West, 1918–1939 Jonathan Derrick London, Hurst, 2008 x+483 pp., ISBN: 978-1-85065-936-5 (£19.90 paperback)Derrick's comprehensive s...
Pan-Africanism and communism
This article charts the history of a now largely forgotten Pan-African gathering, the historic First International Conference of Negro Workers, organised by the Communist International (CI) and held in Hamburg in 1930. The CI had taken an interest in organising Africans and those of African descent in the colonies, and in Europe and the US, from its foundation, but the key factor in developing political work concerned with the ‘Negro Question’ wa…
Combating racism and the issue of reparations
This paper looks at previous Pan-Africanist attempts to combat the legacy of slavery and colonialism, and concludes that one of the lessons that can be learned from the Africanists of the 20th century is the necessity for unity, internationalism and placing working people at the centre. In terms of the need for the kind of repair that is now required, the paper highlights the continuing impact of Eurocentrism and racism in all its forms. In parti…
Forgotten Comrade? Desmond Buckle
Recognized at the end of his life as a “lifelong fighter for colonial freedom” and “one of the first African Marxists,” the Ghanaian James Desmond Buckle's life and work is rarely mentioned in historical accounts of the British or international communist movements. The role of Buckle, a longtime member of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) is recovered by documenting his work as organizer, writer, and propagandist for the CPGB on interna…
A New Kind of Imperialism
Research Article| May 01 2006 A New Kind of Imperialism Hakim Adi Hakim Adi Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2006) 2006 (95): 108–114. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2006-95-108 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Hakim Adi; A New Kind of Imperialism. Radical History Review 1 May 2006; 2006 (95): 108–114. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2006-95-108 Down…
Pan-African History
Pan-African History brings together Pan-Africanist thinkers and activists from the Anglophone and Francophone worlds of the past two-hundred years. Included are well-known figures such as Malcolm X, W.E.B. Du Bois, Kwame Nkrumah, and Martin Delany, and the authors' original research on lesser-known figures such as Constance Cummings-John and Dus Mohammed Ali reveals exciting new aspects of Pan-African activism
The African diaspora, ‘development’ & modern African political theory
Those concerned with the study of African political economy and ‘development’ in Africa have often neglected those ideas that emerged from the African diaspora, while those who study the African diaspora have often been more concerned with issues of ‘identity’ than with the political future of Africa. This article argues that for those who are concerned to study anti‐colonialism, it is difficult to separate the history of Africa and the African d…
West Africans in Britain, 1900-1960
Pan-Africanism and West African Nationalism in Britain
L'A. retrace quelques aspects de l'histoire des Africains de l'Ouest en Grande Bretagne pendant l'ere coloniale de la premiere moitie du vingtieme siecle. Il examine en particulier l'emergence du nationalisme ouest-africain en Grande Bretagne et les activites politiques de ces Africains qui firent egalement partie de la diaspora. Leurs organisations politiques, plus particulierement la West African Students' Union et le West African National Secr…
West Africans in Britain, 1900-1960
West Africans in Britain, 1900-1960
The 1945 Pan-African Congress Revisited
Black Edwardians
This study reveals the presence of black people in all walks of life all over the British Isles at the height of the imperialist era - challenging conventional views on imperialism, racism and British social history. Historians of British society have largely ignored this most visible of minorities, and commentators on racism have been silent on the period
The Communist Movement in West Africa
West African students in Britain, 1900–60
The number of mainly West African students in Britain steadily increased in this century. After 1920 African students were increasingly influenced by pan‐Africanist ideas and the nationalist movements, as well as radical politics and the experience of racial discrimination in Britain, and they formed various political organisations. The most important was the West African Students' Union which served as a nationalist pressure group and training g…
Bandele Omoniyi—a Neglected Nigerian Nationalist
Journal Article BANDELE OMONIYI—A NEGLECTED NIGERIAN NATIONALIST Get access HAKIM ADI HAKIM ADI Hakim Adi teaches in London and is completing a PhD thesis on the West African Students' Union and the political activities of West African students in Britain. He would like to thank George Shepperson and Richard Rathbone for their encouragement and comments on earlier drafts of this article. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic G…
Pan-African History
Pan-African History brings together Pan-Africanist thinkers and activists from the Anglophone and Francophone worlds of the past two-hundred years. Included are well-known figures such as Malcolm X, W.E.B. Du Bois, Kwame Nkrumah, and Martin Delany, and the authors' original research on lesser-known figures such as Constance Cummings-John and Dus Mohammed Ali reveals exciting new aspects of Pan-African activism
West Africans in Britain, 1900-1960
Africa's ‘Agitators’
Africa's ‘Agitators’: Militant Anti-Colonialism in Africa and the West, 1918–1939 Jonathan Derrick London, Hurst, 2008 x+483 pp., ISBN: 978-1-85065-936-5 (£19.90 paperback)Derrick's comprehensive s...
