OCTOBRE 31, 2019
Almadies, Hotêl Fleur de Lys
Morning
9:00am-10:45am
10:45am-11:15am
11:15am-1:00pm
1:00pm-2:30pm
Panel 1: Revolutionary actors in liberation struggles in Southern Africa
Kate ALEXANDER*
Heike BECKER: The Road to Durban: Workers’ struggles, student movements, and the resurgence of resistance politics in Namibia and South Africa
Harris DOUSEMETZIS: Dimitri Tsafendas, An African Revolutionary
Khanyilie MLOTSHWA: Theorising the 1960s ‘left turn’ in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe as the people’s politics
Coffee break
Panel 2: Revolutionary lefts in East Africa
Jean COPANS*
Adrian BROWNE: Uganda’s revolutionary left: politics and pedagogy from London to Mbale, 1959-1970
Patrick NORBERG: The Role of Marxism-Leninism in the University Students African Revolutionary Front's Opposition to Ujamaa
Zeyad EL ZABOLSY: Theoretical Advances in East-African Marxism in the 1970s
Lunch break
Afternoon
2:30pm-5:00pm
4:15pm-4:30pm
4:30pm-6:30pm
4:30pm-6:30pm
6:30pm-7:30pm
Panel 3: Movements from the revolutionary left in anglophone West Africa
Ibrahim ABDULLAH*
Georges KIEH: The Movement for Justice in Africa (MOJA) and State transformation in Liberia
Adam MAYER: Marxist Movements under Capitalist Hegemony in Nigeria
Baba AYE: The Left and the Labour Movement in Nigeria: 1963-1978
Coffee break
Panel 4: Movements from the revolutionary left in francophone West Africa
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Pascal BIANCHINI*
Issa NDIAYE: La gauche révolutionnaire en Afrique subsaharienne dans les années soixante et soixante-dix: le cas du Mali
Tatiana SMIRNOVA: Militer dans les structures étudiantes de la gauche révolutionnaire nigérienne
Ibrahima WANE: Luttes politiques au Sénégal dans les années 1970: le front artistique et littéraire
Cinema​
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Videos on former 1970s activists in Senegal, by Yannek Simalla
Coffee break
*Chairperson