British historian Dr. Hakim Adi is launching his new book "Pan Africanism and Communism: The Communist international Africa and Diaspora, 1919-1939" on 10th of April at 6pm in Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies (Hugo Rüdel Straße 10, Bayreuth)

The book examines the interaction between the Communist International (Comintern) and the global struggle for the liberation of Africa and the African Diaspora during the inter-war period. In particular, it focuses on the history of the International Trade Union Committee of Negro Workers (ITUCNW), established by the Red International of Labour Unions (Profintern) in 1928 and its activities in Africa, the United States, the Caribbean and Europe. Drawing on the Moscow archives of the Communist International, archival material from Africa, the United States, Britain and France, as well as other recently published sources, it also examines the evolution and development of the Cominterns approach to the "Negro Question"; as issues related to Africa and the Diaspora were then called, an approach that played a pivotal role in the evolution of Pan-Africanism and anti-colonial and anti-racist politics during this period. More