HISTORIC PAN-AFRICAN/BLACK CONFERENCE IN RIO!

Nov 11, 2008 to Nov 13, 2008
Location: UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO
Latest Activity: Jan 20, 2020

This conference is for all Black people including Continental and Diasporic Africans, Dalits, Tribals, Aboriginal Australians, and Pacific Islanders! Ibraheem O. Muheeb Centre for Black African Arts and Civilization (CBAAC) National Theatre Iganmu, Lagos, Nigeria 2348077981151 2348023187605 234-1-4765635 TEACHING AND PROPAGATING AFRICAN HISTORY AND CULTURE TO THE DIASPORA AND TEACHING DIASPORA HISTORY AND CULTURE TO AFRICA, NOVEMBER 11-13 2008, STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS Africa has a very rich, vibrant and resilient culture. However, there is very little that is known by Africans at home and those overseas about themselves and the resultant linkages. The Atlantic slave trade marked the beginning of the dispersal of people of African descent to the new world. This has continued to have a debilitating effect on Africa and the African Diaspora's development. African history has for years been distorted in the same manner that her peoples had been dehumanized. The spread of African culture has brought about economic and cultural development of people outside Africa, unfortunately at Africa's expense. The attendant severance of every possible means of contacts impaired the depth of knowledge and exchange on the two divides “Africans on the continent and Africans in the Diaspora." The palpable lack of knowledge of the inherent potentialities for socio-economic ends has impeded the rise of Africa and Africans in the world's socio-economic and political spaces. While the Diaspora does not have the full grasp of the diverse potentials in Africa embedded in the richness of its history, culture and religion; Africans on the continent also appear not to be giving due consideration to the many derivable benefits from exploring the potentials of its external contents. It is the realization of the foregoing and the need to transcend these challenges that has made the organization of a colloquium to examine these issues very imperative. Thus, Centre for Black and African Arts and Civilization (CBAAC) in conjunction with Pan African Strategic and Policy Research Group (PANAFSTRAG) , Institute for Afro-Brazilian Studies (IPEAFRO), Brazil and the State University of Rio de Janeiro is orgainsing a colloquium to facilitate closer cultural links between continental and Diaspora Africa. For info on submitting papers contact: 1. tunde_babawale@ yahoo.com 2. akinalao@yahoo. com 3. isholawilliams@ yahoo.com 4. ibraheem_muheeb@ yahoo.com

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