West Africans in Britain, 1900-1960
Pan-Africanism and West African Nationalism in Britain
L'A. retrace quelques aspects de l'histoire des Africains de l'Ouest en Grande Bretagne pendant l'ere coloniale de la premiere moitie du vingtieme siecle. Il examine en particulier l'emergence du nationalisme ouest-africain en Grande Bretagne et les activites politiques de ces Africains qui firent egalement partie de la diaspora. Leurs organisations politiques, plus particulierement la West African Students' Union et le West African National Secr…
West African students in Britain, 1900–60
The number of mainly West African students in Britain steadily increased in this century. After 1920 African students were increasingly influenced by pan‐Africanist ideas and the nationalist movements, as well as radical politics and the experience of racial discrimination in Britain, and they formed various political organisations. The most important was the West African Students' Union which served as a nationalist pressure group and training g…
West Africans in Britain, 1900-1960
The Comintern and Black Workers in Britain and France 1919–37
This paper looks at the attempts of the Communist international to organise amongst African and Caribbean workers in Europe, and particularly in France and Britain during the inter-war period. It locates these attempts within the overall objectives of the Comintern to organise all workers, to organise in the colonies and to address what was referred to at that time as the ‘Negro Question’ – that is the liberation of all those of African descent. …
Women and Pan-Africanism
Women played a central role in the development of Pan-Africanism. It can even be claimed that it was a woman, the South African Alice Kinloch, who initiated the modern Pan-African movement at the dawn of the 20th century. In the early 21st century it has become fashionable, mainly in some academic circles in the United States, to use the term “Black Internationalism” as an alternative to Pan-Africanism. This phrase was also first coined by a woma…
Forgotten Comrade? Desmond Buckle
Recognized at the end of his life as a “lifelong fighter for colonial freedom” and “one of the first African Marxists,” the Ghanaian James Desmond Buckle's life and work is rarely mentioned in historical accounts of the British or international communist movements. The role of Buckle, a longtime member of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) is recovered by documenting his work as organizer, writer, and propagandist for the CPGB on interna…
African Political Thinkers, Pan-Africanism and the Politics of Exile, c. 1850–1970
This essay aims not only to detail the early history of African refugees in Britain but also to look at the political culture, ideas, writings, activities and organisations which African refugees and exiles from Africa and the diaspora developed while they were in Britain, and how this culture influenced wider political culture. It argues that further study of the histories of African migrants in Britain is required not just in order to provide a…
The African diaspora, ‘development’ & modern African political theory
Those concerned with the study of African political economy and ‘development’ in Africa have often neglected those ideas that emerged from the African diaspora, while those who study the African diaspora have often been more concerned with issues of ‘identity’ than with the political future of Africa. This article argues that for those who are concerned to study anti‐colonialism, it is difficult to separate the history of Africa and the African d…
The 1945 Pan-African Congress Revisited
Pan-Africanism and communism
This article charts the history of a now largely forgotten Pan-African gathering, the historic First International Conference of Negro Workers, organised by the Communist International (CI) and held in Hamburg in 1930. The CI had taken an interest in organising Africans and those of African descent in the colonies, and in Europe and the US, from its foundation, but the key factor in developing political work concerned with the ‘Negro Question’ wa…
Bandele Omoniyi—a Neglected Nigerian Nationalist
Journal Article BANDELE OMONIYI—A NEGLECTED NIGERIAN NATIONALIST Get access HAKIM ADI HAKIM ADI Hakim Adi teaches in London and is completing a PhD thesis on the West African Students' Union and the political activities of West African students in Britain. He would like to thank George Shepperson and Richard Rathbone for their encouragement and comments on earlier drafts of this article. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic G…
Bandele Omoniyi—a Neglected Nigerian Nationalist
Journal Article BANDELE OMONIYI—A NEGLECTED NIGERIAN NATIONALIST Get access HAKIM ADI HAKIM ADI Hakim Adi teaches in London and is completing a PhD thesis on the West African Students' Union and the political activities of West African students in Britain. He would like to thank George Shepperson and Richard Rathbone for their encouragement and comments on earlier drafts of this article. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic G…
West African students in Britain, 1900–60
The number of mainly West African students in Britain steadily increased in this century. After 1920 African students were increasingly influenced by pan‐Africanist ideas and the nationalist movements, as well as radical politics and the experience of racial discrimination in Britain, and they formed various political organisations. The most important was the West African Students' Union which served as a nationalist pressure group and training g…
The Communist Movement in West Africa
West Africans in Britain, 1900-1960
The 1945 Pan-African Congress Revisited
Black Edwardians
This study reveals the presence of black people in all walks of life all over the British Isles at the height of the imperialist era - challenging conventional views on imperialism, racism and British social history. Historians of British society have largely ignored this most visible of minorities, and commentators on racism have been silent on the period
West Africans in Britain, 1900-1960
Pan-Africanism and West African Nationalism in Britain
