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INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR AMÍLCAR CABRAL’S THEORETICAL LEGACY

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The Amílcar Cabral Foundation and the Association of the Fighters for the Freedom of the Homeland (ACOLP), in partnership with the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and the public university of Cape Verde are honoured to invite you to the International Seminar on Amílcar Cabral’s Theoretical Legacy. This event fits in a larger program of celebration of the Foundation’s Patron Centenary (in September 2024) as well as of the candidacy process of Amílcar Cabral’s written documental legacy to an inscription in the World Memory program of UNESCO. The Seminar will have the participation of national and foreign historians and social scientists who have been studying the many aspects of Cabral’s theoretical work. The Seminar will take place both physically and online, at the UniCV platform and at the Amílcar Cabral Foundation’s Facebook page. You are all welcome.

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Message preview	Hi there, You are invited to a Zoom webinar. Topic: INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR AMÍLCAR CABRAL’S THEORETICAL LEGACY Register in advance for this webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NaifDPaSRbS1zldDZtY5HQ After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. ---------- Webinar Speakers REILAND RABAKA (We Form Part of a Specific Reality, Namely Africa Struggling Against Imperialism, Against Racism, and Against Colonialism @UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BOULDER) Reiland Rabaka is Professor of African, African American, and Caribbean Studies in the Department of Ethnic Studies and the Director of the Center for African & African American Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is also a Research Fellow in the College of Human Sciences at the University of South Africa (UNISA). Rabaka has published 16 books and more than 75 scholarly articles, book chapters, and essays. His books include Africana Critical Theory; Against Epistemic Apartheid: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Disciplinary Decadence of Sociology; Forms of Fanonism: Frantz Fanon’s Critical Theory and the Dialectics of Decolonization; Concepts of Cabralism: Amilcar Cabral and Africana Critical Theory; The Negritude Movement; The Routledge Handbook of Pan-Africanism; Du Bois: A Critical Introduction; Hip Hop’s Inheritance; Hip Hop’s Amnesia; The Hip Hop Movement; and Civil Rights Music. Academic journals Rabaka has published in several international academic journals. MANUEL VEIGA (Amílcar Cabral: Principles and Ideas that Illuminate, Empower and have an Impact (at a social, cultural and political level) @UNIVERSIDADE DE CABO VERDE) Manuel Veiga is a PhD in General Applied Linguistics, from the Aix-en-Provence University, in France (1988), with a dissertation on the Capeverdean Creole. He is a jubilate teacher of the public university of Cape Verde and a member of its council. He has coordinated its first Master in Creoule and Capeverdean Language. He was also one of the founders and the first director of the Amílcar Cabral Chair (2011-2015) and the director of the “Desafios” revue. He is, presently, a member of the Amílcar Cabral Foundation’s administration, having coordinated a preparatory study promoted by this institution, in order to base the candidacy to the registration of Amílcar Cabral’s written legacy to UNESCO’s Memory of the World Program. He is the focal point of the ACF to the UNESCO’s Capeverdean Committe. He was a general-director of the Culture and Cultural Patrimony Departments at the Ministry of Culture, president of the National Institute for Culture. PIERRE FRANKLIN TAVARES (Aristote and Cabral: Energeia and Culture: The Stagirite and the African ) Pierre Franklin Tavares was born in Dakar, Senegal and lives in Paris, France. He holds a PhD in Philosophy by the Paris I – Panthéon-Sorbonne University. He was a senior staff of the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations (SCIC) group (1991 – 2001), territorial director, general-director of the Propurgo group (2005 – 2008), of the PFT Investments Lda. and of the LUBEHEC Consulting Lda. He works as an international consultant. He was a town councillor and, since many years, he regularly collaborates with french TVs as a specialist on Africa, as well as with Radio Africa, as a lecturer and an analyst. He is the author of several essays on african societies, on the french society and on Cape Verde, having also published many articles, amongst which: Pierre Franklin Tavares is a member of the Research Group on the First European Colonization, he was a member of the Organization Committee of the International Conference on Slavery Abolitions (1994) CARLOS CARDOSO (On the possibility of comparing two giant’s intellectual legacies: Amílcar Cabral and Samir Amin (provisional title) @Amílcar Cabral Social Studies Centre, Guinea-Bissau) Carlos Cardoso is graduated in Social Anthropology and Philosophy, with a PhD in Philosophy by the Friedrich-Schiller University, in Germany. He holds a master in Social Anthropology by École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, France. He was director of the National Institute for Studies and Research / Instituto Nacional de Estudos e Pesquisa of Guinea-Bissau (INEP) and professor of Political Sociology at the Lusophone University of Lisbon, Portugal. Until recently, he was director of the Research Department of the Council for Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), in Dakar. He has recently founded the Amílcar Cabral Centre for Social Studies. Carlos Cardoso is author and co-author of several books and articles on issues regarding Guinea-Bissau and Africa, in History, Political Sociology and Social Anthropology. FIROZE MANJI (Amílcar Cabral and the politics of culture and identity @Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada) Firoze Manji, PhD, a Kenyan, is the publisher of Daraja Press ([http://www.darajapress.com)/]www.darajapress.com) and Adjunct Professor at the Institute of African Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. He is the recipient of the 2021 Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista Lifetime Achievement Award from the Caribbean Philosophical Association. He is a Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy, Berlin, Visiting Fellow at Kellogg College, University of Oxford (2001-2016) and Associate Fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies (http://www.ips-dc.org/about/assoc_fellows). He is the founder and former editor-in-chief of the prize-winning pan African social justice newsletter and website Pambazuka News ([http://www.pambazuka.org)/]www.pambazuka.org) and Pambazuka Press / Fahamu Books (www.pambazukapress.org / www.fahamubooks.org). He has previously worked as Africa Programme Director for Amnesty International, Chief Executive of the Aga Khan Foundation (UK)

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