The Black Cantabs Black History Month Dinner!
Thank you to everyone who joined us for the Black History Month Dinner! It was an evening where valuable connections were made, meaningful conversations were initiated, »
The king's son at King's
Looking into the annals of an institution as aged as Cambridge, one concurs with the dictum that ‘The past is a foreign country’. This is seen »
The Pioneering Black Cantabs before 1900.
According to the Victoria and Albert museum, Francis Williams (1700-1772)was the son of wealthy freed slaves from Jamaica who attended Cambridge University in 1758. However, »
Musa Haji Deria Mohamed, a Somali Cantab.
Country of Origin: Somalia. Musa Haji Deria Mohamed was born in 1938 in the small village of Taleh, some 150 kilometres northeast of Las Anod. Taleh »
Earliest Black Women at Cambridge
This blog presents short biographies of the six earliest black women we have researched so far, who attended the three women's colleges during the late 1940s »
Black Cantabs between 1900-1930
The early 1900s saw an increased number of black cantabs from West Africa and the Caribbean join the University of Cambridge. Several West Africans came from »