Augustine John (born 11 March 1945)
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Grenadian-born writer, education campaigner, consultant, lecturer and researcher, who moved to the UK in 1964. He has worked in the fields of education policy, management and international development. As a social analyst he specialises in
social audits
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Etymology
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,
change management
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, policy formulation and review, and programme evaluation and development.
Since the 1960s he has been active in issues of education and schooling in Britain's inner cities such as
Manchester
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,
Birmingham
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and London, and was the first black Director of Education and Leisure Services in Britain. He has also worked in a number of university settings, including as visiting Faculty Professor of Education at the
University of Strathclyde
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in
Glasgow
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, as an associate professor of education and honorary fellow of the London Centre for Leadership in Learning at the
UCL Institute of Education
IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society (IOE) is the education school of University College London (UCL). It specialises in postgraduate study and research in the field of education and is one of UCL's 11 constituent faculties. Prior to m ...
,
University of London
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,
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at ''The Guardian''. and visiting professor at
Coventry University
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. A respected public speaker and media commentator, he works internationally as an executive coach and a management and social investment consultant.
Early life and education
Gus John was born in the village of Concord in
Grenada
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,
Eastern Caribbean
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, to parents who were peasant farmers.
At the age of 12, he won a scholarship to attend secondary school at the prestigious Presentation Boys College in
St George's, the island's capital.
When he was aged 17, he joined a seminary in
Trinidad
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,
where he spent two years as a theology student.
[Gus John]
"Intercultural Dialogue and Mutual Respect between Europe and Islam – The challenge for Education"
27 October 2012.
At the age of 19, he went to England, transferring to the Theology programme at
Oxford University
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.
He became Chair of the Education Subcommittee of the Oxford Committee for Racial Integration (OCRI), and recalls:
Having been a
Dominican friar
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from 1964 to 1967, John split with the order because of the church's links with
apartheid South Africa
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.
[Fran Abrams]
“This is Gus John; they say he's not anti-racist enough”
''The Independent'', 21 July 1996. In the late 1960s he took employment as a gravedigger by day while working by night in an inner-city youth club.
Community activism
Maintaining his interest in "schooling and education, youth development and the empowerment of marginalised groups within communities", John became a community activist.
In 1968, he started the first Saturday/
Supplementary school
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in
Handsworth,
Birmingham
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, with a group of colleagues. After working on youth and race in Handsworth for the
Runnymede Trust
The Runnymede Trust is a race equality think tank in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1968 by Jim Rose and Anthony Lester as an independent source for generating intelligence for a multi-ethnic Britain through research, network building, ...
, he went in January 1971 to
Moss Side
Moss Side is an Inner city, inner-city area of Manchester, England, south of the Manchester city centre, city centre, It had a population of 20,745 at the United Kingdom Census 2021, 2021 census. Moss Side is bounded by Hulme to the north, Cho ...
, Manchester, where he continued organising and campaigning on four issues in particular: housing and the specific difficulties for young people to get houses on their own; employment for black school leavers; the way the community was policed; and the quality of schooling outcomes for black school leavers.
[Andrew Bowman interview with Gus John]
"‘A violent eruption of protest’: Reflections on the 1981 Moss Side ‘riots’ (part one)"
''Manchester Mule'', 15 August 2011. Reprinted in Gus John, ''Moss Side 1981: More Than Just a Riot'' (2011). The following year, as he recalled:
In 1972, ''Because They're Black'', a book on which he collaborated with
Derek Humphry
Derek Humphry (born 29 April 1930) is a British-born American journalist and author notable as a proponent of legal assisted suicide and the right to die. In 1980, he co-founded the Hemlock Society and, in 2004, after that organization dissolv ...
, was awarded the
Martin Luther King Memorial Prize
The Martin Luther King Memorial Prize was instituted by novelist John Brunner and his wife and was awarded annually to a literary work published in the US or Britain that was deemed to improve interracial understanding,Derek Humphry''Good Life, Go ...
for its contribution to racial harmony in Britain, and Gus John went on to produce many other notable publications. His 1976 work ''The New Black Presence in Britain'' was "One of the earliest texts written by a Black Christian in Britain that began to articulate a distinct and conscious experience of black religious sensibilities" and he has been called described as "a grand patriarch of black theology in Britain".
