BLACK HISTORY MONTH SPEAKER

Black history is not the history of what happened to Black people. It is the history of what Black people built, and what was systematically taken, misattributed, suppressed, and buried. That distinction is the foundation of everything I speak about.

The civilisational argument for Black history begins with what existed, what crossed, and what endured.

It begins with African mathematical systems precise enough to have influenced global number theory. African chronometric traditions sophisticated enough to govern empires across centuries without mechanical clocks. African governance architectures that produced consensus democracy thousands of years before Athens. African knowledge transmission systems -- oral, architectural, material, cosmological -- engineered to survive rupture, and they did.

It runs in parallel with the diaspora civilisational record: the African mathematical intelligence that reappeared in Black American engineering, architecture, and invention. The chronometric sophistication that restructured itself inside blues, jazz, and gospel. The governance philosophy that organised Black American communal life, church structure, and civic institution. The innovations in agriculture, medicine, infrastructure, and technology that America was built on and cannot function without.

It moves through the mechanisms of erasure: how colonial classification reframed African achievement as primitive tradition, how the same apparatus misattributed and suppressed Black American contribution, and how both operations persist in curriculum, media, and public culture to this day. Not as historical accident. As continuous, deliberate infrastructure.

And it arrives at the living Black Continuum: the unbroken thread of civilisational intelligence that ran from African foundations through the Middle Passage and into every domain of Black American and diaspora life. Not as metaphor. As traceable, evidenced, demonstrable transmission.

The audience leaves understanding not just what Black history contains -- but what it has always been.

Why this talk is different

Most Black History Month programming does not make the civilisational argument, the one that establishes African knowledge systems as technically sophisticated, epistemologically advanced, and globally consequential. That argument is what I make, grounded in twenty years of original research, published books, and the forensic historiography methodology developed through the Afrodeities Institute CIC. It is the argument the conversation has always needed and rarely received.

Formats

Keynote address, 45 to 60 minutes, with or without Q and A. Panel contribution. An extended workshop for academic or educational settings. School and sixth-form lectures adapted for the age group.

Audiences I speak to

Universities and student unions, corporate diversity and inclusion programmes, schools and sixth forms, museums and cultural institutions, literary and ideas festivals, local authority cultural programmes, diaspora organisations and community bodies.

Booking

October fills early. For availability, fee information, and booking enquiries for Black History Month 2026, contact as soon as possible. Please include the date, format, expected audience size, and any specific themes you would like addressed.

FAQs

What is the keynote about?

It presents a civilisational argument focusing on African achievements before slavery.

Who is the speaker?

Chinenye Egbuna Ikwuemesi is the speaker, delivering an insightful perspective.

Where can the talk be held?

The keynote is available for universities, corporations, schools, and cultural institutions across the UK.

Is the talk suitable for students?

Yes, it is tailored to engage learners of all ages with grounding in history.

How long is the keynote?

Typically around 45 minutes with opportunity for audience questions.

Can the keynote be adapted for different audiences?

Yes, the content is flexible to suit cultural institutions, corporate events, or academic settings.

Get in Touch

Reach out to book Chinenye for your Black History Month event.

Phone

+44 7911 123456

Email

contact@blackhistoryspeaker.uk