In this episode Seun Matiluko (@seunspeakss) tells us about women in the West African Students Union, an organisation set up to ensure ‘a sense of unity, co-operation and self-help among West Africans in the United Kingdom and Eire’. 

 Further resources: 

Marc Matera, Black London:The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization In The Twentieth Century (University of California Press 2015) 

https://archive.cartoons.ac.uk/record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=LSE3344

 https://www.marxists.org/archive/padmore/1947/pan-african-congress/ch06.htm

 https://www.vanguardngr.com/2009/11/we%E2%80%99ve-not-had-good-leaders-%E2%80%94-chief-mrs-opeolu-solanke-ogunbiyi/ 

http://wasuproject.org.uk/history-of-wasu/

 https://qz.com/africa/1979035/how-west-african-students-in-london-fought-for-african-independence/ 

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/jul/13/black-british-history-school-curriculum-england 

https://gal-dem.com/lavinya-stennett-community-cover-unity-solidarity-rest-the-black-curriculum-education/

Music recommendation: King Sunny Ade, Merciful God