Save the History of Africa & the African Diaspora MRes! w/ Hakim Adi

Guerrilla History

Henry

History, Education

4.8 • 622 Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2023

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

In this pressing episode, we bring on the esteemed Professor Hakim Adi to discuss the MRes History of Africa & the African Diaspora program, and the University of Chichester's efforts to shut down the program and make Professor Adi redundant. This is an incredibly important issue that we take up, so listeners, take action. Sign this petition NOW to tell the University of Chichester to preserve the MRes program and maintain Professor Adi in his role, then write a comment on the petition and forward it to 5 comrades! Tag us in any tweets you make about the petition, we will boost your message! Once again, sign and share the petition at https://www.change.org/p/stop-university-of-chichester-s-axing-of-the-mres-history-of-africa-the-african-diaspora.

Hakim Adi is Professor of the History of Africa and the African Diaspora at University of Chichester, and the founder of History Matters and its affiliated journal. He has authored numerous books, and has written many articles which can be found on his website hakimadi.org. You can follow him on twitter @hakimadi1

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0:00.0	You remember Den Van Boo?
0:09.0	No!
0:10.0	The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa.
0:14.0	They didn't have anything but a rank.
0:17.0	The French had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare, but they put some guerrilla action on.
0:29.4	Hello and welcome to guerrilla history, the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the
0:38.9	present. I'm one of your co-hosts, Henry Huckimacki, joined unfortunately by only one of my usual
0:45.2	co-hosts. We are joined by Professor Adnan Hussein, historian director of the School of Religion
0:50.0	at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada. Hello, Adnan. How are you doing today? Hi, Henry. I'm doing well. It's great to be with you. Yeah, nice to see you, as always. And unfortunately, we're not joined by our other usual co-host, Brett O'Shea, who is host of Revolutionary Left Radio and co-host of the Red Menace podcast, but we're hoping that he'll be back with the next conversation that we'll
1:11.0	be having. And of course, we always look forward to getting to talk to him.
1:15.2	Before I introduce our guest and our very pressing topic, I just want to remind the listeners
1:19.7	that you can help support the show and allow us to continue, do what we do by going to
1:24.7	patreon.com forward slash guerrilla history with guerr being spelled
1:28.5	G-U-E-R-R-I-L-A history. And you can keep up with our latest releases by following us on
1:34.9	Twitter or whatever the website is called at the given time by looking for at Gorilla
1:39.6	underscore pod. Again, gorilla being spelled G-U-E-R-R-I-L-A-U-L-A-U-Skod.
1:45.6	As I said, we have a very pressing topic today and a fantastic guest, really.
1:49.6	This is a dispatch episode of guerrilla history and kind of a call to action of sorts.
1:55.4	So listeners, as we go through the conversation, in the show notes, you will find a petition on change.org.
2:01.7	While you're listening, I implore you to go and sign on to that petition. So our guest today
2:08.3	is Professor Hakim Adi, who is a professor of history of Africa and the Afriam Diaspora at University of Chichester in England.
2:20.3	So hello, Professor. It's nice to have you on the program.
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