SOAS academics referenced in new All Party Parliamentary Group for Africa report on Africa in ...
31 March 2022
The APPG for Africa and the Royal African Society , published their report, ‘ Africa in the UK Curricula ’ on 22 March 2022 following an inquiry into teaching about Africa in the UK school curriculum.
The new report references work and insights from Dr Awino Okech on SOAS’s work on the transformative potential of respectful equal partnerships with African academics and institutions (p.23).
The report also references the Migrants on the Margins research project by the Royal Geographical Society, which collaborated with Professor Laura Hammond , to produce educational resources on migration and urbanisation (p.19). The research brought together geographers from UK universities with international researchers to understand why people move and why they stay. The educational resources present first-hand testimony from migrants, supplemented by resource sheets, video presentation and the retelling of their migration stories through graphic novels.
The APPG for Africa report finds that knowledge and understanding of Africa and the Diaspora is not covered well enough in the school curriculum in the UK. The report contains a number of recommendations to improve the teaching and study of Africa in the UK curriculum including the recommendation that Government and examination boards should reform examination frameworks to allow for both restoration and innovation in the study of Africa in schools.