He became a member of the
Campaign Against Racial Discrimination
The Campaign Against Racial Discrimination (CARD) was a British organization, founded in 1964 and which lasted until 1967, that lobbied for race relations legislation. The group's formation was inspired by a visit by Martin Luther King Jr. to Londo ...
(CARD), the civil rights organisation led by
David Pitt.
[Elizabeth Pears]
"Professor Gus John: Fighting The Higher Power"
''The Voice'', 21 March 2015. By 1981 John was the northern organiser of the New Cross Massacre Action Committee, and one of the organisers of the "Black People's Day of Action" held on 2 March, a response to the
New Cross Fire
The New Cross house fire was a conflagration, fire that occurred during a party at a house in New Cross, south-east London, in the early hours of Sunday, 18 January 1981. The blaze killed 13 young black people aged between 14 and 22, and one su ...
on 18 January in which 13 young black people died.
Following the
uprisings in Moss Side in July 1981 he chaired the Moss Side Defence Committee, and he was adviser to the Liverpool 8 Defence Committee following the
Toxteth Uprisings that same year.
He was the co-ordinator of the
Black Parents Movement The National Association of Black Supplementary Schools (NABSS) is a resource, information and advice centre for supplementary schools aimed at Black children and parents in the United Kingdom.
Supplementary schools for the children of Caribbean a ...
in Manchester, founded the Education for Liberation book service and helped to organise the
International Book Fair of Radical Black and Third World Books
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in Manchester, London and
Bradford
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.
He was a member of the 1987 Macdonald Inquiry into Racism and Racial Violence in Manchester Schools and subsequently co-authored (with
Ian Macdonald
Ian MacCormick (known by the pseudonym Ian MacDonald; 3 October 1948 – 20 August 2003) was a British music critic and author, best known for both ''Revolution in the Head'', his critical history of the Beatles which borrowed techniques from a ...
, Reena Bhavnani and Lily Khan) ''Murder in the Playground: the Burnage Report''. He was a founder trustee of the
George Padmore Institute
The George Padmore Institute (GPI), founded in 1991 in Stroud Green Road, North London, by John La Rose (1927–2006) and a group of political and cultural activists connected to New Beacon Books,[John La Rose
John is a common English name and surname:
* John (given name)
* John (surname)
John may also refer to:
New Testament
Works
* Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John
* First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John
* Second E ...]
. In 1989 John was appointed Director of Education in
Hackney and was the first black person to hold such a position.
[Alliance for Inclusive Educatio]
"Talking to Professor Gus John"
''Inclusion Now'', Issue 37, 3 February 2014. When the two departments were amalgamated he became Hackney's first Director of Education and Leisure Services.
["Prof Gus John"]
George Padmore Institute.
Consulting and advisory work
Since leaving Hackney in 1996 Gus John has worked as an education consultant in Europe, the Caribbean and Africa, and is director of Gus John Consultancy Limited.
He has been Chair of the Communities Empowerment Network (CEN), an advocacy and campaigning service working for equality and justice in education founded in 1999,
and is Chair of Parents and Students Empowerment (PaSE), an organisation devoted to empowering students and parents in schooling and education.
He chaired the "Round Table" for the
National Union of Teachers
The National Union of Teachers (NUT; ) was a trade union for school teachers in Education in England, England, Education in Wales, Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man. It was a member of the Trades Union Congress. In March 2017, NU ...
(NUT) in October 2006/March 2007 and produced ''Born to be Great'', the NUT's Charter on Promoting the Achievement of Black Caribbean Boys (2007). In 2010, he produced ''The Case for a Learners' Charter for Schools'', a charter that articulates the educational entitlement of all school students and the rights and responsibilities of everybody engaged in the schooling process – local authorities, school governors, teachers, pupils and parents.
