AVA Festival of Drawing

‘The African Diaspora within a Global Context’

• FRIDAY, 2ND JULY 2010 – 17:30 to 20:30
• The Royal Institute of International Affairs, Chatham House, 10 St James's Square, London SW1Y 4LE (Piccadilly Circus or Green Park Station)
  

For bookings, email: Tighisti Amare at: tamare@chathamhouse.org.uk Tel: 020 7957 5718

SNACKS & DRINKS SERVED - £10 DONATION

Chair:  Professor Thandika Mkandi, Chair of African Development, London School of Economics

Lectures:

• Dr Shihan De Silva Jaysuriya – ‘Africans in South Asia: A Forgotten People’
  Historic and contemporary role and contribution of Africans in the military, culture and music of the Indian subcontinent. Shihan De Silva Jaysuriya is the author of ‘African Identity in Asia :Cultural Effects of Forced Migration’, Senior Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies (University of London), and Rapporteur of UNESCO Slave Route Project (Paris).
  
• Gibril Faal – ‘Historical & Developmental Perspectives on the African Diaspora’
  Historical basis of the different African diasporas and their role in contemporary socio-economic development of the African continent. Gibril Faal is the author of paper on ‘Definition and Classification of the African Diaspora, Chairman of African Foundation for Development (AFFORD), and Board Member of the EC-UN Joint Migration & Development Initiative (Brussels).
  

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