University of Salford and Students Unions Virtual Event
18 October 2020
University of Salford and Students’ Unions Event
The Fifth Pan African Congress that took place in Manchester in 1945 brought together young activists who wanted to make a positive and forward-looking change in the lives of Africans and people of African descent. They started this journey of change by meeting in Manchester to discuss and action a plan on how to lead an anti-colonial campaign and foster the understanding that black people are also capable of inciting social and political change. Seventy-five years later, we as students and student leaders wish to continue and reflect on these conversations that underpinned the Fifth Pan African Congress, and highlight the realities of colonialism and inequality that still exist in our society today. The Fifth Pan African Congress remains a significant historical moment that can inform our leadership journeys and the diversity and inclusion we seek to achieve in our society and the world at large. Thanks to funding and resources from the University of Salford and the North West Consortium of Doctoral Training Partnership (NWCDTP), we are able to share these conversations in a free, virtual event, to ensure that these concerns are not only raised within academic institutions, but reverberate across the local communities within Manchester.
The event will include poetry by the Chancellor of the University of Salford, Jackie Kay; panel discussions with the Presidents and representations of the Students Unions and Greater Manchester universities; poetry and dance performances by students Vashti Gbolagun (Salford), Carol Tiriongo (Manchester) and Isaiah Hull (in association with Big People Music); and an online workshop for AHRC NWCDTP PhD students on Diversity and Inclusion.
This University of Salford and Students Union programme of events has been organised by Emma Barnes (University of Salford), Kwame Kwarteng (General Secretary UMSU), Ansh Sachdeva (President Bolton Students Union), and Rosalie Benjamin (University of Salford), with the support of colleagues in the School of Arts, Media and Creative Technology at the University of Salford and Studio Salford. The event has been generously funded by the AHRC NWCDTP and SAMCT.
Image credit: Everyone’s Equal When They’re Dead. Mural 1 metre x 3 metres, 2020 by Martha Barr (MA Fine Art). Inspired by the Black Lives Matter protests in London in June 2020, this art project draws on imageries from the march, as well as from news reports from around the world and Picasso’s Guernica (1937). First pained for Windmill Brixton, the mural can now also be seen at One for the Road, a pop-up bar in New Cross, London.
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