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Canada in Africa - 300
years of Aid and Exploitation with Yves Engler
Tuesday, October
6 7:30 pm
UVic, Harry Hickman, Room
105
Sponsored by
Victoria Peace Coalition, UVic Social Justice Studies, Council of Canadians
Victoria Chapter, Social and Environmental Alliance, Friends of Western Sahara,
Barnard-Boecker Centre Foundation, Central America Support Committee (CASC),
Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid (CAIA), Victoria Friends of Cuba, Mining
Justice Action Committee (MJAC), African Awareness
Committee.
Wednesday, October 7
12:30 pm Camosun College, Lansdowne Campus Young Bldg. Room
216
Sponsored by Camosun College Faculty Association's Human
Rights and International Solidarity Committee and the Camosun African Awareness
Committee.
Canadian
author, Yves Engler, launches his latest critical overview of Canadian policy
towards the African continent. Based on an exhaustive look at the public record
as well as on-the-ground research, Canada in Africa documents Canadian
involvement in the transatlantic slave trade, "scramble for Africa", missionary
movement and European colonialism. Ottawa's promotion of neoliberal... economic
prescriptions, which have benefitted Canadian mining companies, is often
bitterly resisted by the anticolonial struggles of local
communities.
Engler
sheds light on Canada's part in the violence that has engulfed Somalia, Rwanda
and the Congo, while it shows indifference to the dire effects of climate change
on ever-growing numbers of Africans.
"This
should be required reading for every human with a conscience and all those that
desire to join the forces fighting for change." - Nnimmo Bassey, winner of the
Right Livelihood Award ("Alternative Nobel Prize") and author of To Cook a
Continent: Destructive Extraction and the Climate Crisis in
Africa.
Free
admission. Donations to assist the book tour.
--
Susan
Clarke
