Speaker - Explo Nani Kofi - African Liberation Support Campaign
This months speaker is editor of Kilombo Magazine which covers African
issues.
This was his second visit to Colchester TUC. He spoke this time about
class movements in Latin America and the situation currently in Africa
for such organisations.
He commented on the lack of mainstream media coverage on international
class movements and the need to build international solidarity with
Africa.
As part of his talk Kofi gave some of the background to his involvements
in class movements in his home country Ghana and his arrest by the
government in 1982 and his escape a year later.
As editor of “Kilombo” he welcomed comment on the articles
that were published in the magazine.
Following his talk there was time for questions on a range of topics
related to Africa.
Kofi was thanked for taking the time to come to Colchester TUC and
for his informative talk.
18.11.08
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Should any branch be interested in having Kofi as a speaker and hearing
about African issues, he can be contacted -
Phone - 07984 405307
e-mail kilombo.education@gmail.com
For more information on Kilombo - see
http://www.kilombo.org.uk/
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