Despite this year’s uprisings, Africa is still often portrayed as a hopeless, famine-struck continent in need of rescue. In this session, leading thinkers will paint a more positive picture, and assess the hopes and prospects for African resistance in the twenty-first century.
Speakers
Samir Amin, Third World Forum (Senegal)
Patrick Bond, Centre for Civil Society, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Esther Stanford-Xosei, Pan-African Reparations Coalition in Europe
Firoze Manji, editor of Pambazuka News (Chair)
Time and venue
12:00-13:30; Amnesty
