Hungarian-born historian Marika Sherwood died on February 17, 2025, aged 87. Respected worldwide for her immense contribution to Black history, she gave one of the last extended on-camera interviews to me, Tayo Aluko, in December 2023.
Here’s a trailer:
From time to time, I’ll be uploading extracts to YouTube and posting them here.
On academic non-career, SOAS, Hon. Doctorate, “something weird” at Chichester Uni”
Outtake: On Robeson biographies and Paul Robeson Jnr., by Lloyd Brown
Working in New York, 1980s
First teaching Black, Caribbean primary school kids
Friendship with CLR James
Founding the Black and Asian Studies Association
Funds to the tune of £3000 are required for the production of the video which includes editing roughly ten hours of footage down to a film of just under one hour, and making it publicly and freely available. The working title is An Ignorant (Jewish) Hungarian Girl in the House of Black History Books
Contributions are sought from all interested parties. (£1119 raised as at 10 March 2025)
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