Join Ufahamu and the African Studies Center during Black History Month on February 24th in reflecting on Amilcar Cabral's legacy fifty years after his passing.

Friday, February 24, 2023
11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
UCLA campus
Los Angeles , CA 90095

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Keynote address will be delivered by Professor James Pope, Winston-Salem State University (WSSU). Professor Pope specializes in comparative African and diasporic history and politics as well as international relations. In addition to cultivating a research agenda that maps radical resistance traditions and intellectual continuities in sociopolitical thought and cultural behavior, he has taught courses exploring various dimensions of African and Diasporic historical and contemporary experiences.

Professor Pope earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), and his Ph.D. from Howard University. Before he joined the faculty at WSSU, he taught at VCU in the Department of Africana Studies as well as Howard and Georgetown University.

PROGRAM

10:45-11:00, Welcome

11:00-12:15, Continuing Cabral, Zoom

Luís de Matos Monteiro da Fonseca, Fundação Amílcar Cabral

Claudia de La Cruz, The People’s Forum and the International People’s Assembly

12:15-12:45, Lunch Break

Catered by Messob Ethiopian Restaurant

12:45-1:45, Cabral and Pan-Africanism, Workshop

Ogadinma Kingsley Okakpu, UAW 2865 and All-African People’s Revolutionary Party

Najeeb Jones, Black Alliance for Peace and All-African People’s Revolutionary Party

1:45-2:45, Cabral in Theory and Practice, Graduate Student Panel

Jeannette Charles, “Return to the Source:” Contemporary Reconnection Between Africa and Afro-Venezuela, PhD in History at UCLA

Dylan Ashton, Cabral and Ngugi: Concepts of History and Revolution, MA in African Studies at UCLA

3-4, “Under the Mangrove Trees:” Amilcar Cabral as Critical Human Rights Consciousness, Keynote

Dr. James Pope, Associate Professor at Winston Salem State University and Africa World Now Project

About Ufahamu:

Ufahamu: A Journal of African Studies is a graduate student publication that was birthed out of the Africanist Activist Association (AAA) at UCLA in 1970. Named after the Swahili word for comprehension, understanding, or being, Ufahamu is an interdisciplinary journal committed to publishing views about social issues, addressing both the general reader and the scholar.  Ufahamu maintains its original vision of creating a forum and platform for Africans, people of African descent, students, academics, and non-academics to directly engage with the creation of new methodological and thematic spaces, and challenge misconceptions about Africa and the African diaspora.

For more info about Ufahamu, please visit https://international.ucla.edu/asc/ufahamu

To register, visit ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_x_notdx9Qd2bTHYbc0dRnQ

Cost : Free and open to the public; hybrid event

www.international.ucla.edu/africa

Sponsor(s): African Studies Center, Amilcar Cabral Foundation, Professor Robin D. G. Kelley, Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History, UCLA.