Africa

A spread of old sheets of typewritten paper in front of printed historical portraits propped up on a table.

31st October 2025 | By Leslie Kerwin

The day three future presidents visited Chorlton

One morning in autumn, three future presidents, a Communist boxer, and a feminist descended on the Chorlton-on-Medlock Town Hall. In the October of 1945, 87...

Black life matter in white letters on a black background.

16th July 2023 | By Lesley O'Connor

British History with black people playing a positive part

British history with black people in it. Black people are not just slaves you were taught in school in the 1970s. Black British history is...

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22nd November 2019 | By Zainab Tariq

Pan African Congress held in Manchester at a time when ’empires were crumbling’

The remarkable achievements of the Pan African Congress have been celebrated by academics at Man Met university. A conference organised by Man Met during Black History Month...