African history students awarded compensation after master’s axed University of Chichester had suspended recruitment to its history of Africa and the African diaspora MRes The Guardian - UK · Feb 20, 2025
UK university cuts threaten to ‘wipe out’ black scholarship, academics say Critics say courses are being closed that played a leading role in addressing racial disparities in higher education The Guardian - UK · Oct 13, 2024
UK university courses on race and colonialism facing axe due to cuts Academics warn loss of higher education arts and humanities courses will harm understanding of racism and imperial history The Guardian - UK · May 5, 2024
Keir Starmer urged to make King Charles pay for monarchy's role in slavery A CAMPAIGN group within the Labour Party are calling on Keir Starmer to ensure King Charles pays reparations for the monarchy’s role in slavery. The National (Scotland) · Oct 9, 2023
Professor Hakim Adi shortlisted for prestigious Wolfson award The nomination for Adi,the first British person of African heritage to become a professor of history in the UK, is a vindication for the academic who was made redundant a week ago The Guardian - UK · Sep 4, 2023
Acclaimed historian Hakim Adi up for prize weeks after being made redundant in cost-cutting measures The first academic of African heritage to be made a professor of history in Britain was today shortlisted for his subject’s most lucrative prize only weeks after being made redundant in a controversial cost-cutting measure. Evening Standard · Sep 4, 2023
Backlash as UK university moves to axe flagship African studies course The University of Chichester has accelerated plans to pull the plug on its flagship African history course without consultation from its teaching staff or students. The Independent UK · Jul 26, 2023
Outrage over UK university’s plan to cut African history course and its professor University of Chichester proposes redundancy for Hakim Adi, first Briton of African heritage to become a professor of history in UK The Guardian - UK · Jul 23, 2023
African and Caribbean People in Britain by Hakim Adi review – long before the Windrush docked From Cheddar Man to Black Tudors and abolitionists, this meticulously researched, if limited, study refutes the notion that Britain was ever wholly white The Guardian - UK · Aug 28, 2022