Tag: Africa AudioWriter of the month: In conversation with Dr Gus Casely-HayfordThursday 28 February 2013A session in conversation with Gus Casely-Hayford, talking about his recent book, The Lost...AudioUgandan Asians in Britain: Journeys across three continents to find a homeMonday 7 January 2013It is 40 years since Idi Amin arbitrarily decided to expel over 70,000 Asians...AudioRemembering Samuel Coleridge Taylor; African British musician and pan-AfricanistFriday 19 October 2012This podcast is an audio-visual presentation on the life of one of Britain’s favourite...AudioUgandan AsiansTuesday 9 October 2012Karim Hussain, a records specialist at The National Archives, delivered a talk on what...AudioCB Patel: Speech on the reactions in the UK to the Ugandan Asian expulsionTuesday 9 October 2012Owner of Asian Business Publication Ltd, Asian Voice and Gujarat Samachar. CB Patel speaks...AudioDaduhubhai Patel: Personal memories of the expulsionTuesday 9 October 2012Forced to leave Uganda by Idi Amin’s army, Dadubhai brings a personal account, not...AudioKirit Thakrar (narrated by JP Agrawal): Personal memories of the expulsionTuesday 9 October 2012Kirit had just turned 17 and was living a typical teenage life in Uganda...AudioManju Jobanputra: Personal memories of the expulsionTuesday 9 October 2012Arriving in the UK during the 1972 exodus of Ugandan Asians, Manju felt the...Video‘il Cammino degli eroi der marsch der helden’ – The way of the heroes – Part 3Friday 10 August 2012This clip opens with Italian troops in action and then moves swiftly to show...AudioThe Golden Stool: cataloguing Colonial Office records from 1900Friday 25 May 2012In 1900, war broke out between the British and the Ashanti in the Gold...AudioThe last slave market: Dr John Kirk and the struggle to end the African slave tradeWednesday 15 February 2012In the mid-19th century, the Zanzibar slave market was notorious as the last place...AudioThe South African empireWednesday 7 July 2010Historian Dr Anne Samson explores South Africas attempt to build an empire over the...