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Michael Akintaro
Fearless seaman who stood up to gangsters and racists in London's wartime West End
Michael Akintaro, who has died aged 86, was one of the last remaining members of a pioneering generation of African seamen who helped lay the groundwork for the establishment of London's postwar black community. A Nigerian who settled in Britain in the 1930s, he was a prominent fighter in the little known racial conflict that developed with the arrival of the segregated American army during the second world war. His refusal to capitulate under racist attack made him a legend throughout the West End.
Born into a Yoruba farming family at Odeomu, near Ibadan, Akintaro grew up in Lagos. He attended grammar school but went to sea in 1932 following the death of his mother. He travelled to Newfoundland, Belgium and Holland before making Liverpool his base. In the Texas port of Galveston, he first encountered the brutality of segregation.
In 1937 he moved to London's East End where Africans scraped a living among the Jewish community, but soon broke away from the area's poverty and headed for the West End. There he worked as a nightclub caretaker and boilerman, supplementing his earnings with occasional crowd work in films. At the legendary Jig's Club where he rubbed shoulders with Jewish gamblers, he met visiting American entertainers including his hero, pianist Fats Waller.
Akintaro was a small man but had a fearsome reputation for argument. His bravery was famously employed when other black entrepreneurs were bullied by the predecessors of the Richardsons and the Krays.
A family man, renowned for his devotion to his wife, he married Stella Bronstein, the daughter of a Whitechapel tailor from Odessa whose family claimed kinship to Leon Trotsky. Along with their two children they became part of Camden Town's important West African community.
With the outbreak of the second world war he rejoined the merchant fleet. He was bound for Philadelphia when his ship broke into two after an air raid. Rescued from a lifeboat wearing only a singlet, he spent two weeks in an Aberdeen hospital before returning to sea. However further injury ended his seagoing and he finished war service in a munitions factory.
By 1943 the West End streets were thronged with American troops. They provided entrepreneurial locals with a new source of income and Akintaro's Soho credentials stood him in good stead when he befriended black servicemen out on the town. For a while he ran a modest operation in a small airless cellar off Denmark Street. With a radiogram for dancing and the unsuspecting American P/X stores as his source of liquor, he discovered black GIs cared little for decor provided they could dance with their chosen partner. Such social freedom was important because many white Americans responded with violence to the sight of inter-racial couples socialising.
Akintaro experienced his own share of bigotry and always retaliated in kind, whatever the odds. Insulted and pushed off the pavement on one occasion, his response led to his imprisonment, but this only enhanced his reputation within the growing black movement.
Following the war, Guyanese revolutionary George Padmore employed Akintaro as a foot-soldier in the fight against colonial rule. He helped distribute radical literature and met other anti-colonialists, including Padmore's financier, the redoubtable Nancy Cunard, and future Ghanaian president Kwame Nkrumah.
In 1953 he abandoned the nightlife. He joined the ministry of works as a hot water fitter, a job that took him from the air ministry to Buckingham Palace, and on retirement he was awarded the Imperial Service Medal.
Akintaro maintained the important Yoruba cultural practice of visiting friends. He claimed to prefer the company of traditional "age-group" associates, but was generous to younger ones, too. Blessed with impressive recall and an unusual capacity for historical analysis, he brought the past alive for his listeners, enlightening them to the struggle and sacrifices of his generation, even when the memory was sometimes painful.
He is survived by a son and daughter, three grandchildren and one great-granddaughter.
• Michael Olatunji Akintaro, activist, born June 2 1914; died September 15 2000
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