L'A. retrace quelques aspects de l'histoire des Africains de l'Ouest en Grande Bretagne pendant l'ere coloniale de la premiere moitie du vingtieme siecle. Il examine en particulier l'emergence du nationalisme ouest-africain en Grande Bretagne et les activites politiques de ces Africains qui firent egalement partie de la diaspora. Leurs organisations politiques, plus particulierement la West African Students' Union et le West African National Secr…
West Africans in Britain, 1900-1960
The African diaspora, ‘development’ & modern African political theory
Those concerned with the study of African political economy and ‘development’ in Africa have often neglected those ideas that emerged from the African diaspora, while those who study the African diaspora have often been more concerned with issues of ‘identity’ than with the political future of Africa. This article argues that for those who are concerned to study anti‐colonialism, it is difficult to separate the history of Africa and the African d…
Pan-African History
Pan-African History brings together Pan-Africanist thinkers and activists from the Anglophone and Francophone worlds of the past two-hundred years. Included are well-known figures such as Malcolm X, W.E.B. Du Bois, Kwame Nkrumah, and Martin Delany, and the authors' original research on lesser-known figures such as Constance Cummings-John and Dus Mohammed Ali reveals exciting new aspects of Pan-African activism
Forgotten Comrade? Desmond Buckle
Recognized at the end of his life as a “lifelong fighter for colonial freedom” and “one of the first African Marxists,” the Ghanaian James Desmond Buckle's life and work is rarely mentioned in historical accounts of the British or international communist movements. The role of Buckle, a longtime member of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) is recovered by documenting his work as organizer, writer, and propagandist for the CPGB on interna…
A New Kind of Imperialism
Research Article| May 01 2006 A New Kind of Imperialism Hakim Adi Hakim Adi Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2006) 2006 (95): 108–114. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2006-95-108 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Hakim Adi; A New Kind of Imperialism. Radical History Review 1 May 2006; 2006 (95): 108–114. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2006-95-108 Down…
Combating racism and the issue of reparations
This paper looks at previous Pan-Africanist attempts to combat the legacy of slavery and colonialism, and concludes that one of the lessons that can be learned from the Africanists of the 20th century is the necessity for unity, internationalism and placing working people at the centre. In terms of the need for the kind of repair that is now required, the paper highlights the continuing impact of Eurocentrism and racism in all its forms. In parti…
Pan-Africanism and communism
This article charts the history of a now largely forgotten Pan-African gathering, the historic First International Conference of Negro Workers, organised by the Communist International (CI) and held in Hamburg in 1930. The CI had taken an interest in organising Africans and those of African descent in the colonies, and in Europe and the US, from its foundation, but the key factor in developing political work concerned with the ‘Negro Question’ wa…
Africa's ‘Agitators’
Africa's ‘Agitators’: Militant Anti-Colonialism in Africa and the West, 1918–1939 Jonathan Derrick London, Hurst, 2008 x+483 pp., ISBN: 978-1-85065-936-5 (£19.90 paperback)Derrick's comprehensive s...
Belonging in Europe
The European myths about identity and nationalism, citizenship and ownership, are the building blocks for Fortress Europe. While the latest wave of African incomers are found washed upon a Sicilian beach when the tide goes out: bloated, breath-less, anonymous. © 2010 Taylor & Francis
The Comintern and Black Workers in Britain and France 1919–37
This paper looks at the attempts of the Communist international to organise amongst African and Caribbean workers in Europe, and particularly in France and Britain during the inter-war period. It locates these attempts within the overall objectives of the Comintern to organise all workers, to organise in the colonies and to address what was referred to at that time as the ‘Negro Question’ – that is the liberation of all those of African descent. …
African Political Thinkers, Pan-Africanism and the Politics of Exile, c. 1850–1970
This essay aims not only to detail the early history of African refugees in Britain but also to look at the political culture, ideas, writings, activities and organisations which African refugees and exiles from Africa and the diaspora developed while they were in Britain, and how this culture influenced wider political culture. It argues that further study of the histories of African migrants in Britain is required not just in order to provide a…
Black British History
For over 1500 years before the Empire Windrush docked on British shores, people of African descent have played a significant and far-ranging role in the country’s history, from the African soldiers on Hadrian’s Wall to the Black British intellectuals who made London a hub of radical, Pan-African ideas. But while there has been a growing interest in this history, there has been little recognition of the sheer breadth and diversity of the Black Bri…
Women and Pan-Africanism
Women played a central role in the development of Pan-Africanism. It can even be claimed that it was a woman, the South African Alice Kinloch, who initiated the modern Pan-African movement at the dawn of the 20th century. In the early 21st century it has become fashionable, mainly in some academic circles in the United States, to use the term “Black Internationalism” as an alternative to Pan-Africanism. This phrase was also first coined by a woma…
Pan-Africanism and Internationalism in 1945
This article aims to analyze the relationship between Pan-Africanism and Internationalism, in order to outline the important role played by Pan-African work in 1945, particularly at the founding conferences of the organization World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU), as well as in other events and in preparations for the Pan African Congress in Manchester. High point of the Pan-African movement, this Congress formulated a unitary policy of anti-i…
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