About the event
Co-organised by the Centre for the Study of Democracy and Review of African Political Economy
Revolutionary Movements in Africa is an edited collection that looks at the radical left, political movements, and revolutionary struggle across Africa in the 1960s and 1970s. The volume examines the history of revolutionary change in Africa and unpicks the ideas and projects that have attempted to transform the continent.
Join the editors for the book launch:
Pascal Bianchini is a sociologist and independent researcher based in Senegal.
Ndongo Samba Sylla (joining by video link) is a Senegalese development economist. He is co-author of Africa’s Last Colonial Currency and author of The Fair Trade Scandal.
Leo Zeilig is an editor of the Review of African Political Economy and is the author of A Revolutionary for Our Time: The Walter Rodney Story.
Speakers
Tokunbo Oke (member of various progressive African and multiracial organisations) and Heike Becker (anthropologist focusing on the politics of memory, popular culture, activism, and social movements of resistance in southern Africa).
You can find out more about the book here.
Location
Room 500 (Westminster Forum), University of Westminster, 32-38 Wells St, W1T 3UW
