Africans in Britain

David Killingray

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2012
• eBook ISBN: 9781136300066
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Military & Maritime History
• Index: History

This collection of essays looks at the history of African people in Britain mainly over the past 200 years

Index

Abbega 17

Aberdeen University 129ff.

Aborigines’ Rights Protections Society 170, 174

Abraham, W.E. 222

Abrahams, Peter 171, 180, 187

Abubakar, Iya 222

Acland, Sir Richard 209

Ademola, Adenekan 124

Adeniyi-Jones, C.C. 114

Adi, Hakim 7, 9, 107ff.

Adjei, Ako 167, 170, 177

Advisory Committee on the Welfare of Coloured People in the UK 130

Africa Bureau 207–8, 210

African Association 108

African Business 14

African community associations 12–13

African Digest 178

African immigration to Britain 3–4, 5

African National Congress (South Africa) 204

African Progress Union 12, 112

Africans in Britain Iff.

airmen 145ff.

beggars 51

business interests 13–14

churches 18–19

crime 17, 55ff.

domestic servants 61–2

entertainers 14ff.

education 7–9, 107ff.

Ghanaians 4, 13

literacy 69ff.

musicians 16, 62

Nigerians 12

novels about 21 n9, 233

occupations 58ff.

politics 9–10, 107ff.

population 2, 9, 20, 51, 54–5

refugees 19–20

in Romano-Britain 23

school students 7

seamen 6, 59–61, 88ff.

skilled labour 64ff.

sports 16

students 8–9, 107, 220ff.

soldiers 11–12, 59

women 17ff., 52–4

African Society (later Royal) 110–11, 116

African Studies Association of the UK 1

African Studies Branch (of Colonial Office) 131

African Students Association, Aberdeen 134

African Students’ Association of America 189

African Students’ Union 111

African Students’ Union, Manchester 122

African Telegraph 14

African Times & Orient Review 14

Afro-West Indian Literary Society, Edinburgh 108

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Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Editor's Note
• Africans in the United Kingdom: An Introduction
• Unreconciled Strivings and Ironic Strategies: Three Afro-British Authors of the Late Georgian Period
• Skilled Workers or Marginalized Poor? The African Population of the United Kingdom, 1812–52
• Ethnic Identity, Transience and Settlement: The Kru in Liverpool since the Late Nineteenth Century
• West African Students in Britain, 1900–60: The Politics of Exile
• African Students in Britain: The Case of Aberdeen University
• Achtung! The Black Prince: West Africans in the Royal Air Force, 1939–46
• Kwame Nkrumah: The London Years, 1945–47
• The Impact of Seretse Khama on British Public Opinion, 1948–56 and 1978
• Doubly Elite: African Rhodes Scholars, 1960–90
• Notes on Contributors
• Index