Outrage over plan to cut African history course, professor

A university has come under fire for proposing to make the first British person of African heritage to become a professor of history in the UK redundant and cut the course he runs, writes Aamna Mohdin for The Guardian.

Professor Hakim Adi, an academic and expert in the history of Africa and the African diaspora, is at risk of termination by the University of Chichester, which has suspended all recruitment to the masters by research course in the history of Africa and the African diaspora.

The decision has sparked outrage among current and former students, who say Adi has led the way for successive historians of African descent and other underrepresented communities in the UK.
Adi has worked at the University of Chichester for more than a decade, and founded the MRes in 2017.
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