The Fifth Pan-African Congress held in Manchester in 1945 was a pivotal event in the fight against colonialism and for African independence. 80 years on you are invited to join award-winning author, broadcaster and academic Gary Younge as he discusses this global moment in Manchester with an insightful lecture and Q&A for Black History Month.
The Second World War was not just a multinational effort but a multiracial and multicultural one as well, in which black and brown people came to Europe to save the continent from its own pathologies. But the freedom they fought for did not apply to them, and so they had to fight through the consequent peace for equality. 80 years after the Fifth Pan African Congress in Manchester, the issues it raised remain deeply relevant to our contemporary conversations about immigration, racism, islamophobia, antisemitism and national identity.
Lecture and Q&A will take place in the Engine Hall and will be chaired by anti-racist historian and Manchester Metropolitan University lecturer, Dr Shirin Hirsch.