He was a member of
Channel 4
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's Street Weapons Commission and later adviser to London Mayor
Boris Johnson
Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson (; born 19 June 1964) is a British politician, writer and journalist who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2019 to 2022. He previously served as F ...
on serious youth violence in the capital.
Since 2006, John has been a member of the
African Union
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's Technical Committee of Experts working on "modalities for reunifying Africa and its global diaspora". He has advised member states in Africa and the Caribbean (Cameroon, Somaliland, Lagos State Government, Jamaica) in meeting the
Sustainable Development Goals
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related to education and youth.
["More about Gus John"]
, official website. Between 2004 and 2012 John worked on Niger Delta affairs and in 2012 collaborated with
Kingsley Kuku
Kingsley Kuku is a Nigerian political and environmental rights activist, the special adviser to former President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria on Niger Delta Affairs and the chairman of the Presidential Amnesty Programme.
During his university d ...
, the then special adviser to President
Goodluck Jonathan
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, and David Keighe on a development manual entitled ''Remaking the Niger Delta: Challenges and Opportunities''. In 2008, he co-authored with Samina Zahir ''Speaking Truth to Power'', which resulted from research for
Arts Council England
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on identity, aesthetics and ethnicity in theatre and the arts.
Among other recent undertakings, he has since 2011 been a consultant to the
Methodist Church, UK, on implementing Equality and Human Rights legislation,
and in 2012 was appointed to chair the Expert Advisory Group on Equality, Diversity and Social Mobility as part of the Legal Education and Training Review (LETR). He was commissioned by the
Solicitors Regulation Authority
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It is responsible for regulating the professional conduct of more than 125,000 solicitors and other authorised individuals at more than 11,000 f ...
(SRA) to undertake a comparative review of how the SRA has dealt with disciplinary cases and especially the over-representative number of black and ethnic minority solicitors that are sanctioned by that regulator, John's report being published in 2014.
John made a submission to the
United Kingdom Parliament
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's 2017 Youth Violence Commission, which he subsequently published in digest form.
In 2019, John quit from an advisory body to the
Church of England
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, after Archbishop
Justin Welby
Justin Portal Welby (born 6 January 1956) is a British bishop who is the 105th Archbishop of Canterbury. He has served in that role since 2013. Welby was previously the vicar of Southam, Warwickshire, and then Bishop of Durham, serving for jus ...
endorsed the criticism of Labour Party leader
Jeremy Corbyn
Jeremy Bernard Corbyn (; born 26 May 1949) is a British politician who served as Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party from 2015 to 2020. On the political left of the Labour Party, Corbyn describes himself as a socialist ...
by the chief rabbi
Ephraim Mirvis
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Early life and ...
, making allegations of antisemitism. John said: "What gives the archbishop of Canterbury the right to endorse the chief rabbi’s scaremongering about Corbyn and adopt such a lofty moral position in defence of the Jewish population?"
Honours
In October 1999, Gus John was asked by
Tony Blair
Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair (born 6 May 1953) is a British former politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007. He previously served as Leader of th ...
to accept a CBE (
Commander of the Order of the British Empire
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and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...
) in the
New Year Honours List
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, 2000.
Declining, John said that he believed such honours to be anachronistic and indeed an insult to the struggles of African people like himself who have spent their life trying to humanise British society and combating racism, which is a core part of the legacy of Empire and which the society and its institutions are perennially failing to confront. He was quoted by ''
The Guardian
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'' as saying:
The journalist
Jon Snow, who himself refused an
OBE
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and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...
, made a special study of the honours system, writing in ''
The Independent
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'': "Gus John, the Afro-Caribbean former Director of Education for Hackney, explained to me what it felt like for him to be approached with the offer of being appointed CBE. 'I regard
he title
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Commander of the British Empire as part of the iconography of British imperialism,' he said." Snow subsequently commented to a Parliamentary Select Committee investigating criticism of the honours system on John's position: "As he had fought his whole life trying to unpick the consequences of British imperialism, he felt it was a pretty serious dishonour to have to wander round the planet henceforth as a Commander of the very institution he had tried to demolish."
