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Pambazuka and the Carleton University Institute of African Studies invite you to a talk to celebrate Africa Liberation Day with Firoze Manji and Molly Kane, Pambazuka News. It takes place on Wednesday, 25 May at 6pm at the Arts Lounge, 1025 Dunton Tower, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.

Pambazuka and the Carleton University Institute of African Studies invite you to a talk to celebrate Africa Liberation Day

'African Awakenings and New Visions of Solidarity'

with Firoze Manji and Molly Kane, Pambazuka News

When: Wednesday, 25 May, 2011

Time: 6pm

Where: Arts Lounge, 1025 Dunton Tower, Carleton University ("DT" on campus map, http://www2.carleton.ca/campus/)

Firoze Manji, a Kenyan activist with more than 40 years experience in international development, health and human rights, is founder and former executive director (1997-2010) of Fahamu – Networks for Social Justice, a pan African organisation with bases in Kenya, Senegal, South Africa and the UK (www.fahamu.org). He is the founder and editor-in-chief of the prize-winning pan African social justice newsletter and website Pambazuka News, produced by a pan-African community of more than 2600 citizens and organisations - academics, policy makers, social activists, women's organisations, civil society organisations, writers, artists, poets, bloggers, and commentators, with a readership estimated at around 660,000 (www.pambazuka.org). He is also founder and editor-in-chief of Pambazuka Press (www.pambazukapress.org), the progressive pan-African publisher of voices from Africa and the global south.

Molly Kane, the former Executive Director of the Canadian social justice organization, Inter Pares, is an Ottawa-based activist with a background in international solidarity and social justice. Prior to joining the staff of Pambazuka News this year, she worked with ETC Group, an international NGO focusing on new technologies, corporate concentration, bio-diversity and human rights. She was an adjunct assistant professor in Global Development Studies at Queen's University in 2005-2006.

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