Description: A biography of radical black reformer, publisher, bookshop owner and Caribbean politician Jessica Huntley (1927-2013).
Brief description: Abimbola Adelakun is Assistant Professor in the Department of African/African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. She is co-editor, with Toyin Falola, of Art, Creativity, and Politics in Africa and the Diaspora (2018). She is also the author of Under the Brown Rusted Roofs (2008) and writes a weekly column for PUNCH Newspapers.
Review Quotes:
"Jessica Huntley's Pan-African Life offers a deeply inspiring exploration of Jessica Huntley's early anti-colonial activism in British Guiana (Guyana), her confrontations with racism after migrating, and her crucial role in radical Black publishing in Britain. Claudia Tomlinson's thorough research makes this book essential for anyone dedicated to understanding the workings of decolonization and women's emancipation, while presenting a story that has not been told before." --Nigel Westmaas, Professor of Africana Studies, Hamilton College, USA
"This powerful and accessible account of Jessica Huntley's life's work tracks her principled commitment to and involvement in anti-colonial, anti-racist and antiimperialist activism in the Caribbean and the UK. It enriches the archive of the Black radical activist tradition, foregrounding the central place of Black women in creating and sustaining movement and organizing - decolonizing infrastructures of transformation - from below." --Alissa Trotz, Professor of Caribbean Studies and Women and Gender Studies, University of Toronto, Canada