In 2015, Gus John's 70th birthday was marked by events honouring his five decades of activism in Britain: on 11 March at
Conway Hall
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, on 14 March at the
British Film Institute
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, in conversation with
Gary Younge
Gary Andrew Younge , (born January 1969) is a British journalist, author, broadcaster and academic. He was editor-at-large for ''The Guardian'' newspaper, which he joined in 1993. In November 2019, it was announced that Younge had been appointe ...
,
and on 19 April at the
Phoenix Cinema
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, in conversation with
Margaret Busby
Margaret Yvonne Busby, , Hon. FRSL (born 1944), also known as Nana Akua Ackon, is a Ghanaian-born publisher, editor, writer and broadcaster, resident in the UK. She was Britain's youngest and first black female book publisherJazzmine Breary"Let' ...
.
A 1979 portrait of John, by the photographer
Brian Shuel, is in the collection of the
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.
Professor Gus John was voted one of the "
100 Great Black Britons
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" in the 2020 poll and book initiated by
.
In October 2020, John was named by
FutureLearn
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on a list of "12 Black history pioneers with careers that will inspire you", together with
Lewis Latimer
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,
Shirley Jackson
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,
Lisa Gelobter
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In 2006, Gelobter founded and took on the role of Chief Executive Offi ...
, Yvonne Connolly,
Susie King Taylor
Susie King Taylor (August 6, 1848 – October 6, 1912) is known for being the first Black nurse during the American Civil War. Beyond just her aptitude in nursing the wounded of the 1st South Carolina Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Taylor was the f ...
,
Mary Seacole
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,
Alexa Canady
Dr. Alexa Irene Canady (born November 5, 1950) is a retired American medical doctor specializing in pediatric neurosurgery. She was born in Lansing, Michigan and earned both her bachelors and medical degree from the University of Michigan. Afte ...
,
Charles DeWitt Watts,
Kanya King
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Biography
King was born in Kilburn, London, to an Irish mother and a Ghanaian father, being the youngest of their nine children. Her father ...
,
Oprah Winfrey
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, and
Madam C. J. Walker
Madam C.J. Walker (born Sarah Breedlove; December 23, 1867 – May 25, 1919) was an African American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and political and social activist. She is recorded as the first female self-made millionaire in America in the '' G ...
.
Selected publications
Books and reports
* 1970 – ''Race in the Inner City'', a study of young people in Handsworth, Birmingham. London:
Runnymede Trust
The Runnymede Trust is a race equality think tank in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1968 by Jim Rose and Anthony Lester as an independent source for generating intelligence for a multi-ethnic Britain through research, network building, ...
.
* 1971 – ''Because They're Black'' (with
Derek Humphry
Derek Humphry (born 29 April 1930) is a British-born American journalist and author notable as a proponent of legal assisted suicide and the right to die. In 1980, he co-founded the Hemlock Society and, in 2004, after that organization dissolv ...
). London: Penguin. Winner of Martin Luther King Memorial Prize, 1972.
* 1972 – ''Police Power and Black People'' (with Derek Humphry). London: Panther, Granada Publishing.
* 1973 – ''The Hilton Project'' – a study of Moss Side, Manchester (with Bryce Anderson, Carol Milton and Tony Pritchard), Manchester: Youth Development Trust.
* 1976 – ''The New Black Presence in Britain''. London: British Council of Churches.
* 1981 – ''In the Service of Black Youth: A Study of the Political Culture of Youth and Community Work with Black People in English Cities''. Leicester: National Association of Youth Clubs.
* 1989 – ''Murder in the Playground: the Burnage Report'' (with Ian Macdonald, Reena Bhavnani and Lily Khan). London: Longsight Press.
* 1991 – ''Education for Citizenship''. London: Charter 88 Trust.
* 2003 – ''The Crisis Facing Black Children in the British Schooling System''. Gus John Partnership.
