Professor Kehinde Andrews
Kehinde Andrews earned a PhD in sociology and cultural studies from the University of Birmingham in 2011 and is now a professor of black studies in the school of social sciences at Birmingham City University.
The professor caused fury on Good Morning Britain in 2018 when he claimed Sir Winston Churchill was a ‘clear racist’ in a heated debate in which Piers Morgan asked him: ‘Why do you live in a country that you loathe?’
Professor Andrews also said Britain was ‘built on racism’ and that ‘everyone involved in it probably has a really racist past’.
The academic also compared Britain’s war-time Prime Minister to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler for his treatment of Indians when the country endured a famine in 1943.
On January 2019 Professor Andrews was embroiled in controversy again for calling the RAF airmen who bombed Nazi Germany war criminals.
He said the decision to build tributes like the Bomber Command Memorial was like ‘justifying terrorism’.
In August 2019 he appeared on Good Morning Britain to argue that author Enid Blyton was not ‘worthy’ of the honour of a commemorative coin because ‘she was racist her books were racist’.
Last year, Professor Andrews criticised the singing of Rule, Britannia! and Land of Hope and Glory at the Last Night of the Proms.
He said: ‘Some of those songs, particularly those two, are racist propaganda. They celebrate the British Empire which killed tens of millions of people.’
Professor Kehinde Andrews
Professor Priya Gopal
Professor Priya Gopal is a fellow at Churchill College Cambridge and staunch critic of the British Empire.
Professor Gopal, who was born in India, sparked anger last summer after tweeting ‘White Lives Don’t Matter. As white lives’.
A petition titled ‘Fire Cambridge Professor for Racism’ was also launched on change.org demanding that Professor Gopal be fired by the university for the comment.
The university stood by her after she said the comments were ‘very clearly speaking to a structure and ideology, not about people’.
She said that she had been misunderstood, and that she was clearly not attacking white people.
Professor Priya Gopal
Dr Madhusree Mukerjee
Journalist Dr Madhusree Mukerjee is also due to take part in tonight’s talk on Churchill, a free online event hosted by Churchill College Cambridge.
Her books include Churchill’s Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India During World War II.
Dr Madhusree Mukerjee
Dr Onyeka Nubia
Historian Dr Onyeka Nubia will also appear.
He has been credited with developing new strands of British history – including Africans in Ancient and Medieval England.
Dr Onyeka Nubia