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URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/toxteth-library-black-history-mo
 nth-23-remembering-pastor-daniels-ekarte/
SUMMARY:: Toxteth Library: Black History Month 23: Remembering Pastor Danie
 ls Ekarte
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\nLocation: Toxteth Library\n\nTicket price: £4\n\nDate: 
 October 26\, 2023\nTime: 7:00 pm\n\n\n\n\n\nGET TICKETS\n\nRemembering Pa
 stor Daniels Ekarte and the African Churches Mission\n\nPastor George Dani
 el Ekarte was a minister and community activist from the Calabar region o
 f Nigeria who arrived in Liverpool about 1915 and established the African 
 Churches Mission in Hill Street\, Toxteth in 1931\, in which he not on
 ly conducted services but also fed and clothed the poor of the community\,
  and housed seamen and others denied accommodation due to the colour of th
 eir skin.\n\nHe also provided a home for the unwanted children of local wh
 ite women left behind by their fathers\, African American servicemen who r
 eturned home when World War II ended. As a radical supporter of pro-indepe
 ndence and anti-racist movements in the African Diaspora\, he was regarded
  as troublesome by the Establishment\, and therefore received no state or 
 voluntary support\, not even from the Anti-Slavery Society. Nevertheless\,
  he and his mission soldiered on for over thirty years\, until the dilapid
 ated building was finally demolished by the Council in 1964.\n\nUsing Brit
 ish and International sources\, historian Marika Sherwood has pieced toget
 her an account of his remarkable life and work\, retelling an inspiring st
 ory of kindness\, activism\, Black pride and resilience in a city built on
  the exploitation of his continent.\n\nJoin friends of WoW Stephen Small\,
  Tayo Aluko and Author Marika Sherwood as we explore Pastor Daniels’s li
 fe in Liverpool and the history of the city’s Black community.\n\nMarika
  Sherwood is an internationally recognised scholar\, who has dedicated he
 r life to challenging racial discrimination\, was given an honorary Doctor
  of History which she collected alongside hundreds of graduating students.
  The Hungarian-born historian\, who became a refugee in the 1940s\, has pu
 blished 13 critically acclaimed books about slavery\, colonialism and the 
 history of African and Caribbean people in Britain in a long and distingui
 shed career as a teacher\, writer\, and social campaigner. She has since b
 een at the forefront of attempts to diversify the curriculum across school
 s and higher education.\n\nShe is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institut
 e of Commonwealth Studies\, London. She has published many books\, includi
 ng Kwame Nkrumah and the Dawn of the Cold War (Pluto\, 2019) and Kwame 
 Nkrumah: The Years Abroad (Freedom Publications\, 1996). Her most recent 
 book is World War II: Colonies and Colonials (The Savannah Press\, 2013)
 . She has published innumerable articles in academic journals\, Pambazuka 
 News\, and the Runnymede Trust.\n\nStephen Small is a Professor at the Un
 iversity of California\, Berkeley\, in the Department of African American 
 and African Diaspora Studies\, where he has been teaching since 1995. He e
 arned his Ph.D. in Sociology from UC Berkeley\, and his research focuses o
 n the history and sociology of Black people in the diaspora. He has held v
 isiting positions at universities in several countries\, including Great B
 ritain\, France\, and Japan. Stephen is the author of several books\, incl
 uding 20 Questions and Answers on Black Europe\, and is currently working
  on a new book on slavery and imperialism in Black Liverpool. He is also c
 o-editor of Black Europe and the African Diaspora\, 2009. Stephen was bo
 rn and raised in Liverpool and is a child of the Windrush Generation. He h
 as been involved with various Black and multi-racial organisations and was
  a research assistant to the Right Honourable Bernie Grant\, MP\, in the 1
 990s.\n\nNigerian-born Tayo Aluko is an actor\, singer and playwright\, 
 based in Liverpool\, UK\, where he worked previously as an architect. His 
 art is dedicated to encouraging and inspiring progressive activism by show
 ing how Black History is everybody’s history.\n\n*These are difficult ti
 mes. We know some people may struggle to afford full price tickets. If you
  would like to attend this event but can’t afford to\, please contact i
 nfo@writingonthewall.org.uk. All queries will be treated in confidence.\
 n\n
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