What is Prince of Peckham University ? Black History Walks has teamed up with the Prince of Peckham pub to offer high quality, educational talks by Black academics on a variety of subjects. Prince of Peckham is a black-owned venue offering high quality food, drink and entertainment. Black History Walks runs walks, talks, films, river cruises, helicopter and steam train tours on London’s Black history. All of our speakers hold doctorates, are Phd students or authors. Late nineteenth century Britain was the centre of gravity for a host of Pan- African organisations and activists. Among them Samuel Jules Celestine Edwards. The first Black editor of a British national newspaper, radical journalist and novelist. A superb orator who drew huge crowds at his events. What was his role in the anti- colonial movement ? Where does he stand in the pantheon of Black Liberation theologists ? This event delves into the Ethiopianism Movement & Edwards role. Ethiopianism was a global Black Nationalist movement formed in the eighteenth century. Centered in an African Christian liberation ideology Its biblically inspired ideas travelled on an African revolutionary wave from the United States to Africa to the Caribbean and to Europe. It inspired religious movements which built hundreds of radical churches across the U.S. Africa and the Caribbean. It produced some of the most significant African theologists and activists of the nineteenth century who together laid the foundation for Black Liberation Theology. It created revolutionary leadership instrumental in challenging Colonialism and Apartheid and spiritually fueling the drive towards independence. Plus Q&A and book signing