* 2005 – ''School Exclusion and Transition into Adulthood in African Caribbean Communities'' (with Cecile Wright, Penny Standen and Gerry German and Tina Patel). York:
Joseph Rowntree Foundation
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Originally called the ...
.
* 2006 – ''Taking A Stand: Gus John Speaks on Education, Race, Social Action and Civil Unrest 1980–2005''. Gus John Partnership; .
* 2007 – ''Emancipate Yourself…Choose Life!'' Essays on the 1807 Abolition of the Slave Trade Act and on gun and knife crime and gang activity in urban areas. Gus John Partnership Limited.
* 2007 – ''Born to be Great: A Charter on Promoting the Achievement of Black Caribbean Boys'',
National Union of Teachers
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.
* 2008 – ''Speaking Truth to Power – critical debate on Identity, Aesthetics and Ethnicity; a diversity of voices in theatre and the Arts in England'' (with Samina Zahir),
Arts Council England
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.
* 2010 – ''Time to Tell – the Grenada Massacre and After... Grenada Diary 14–25 December 1983''. London: Gus John Books.
* 2010 – ''The Case for a Learner’s Charter for Schools'' (with an introduction by
Chris Searle
Chris Searle (born 1 January 1944) is a British educator, poet, anti-racist activist and socialist. He has written widely on cricket, language, jazz, race and social justice, and has taught in Canada, England, Tobago, Mozambique and Grenada. He ...
). London: Gus John/
New Beacon Books
New Beacon Books is a British publishing house, bookshop, and international book service that specializes in Black British, Caribbean, African, African-American and Asian literature. Founded in 1966 by John La Rose and Sarah White, it was the fi ...
.
* 2011 – ''The New Cross Massacre Story''.
* 2011 – ''Moss Side 1981: More Than Just a Riot'' (with essays by
Michael Ignatieff
Michael Grant Ignatieff (; born May 12, 1947) is a Canadian author, academic and former politician who served as the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and Leader of the Official Opposition from 2008 until 2011. Known for his work as a histo ...
and
Paul Rock). Gus John Books; .
* 2014 – ''Report to the Solicitors Regulation Authority on the independent comparative case review of disproportionality in regulatory action and outcomes for BME solicitors'', SRA Birmingham, March 2014.
Articles
* 1991 – "A View from Britain", in
Abdul Alkalimat
Abdul Alkalimat (born Gerald Arthur McWorter, November 21, 1942) is an American professor of African-American studies and library and information science at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He is the author of several books, incl ...
(ed.), ''Perspectives on Black Liberation and Social Revolution – Malcolm X: Radical Tradition and a Legacy of Struggle''. Chicago: 21st Century Books.
* 1992 – "Education & the Community in a Metropolis", in
Michael Barber (ed.), ''Education in the Capital'', London:
Cassell Education.
References
External links
"Gus John – Education, Consultancy & Coaching" Official website.
Gus John profileat ''The Guardian''.
"The Issue of Contemporary Education Policies and their impact on black youth" talk at Oxford Symposium on the
August 2011 Riots: Context and Responses. University of Oxford podcasts.
"Talking to Professor Gus John"(interview), Spring 2014
''Inclusion Now'' 37 19 February 2014. Via
Issuu
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Founded in 2004 as a Danish startup, the company moved its headquarters to the United States in 2013.
...
.
"Black Civil Rights Heroes: Gus John" Black Fathers Support Group.
"Prof. Gus John's analysis of UK Civil Unrest" BBC News Channel, 9 August 2011. YouTube video.
* Elizabeth Pears
"Professor Gus John: Fighting The Higher Power" ''The Voice'', 21 March 2015.
"Dr. Gus Augustine (Gus) Gregory John"- African Diaspora in the United Kingdom (Europe) and Grenada (Caribbean)
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21st-century non-fiction writers
Academics of Coventry University
Alumni of the University of Oxford
Black British activists
Black British writers
British educational theorists
Grenadian emigrants to England
Grenadian male writers
Living people
Male non-fiction writers