THE University and College Union (UCU) today slammed a university’s “threat” to cut a unique African history course and sack Britain’s first African-British professor of history as an “attack on black academia.”

UCU said that the University of Chichester wants to axe its history of Africa and the African diaspora masters and make Professor Hakim Adi redundant.

The move is part of a wider review which has put four permanent academic staff under threat of redundancy.