Tuesday 27 October 2020

This research centre aims to focus attention on slavery and its legacies in Scotland and globally, through academic research, public events, and engagement with ongoing anti-racist activism and reparative justice.

The date of this launch is significant. The name was chosen for the centre because Beniba was a woman, a mother, who was held in slavery by Robert Cunningham Graham, former Rector of the University of Glasgow (1785-1787). We know very little about the life of Beniba, but her name indicates that she was born on a Tuesday and was perhaps, of Akan origin. For that reason, we chose to launch the centre on a Tuesday - to give respect and remembrance to the innumerable lives of ancestral Africans and their contributions throughout the slavery era.

Speakers include:

  • Graham Campbell, Glasgow City Councillor and activist,
  • Zandra Yeaman, human rights activist and museum curator,
  • Miles Greenwood, curator and historian,
  • Tara Innis, historian and educator,
  • Jackie Kay, Makar and playwright.

Centre Director, Peggy Brunache will offer a short introduction, followed by a panel discussion.

Listen to the launch:

 

First published: 12 October 2020

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