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

• 60 years of Black British Civil Rights Professor Gus John
• Black history Bus tour/ Steam train trip/River cruise
• Frantz Fanon weekender
• The Story of Lovers Rock @Bernie Grant Arts Centre
• 20 years of African Odysseys: Is the BFI right to ignore 18,400 people?
• Remembering Joy Gardner: Black Lives Matter 1993
• Black Women and Film Exhibition
• Graphic Novels: Publishing Black History and movies
• Mayfair, Hackney, Notting Hill, Southbank, Trafalgar Square, Regents Canal and Soho walks
• In search of Mami Wata : African Spirituality
• I fought the law and I won, a Black judge of 60 years of Equality legislation @Black Cultural Archives
• Black British Boxing history

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 a18,400 strong petition and cancelled the popular,educational, monthly programme there. Full details HERE