The Paulo Freire Project of the Centre for Adult Education is delighted to announce that Firoze Manji will be speaking informally about the book he co-edited, Claim no easy victories: The legacy of Amilcar Cabral, published last year to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the assassination of the revolutionary, poet, liberation philosopher, and leader of the independence movement of Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde.The book includes chapters by a number of prominent writers, academics and activists, including inter alia Angela Davis, Samir Amin, Barney Pityana, and Nigel Gibson. Manji will focus in particular (but not only) on Cabral's thinking on education.

Born in Kenya, Firoze Manji has worked as director of the Pan-African Baraza, head of the documentation and information centre of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), editor-in-chief of the prize-winning pan-African social justice newsletter and website, Pambazuka News, commissioning editor of Pambazuka Press, executive director (1997-2010) of Fahamu, Africa Programme Director for Amnesty International, Chief Executive of the Aga Khan Foundation (UK), and Regional Representative for Health Sciences in Eastern and Southern Africa for the Canadian International Development Research Centre (IDRC). Manji has published widely on health, social policy, human rights and political science, and authored and edited a wide range of books on social justice in Africa, including on women’s rights, trade justice, on China’s role in Africa and on the recent uprisings in Africa. He has also played a seminal role in publishing works related to pan-Africanism, through his involvement in Pambazuka Press, and Daraja Press, a not-for-profit collective.

See attached for more information on Manji, the book, and Amilcar Cabral (and the conncetion with Paulo Freire!!).

 DATE: 23rd September

TIME: 3pm

VENUE: Tea room/terrace/garden area of the Education Building, Golf Road campus, Pietermaritzburg

Copies of the book will be available for sale, and there will be free drinks and snacks!