The Sam Sharpe Lecture 2022: Bringing Down the House

The Sam Sharpe lectures seek to broaden and advance the legacy of Sam Sharpe by exploring subjects in mission, race, class, and injustice.

The Sam Sharpe Project, in partnership with the University of Oxford, presents this year's 10th anniversary lecture being delivered by Professor Kehinde Andrews at the Maths Institute, Oxford.

Kehinde Andrews is Professor of Black Studies at Birmingham City University. His latest book is The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule World published by Penguin Allen Lane in 2021. He also wrote Black to Black: Retelling Black Radicalism for the 21st Century and Resisting Racism: Race, Inequality and the Black Supplementary School Movement and is editor of the Blackness in Britain book series with Bloomsbury. Kehinde has written opinion pieces for outlets including The Guardian, Independent, Washington Post and CNN. He is founder of the Harambee Organisation of Black Unity; and editor-in-chief of Make it Plain.

Following the Lecture, there will be a Q and A session facilitated by Patricia Daley - Professor of the Human Geography of Africa, University of Oxford.