Hakim Adi Pan-Africanism and Communism The Communist International, Africa and the Diaspora, 1919-1939

BASED ON NEW MATERIALS FROM THE ARCHIVES OF THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL IN MOSCOW AS WELL AS OTHER ESTABLISHED SOURCES, PROFESSOR HAKIM ADI HAS GIVEN US THE VERY FIRST BOOK THAT EXPLAINS THE HISTORY AND ACTIVITIES OF THE INTERNATIONAL TRADE UNION COMMITTEE OF NEGRO WORKERS (ITUCNW) IN RELATION TO THE ATTAINMENT OF BLACK EMANCIPATION, THE ROLE OF SUCH LEADING FIGURES AS GEORGE PADMORE, THE NUANCED DISCUSSIONS WITHIN THE COMMUNIST MOVEMENT ON PAN AFRICANISM AND HOW TO ATTAIN LIBERATION FROM COLO-

NIAL DOMINATION. THE BOOK ABOUNDS \MITH NE.W INSIGHTS, ORIGINAL REFLECTIONS, FRESH INTERPRETATION AND NEW CONCLUSIONS ON WHAT WAS GENERALLY CALLED THE NEGRO QUESTION.”

HAKIM ADI is currently Reader in the History of Africa and the African Diaspora at the University of Chichesrer in England. He is the author of West Àfricarus in Britain 1900-1960: Nationalism, Pan-Africanism and Communism (London, 1998); joint author (with M. Sherwood) of The 1945 Manchester Pan-Àfrican Congress Reuisited (London, L991) and Pan-Àfrican History: Political Figures -* AÍlro and the Diaspora since 1787 (London, 2003). He has written widely on Pan-Africanism and the modern political history ofthe African Diaspora, especially on Africans in Britain and has also written three books for children.