On Monday, 12 May 2014 at 18h00 (!)<\/b>, AfricAvenir invites you to August Bebel Institute (Gallery)<\/b> for an exceptional reading by former pambazuka founder and editor Firoze Manji<\/b> who will read from the two new books he recently edited: In "Claim no Easy Victories – The Legacy of Amilcar Cabral"<\/b> numerous thinkers reflect on Amilcar Cabral, one of the most important and influential revolutionaries and independence theorists of the past decades. "Silence Would Be Treason – The Last Writing by Ken Saro Wiwa"<\/b> features letters and poems world-reknowned writer, poet and environmental activist Ken Saro Wiwa. Two important and fascinating books! Entrance is free.nVenue: August Bebel Institut<\/b>
M\u00fcllerstr. 163
13353 Berlin
030-4692 121\/122
S\/U Wedding (Ringbahn, U6, Bus 120)
Eintritt freinFiroze Manji<\/b>
Firoze Manji, is a Kenyan and is Head of CODESRIA\u2019s Documentation and Information Centre. He was the founder and former editor-in-chief of Pambazuka News (www.pambazuka.org<\/link>) and Pambazuka Press \/ Fahamu Books (www.pambazukapress.org<\/link>) (2000-2012), and founder and former executive director (1997-2010) of Fahamu \u2013 Networks for Social Justice (www.fahamu.org<\/link>). He has previously worked as Africa Programme Director for Amnesty International; Chief Executive of the Aga Khan Foundation (UK); Regional Representative for Health Sciences in Eastern and Southern Africa for the Canadian International Development Research Centre (IDRC); and research scientist at Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts and is Visiting Fellow at Kellogg College, University of Oxford; an Associate Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies (http:\/\/www.ips-dc.org<\/link>); a member of the Council of Advisors of The Rules (www.therules.org<\/link>); and Board member of the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (www.iatp.org<\/link>).<\/p>\n
He holds a PhD and MSc from the University of London, and BDS from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.nThe mentioned books can be bought and signed by Firoze Manji<\/b> directly on the evening or ordered through AfricAvenir in Berlin via email at info@africavenir.org<\/link>, Tel.: +49 (0)30-26934764 and Fax: +49 (0)3212\u20131258815.nClaim No Easy Victories: The Legacy of Am\u00edlcar Cabral. Edited by Firoze Manji & Bill Fletcher Jr. Dakar, CODESRIA and DARAJA Press, 2013, 518 p., ISBN-13: 978-2869785557 ISBN-10: 2869785550<\/b><\/p>\n
CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS: \u2028Senai Abraha \u2022 Makungu M. Akinyela \u2022 Kali Akuno \u2022 Samir Amin \u2022 David Austin \u2022 Ajamu Baraka \u2022 Jesse Benjamin \u2022 Angela Davis \u2022 Demba Moussa Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 \u2022 Jacques Depelchin \u2022 Mustafah Dhada \u2022 Jean-Pierre Diouf \u2022 Miguel de Barros \u2022Aziz Fall \u2022 Grant Farred \u2022 Bill Fletcher Jr \u2022 Mireille Fanon-Mend\u00e8s France \u2022 Hashim Gibril \u2022 Nigel C. Gibson \u2022 Patricia Godinho Gomes \u2022 Lewis Gordon \u2022 Adrian Harewood \u2022 Augusta Henriques \u2022 Wangui Kimari \u2022 Redy Wilson Lima \u2022 Ameth Lo \u2022 Richard A. Lobban, Jr \u2022 Filomeno Lopes \u2022 Brandon Lundy \u2022 Firoze Manji \u2022 Perry Mars \u2022 Bill Minter \u2022 Explo Nani-Kofi \u2022 Barney Pityana \u2022 Maria Poblet \u2022 Reiland Rabaka \u2022 Asha Rodney \u2022 Patricia Rodney \u2022 Carlos Schwarz \u2022 Helmi Sharawy \u2022 Ol\u00faf\u00e9mi T\u00e1\u00edw\u00f2 \u2022 Walter Turner \u2022 Stephanie Urdang \u2022 Chris Webb \u2022 Nigel Westmaas \u2022 Amrit Wilson<\/p>\n
2013 marks the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Amilcar Cabral, revolutionary, poet, liberation philosopher, and leader of the independence movement of Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde. Cabral\u2019s influence stretched well beyond the shores of West Africa. He had a profound influence on the pan-Africanist movement and the black liberation movement in the US. In this unique collection of essays contemporary thinkers from across Africa and\u2028internationally commemorate the anniversary of Cabral\u2019s assassination. nThey reflect on the legacy of this extraordinary individual and his relevance to contemporary struggles for selfdetermination and emancipation. His well-known phrase \u201cClaim no easy victories\u201d resonates today no less than it did during his lifetime. The volume comprises sections on Cabral\u2019s legacy; reflections on the relevance of his ideas; Cabral and the emancipation of women; Cabral and the pan-Africanists; culture and education; and Cabral\u2019s contribution to African American struggles. A selected bibliography provides an overview of Cabral\u2019s writings and of writings about Cabral.nSilence Would Be Treason: Last Writings of Ken Saro-Wiwa\u2028Ken Saro-Wiwa\u2028Trim. Ken Saro-Wiwa. size: 6.0\u2033 x 9.0\u2033 \u2013 Trade Paperback\u2028Page Count: 194; \u2028ISBN: 2869785577\u2028ISBN-13: 9782869785571\u2028<\/b><\/p>\n
A unique collection of the last writings of Ken Saro-Wiwa that reveals the indomitable mind and spirit of the legendary campaigner for justice in the last months before his execution. The letters and poems collected here are the last writings of a man on trial for his life. They were smuggled out of military detention in food baskets. Nigerian author and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, facing \u2028execution by the military regime on trumped-up charges, corresponded extensively with Irish nun and solidarity worker Majella McCarron during the last 18 months of his life. Clear and direct, these letters and poems are the last expression of a voice the regime was determined to silence: a voice for indigenous rights, environmental survival and democracy, many of those battles were won despite his death and whose voice comes alive today again in these extraordinary letters. Saro-Wiwa was a leading figure in the world of Nigerian and African letters, as novelist, playwright, non-fiction writer, author of children\u2019s books and television writer. He was also a major figure in Nigerian politics, when his support for the autonomy of his own, indigenous Ogoni people led to his removal from office. Following this Saro-Wiwa threw himself into business to provide the financial basis for the movement which from 1990 \u2028took the shape of MOSOP, the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People. MOSOP raised not only the issue of indigenous autonomy but also that of environmental survival in the face of massive oil and gas extraction in the Niger Delta and the associated oil leaks, gas flaring and other environmental crises threatening traditional livelihoods in the area. This was a direct challenge to those who benefited from the situation: the oil and gas multinationals and the Nigerian military government.<\/p>\n
Ken Saro-Wiwa, a Nigerian writer, television producer, environmental activist, and winner of the Right Livelihood Award and the Goldman Environmental Prize, was President of the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), and led a nonviolent campaign against the environmental degradation of land and waters by the operations of the multinational petroleum industry, especially Royal Dutch Shell. He was an outspoken critic of the Nigerian military government. His execution on 10 November 1995 by the Abacha regime provoked international outrage and resulted in Nigeria\u2019s suspension from the Commonwealth for over three years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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