Southbank Black History Walk

From ancient Africa to Anti-Apartheid to Caribbean entrepeneurs, Top Ten hits, World War 2, block-busting movies and best selling authors
About this Event

An exciting, interactive tour of the African/Caribbean history along the Southbank riverside. We will cover:

• Africa before colonisation
• The devastation of WW2 and the link to Windrush
• Black British Civil Rights
• Inventors and Reparations
• Anti Apartheid. Londoners,Gentrification
• White suffragettes and Black Power. Frankenstein
• Amazing Black movies and how to see them
• International corruption sweet drinks, fossil fuels and money
• Sewage treatment in London and the fight for clean water in the 'third world'
• African Odysseys and racism at BFI Southbank

Look out for our book Black History Walks in London Volume 1, on sale now from all good book shops, also on Audible

Also check out our GCSE History exam text book from Pearson. This book is part based on our Notting Hill black history walk

• African Odysseys: How to Fight Racism at the BFI, British Film Institute
• African Odysseys: Ismahil Blagrove season London gun crime and Cuban revolution
• 50 years of Struggle Professor Gus John
• Black history Bus tour/ Steam train trip/canal cruise
• Frantz Fanon Weelkender films and talks
• Black Women and Film Exhibition
• Graphic Novels: Publishing Black History and movies
• Mayfair, Hackney,Notting Hill, Southbank, Trafalgar Square, Regents Canal and Soho walks
• African Women Spirituality @Fulham Palace
• Groundings @Fulham Palace
• Kumba drumming @Fulham Palace.
• I fought the law and I won, a Black judge of 60 years of Equality legislation
• Champion Black Bowers and businessmen in 1800s London: African Odysseys

About African Odysseys . Previously at the BFI Southbank for 18 years, African Odysseys is now hosting films across London due to systemic racism at the BFI which ignored a18,000 strong petition and cancelled the popular,educational, monthly programme there. Full details HERE