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SUMMARY:The Pan-African Promise: Past\, Present\, Futures - Bob Brown
DTSTART:20181129T170000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Wolfson College is pleased to be hosting the inaugural event i
 n the Black Cantabs 2018-2019 Seminar Series. The event will be followed b
 y a reception.\n\nThe Cambridge University Ghanaian Society\, the Black Ca
 ntabs Research Society\, and the African Students and Scholars Union (West
 ern Europe) invite you to our forum under the broad theme: The Pan-African
  Promise: Past\, Present\, and Futures.\n\nBob Brown\, a Pan-Africanist an
 d civil rights advocate who worked closely with the late Martin Luther Kin
 g Jr\, will speak to a wide range of topics that reflect on the strategies
  Africans could deploy to bridge the ideological and cultural gaps between
  Africans on the continent and those in the diaspora. He will also reflect
  on and recapitulate the key themes of the sixtieth anniversary of the All
  African People’s Conference that Dr. Kwame Nkrumah organised in Accra i
 n 1958.\n\nAttempts will be made to reincarnate and reevaluate the reasons
  Nkrumah adduced for continental and inter-continental unity among African
 s\, and also reinforce the resolve of African leaders to combat neocolonia
 lism and forces of imperialism in the postcolonial world. Considering the 
 fact that the paths of international politics lead to Africa as well as ot
 her parts of the so-called third world countries\, reengaging the discours
 e on Pan-Africanism will signal a new understanding of the nuances of geop
 olitics and its ubiquitous impact on Africans. This will chart new path fo
 r Bob Brown to discuss the fluidity and dynamism of the philosophical unde
 rpinning of Pan-Africanism in contemporary geopolitics.\n\nThe emerging is
 sues of the illegality and criminality of the Trans-Atlantic slavery and o
 ther forms of modern slavery will also be discussed as ways of engaging is
 sues of human rights. Questions will be taken at the end of the discussion
 \, and the event will be followed by a drinks reception.\n\nThe Black Cant
 abs Society was co-founded by a Wolfson Visiting Scholar from Kenya\, Godf
 rey Sang. Find out more about them on their website and Facebook page.\n\n
 Bob Brown is a researcher and writer\, lecturer and organizer. He has serv
 ed in the student\, civil and human rights\, Pan-African and socialist\, p
 eace\, anti-repression and other movements for 55 years. He is a former me
 mber of the Chicago Chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality\, former di
 rector of the Midwest Office of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Commit
 tee\, supporter of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and the Lownde
 s County Freedom Organization\, and founder and former member of the Illin
 ois Chapter of the Black Panther Party. He has worked with and supported h
 undreds of local\, national and international movements\, organizations an
 d parties.
LOCATION:Lee Hall\, Wolfson College
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