TransAfrica Forum

12/16/2015

Listen to Africa Now! TODAY 1-2PM (EST) featuring Africa in Hip Hop...Searching for a Critical Pan African Consciousness with Dr. Will Boone on 89.3FM in the DMV or at www.wpfwfm.org

10/20/2015

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09/30/2015

George Houser, US ally of Southern African liberation struggles, is no more http://africasacountry.com/2015/09/george-houser-us-ally-of-southern-african-liberation-struggles-is-no-more/

The American activist, George Mills Houser, who passed away this month at 99 years of age, while not widely known, was central to civil rights and racial justice struggles in the United States, and…

08/25/2015

We Come as Friends at AFI http://silver.afi.com/Browsing/Movies/Details/m-0100000157

Academy Award®-nominated director Hubert Sauper’s WE COME AS FRIENDS is a modern odyssey – a dizzying, science fiction-like journey into the heart of Africa. At the moment when the Sudan, the continent’s biggest country, is being divided into two nations, an old “civilizing” pathology re-emerges – t…

04/24/2015

:April 22 Africa Now! Xenophobic Violence in South Africa and Bandung 60 Years Later with historian Dr. Gerald Horne, Ms. Sicel’mpilo Shange-Buthane of Amnesty Int'l in South Africa

Topics: Xenophobic Violence in South Africa and Bandung 60 Years Later. Guests: Dr. Gerald Horne, John J. and Rebecca Moores Professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston; and Ms. Sicel’mpilo Shange-Buthane, Amnesty International South Africa’s Executive Director.

04/10/2015

:Africa Now! of April 8 featuring Postscript to Nigeria’s Presidential Election with Mr. Nii Akuetteh Executive Director of the African Immigrant Caucus and Dr. Carl LeVan, Assistant Professor at School of International Service at American University http://transafrica.org/africa-now/2015/4/8/africa-now-april-8-2015-postscript-to-nigerias-pres-election

Topic: Postscript to Nigeria’s Presidential Election. Guests: Mr. Nii Akuetteh, an independent Africa policy analyst and Executive Director of the African Immigrant Caucus; and Dr. Carl LeVan, Assistant Professor at School of International Service at American University.

03/21/2015

Remember Sharpeville

South Africans mark 55 years since one of the worst apartheid-era mass killings, but other atrocities still forgotten.

03/12/2015

Topic: Ethiopian Film on Migration and Other New African Films in DC with filmmaker Theodros Teshome and Kishere Mbuya, CEO of afrikafé

03/09/2015

There is a tendency in studying the African American manifestation of the Black freedom struggle—generally referred to as the Civil Rights Movement—to view it solely from its dominant narrative. This dominant narrative is locked within what is considered to be a classicalphase, normally chronicled f…

03/05/2015

Yesterday's Africa Now! Uprising in Motion—Youth Movement in the DRC with Congolese youth activist Ben Kabamba of Youth For A New Society and Administrator for FILIMBI, and Maurice Carney of the Friends of the Congo http://transafrica.org/…/africa-now-march-4-2015-uprising-i…

Topic: Uprising in Motion—Youth Movement in the DRC with Mr. Ben Kabamba and Mr. Maurice Carney.

03/05/2015

Congo's Youth Rising in the Heart of Africa March 7 http://www.congoevents.org/…/congo-s-youth-rising-in-the-he…

Congolese youth leader Ben Kabamba will provide an update on the Telema (Rise Up) movement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. African youth from Senegal, Burkina Faso, Congo, and elsewhere on the continent have been rising up to demand a say in the affairs of their countries. They have drawn o…

03/03/2015