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An interview with Dr. Kehinde Andrews: Empire and Black Radicalism

An interview with Dr. Kehinde Andrews: Empire and Black Radicalism

Interviewed by Sumayya Hasan Dr Kehinde Andrews is Associate Professor in Sociology, School of Social Sciences, Birmingham City University. In 2013, Dr Andrews published his first book “Resisting Racism: Race, Inequality and the Black Supplementary School Movement”. He is now Director of the Centre for Critical Social Research, founder of

POSTCARDS TO SOAS: Egypt

POSTCARDS TO SOAS: Egypt

By: Amina Abubakar Ali, BA English Literature and Arabic I am a British-Somali, currently studying Arabic, on my year abroad in Alexandria, Egypt. Before I started my year abroad, my friends and family questioned how I felt, as a Black woman travelling to the Arab world. My experience overall has

News Made Easy: University Funding

News Made Easy: University Funding

By: Benjamin Jackson, MSc Violence, Conflict and Development The Browne Review and 2012 changes Since tuition fees trebled in 2012, there has been much scrutiny on university funding, but less information – the majority of students are unsure on how universities are even funded. The Browne Review, published in 2010, laid

The Erasure of Black History at SOAS

The Erasure of Black History at SOAS

This is an open letter to all students at my university. To start off Black History Month, I want to address the failures surrounding Black History in an institutional setting. SOAS has an excellent track record of omitting central points of its history, a history which has paved the way

Humans of SOAS Pauline Blanchet: Talking Mental Health with our Agony Aunt

Humans of SOAS Pauline Blanchet: Talking Mental Health with our Agony Aunt

So, first, as our agony aunt this year for The SOAS Spirit, tell us about yourself. Pauline: My name is Pauline Blanchet, and I am a third-year student, studying Linguistics and Development. I have been passionate about mental health for a long time. At the age of fifteen, I was

Choke’a-Cola? Coca-Cola.

Choke’a-Cola? Coca-Cola.

Is Coca-Cola failing to take adequate responsibility of the quality and safety of their products being sold abroad? One case in Nigeria would suggest otherwise, portraying Coca-Cola as a company bound by no moral obligation. In March 2017, a high court judge in Nigeria, Justice Adedayo Oyebanji, ruled that soft

Education About Recreational Drug Use is ‘Normalising Drug Taking’

Whilst at Boomtown festival this past summer I stumbled upon an 18-year-old boy, who’s friends had left him in his tent alone, to indulge their hedonism. Immediately I could see that something wasn’t right with him. He was not ok, and on further conversation it was discovered that