In this fourth discussion of Fanon Today: Reason and Revolt of the Wretched of the Earth (Daraja Press, 2021), Nigel C Gibson (editor) and Firoze Manji (publisher) will be discussing the relevance of Frantz Fanon today to struggles in Northern Ireland (Feargal Mac Ionnrachtaigh), Kenya (Wangui Kimari) and Pakistan (Ayyaz Malik).* Feargal Mac Ionnrachtaigh is […]
Alissa Trotz is Professor of Caribbean Studies at New College and Women and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto. She is also affiliate faculty at the Dame Nita Barrow Institute of Gender and Development Studies at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados. She is a member of Red Thread Women’s Organization […]
This is the third set of interviews / discussions with contributors to Fanon Today: Reason and Revolt of the Wretched of the Earth, edited by Nigel C. Gibson and published by Daraja Press (https://darajapress.com/publication/f…). This time we will be speaking with Toussaint Losier, S’bu Zikode, Léa Tosold. Toussaint Losier is the author of the chapter […]
This book is for all those – community workers, adult educators, social activists of every kind – who want to overcome pessimism and play a part in changing society in the direction of peace, justice and dignity for all human beings. As author Brian Murphy— the independent analyst, organizer, educator and writer, and former staff […]
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This is the second in the series of interviews with authors of chapters in the recently published Fanon Today: Reason and Revolt of the Wretched of the Earth. On this occasion, the editor – Nigel C. Gibson – and the publisher of Daraja Press, Firoze Manji discuss with authors Samah Jabr, Elizabeth Berger, Rosemere Fereira […]
This is the first of a series of launches of Fanon Today: Reason and Rationality of the Wretched of the Earth, published by Daraja Press in August 2021 (https://bit.ly/3aAmB1h). The editor of the book, Nigel C Gibson will be talking with one group of authors: Gene Reid, Lou Turner, Levi Gahman, Johannah-Rae Reyes , and […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought into sharp relief the deep structural problems affecting ‘non-white’, racialized workers in the core and periphery. Yet, many social scientific analyses of the global political economy, at least in the pre-COVID era, have been race neutral or wilfully indifferent to the persistent racial pattern of global inequalities. In this interview, […]
Call for Testimonies/Papers We would like to invite short papers for the forthcoming edited volume: “The White Savior Complex in International Development. Theory, Practice and Lived Experiences.” This anthology is to be published by Daraja Press (www.darajapress.com) in 2022. Uniting scholars and practitioners from around the world, this edited volume will address white saviorism as […]
Rene Loewenson speaks to Firoze Manji: ON THE PODCASTS THEMSELVES 1. Your interviews have covered a wide range of countries, social groups, organising spaces, areas of struggle – what have you perceived as common across them? what has been unique or different? a. There are many rich, interesting podcasts – If you had to name […]
Shemon Salam & Arturo Castillon discuss their new pamphlet on the meaning of the George Floyd Uprising (https://darajapress.com/…/insurgent-possibilities…)
This book launch is a conversation between Andrés and Brian Murphy.
Firoze Manji, publisher of Daraja Press, has been awarded the Nicolás Cristóbal Guillé Lifetime Achievement Award by the Caribbean Philosophical Association. He “is a medical worker (dentistry) who has devoted his life to radical, liberatory politics through creating publishing outlets for writers across the Global South, in addition to writing books of his own and many […]
I speak with Brown Motsau from the Bench Marks Foundation and Kea Feipato from AIDC in Cape Town, South Africa about the most important issues arising from the Indaba, what progress or otherwise has been made on the demand for communities to say no! and to discuss what have been the impact of COVID-19 both […]
I speak with Juliet Wanjira and Maryanne Kasina about COVID-19 in Nairobi. Juliet Wanjira is co-founder of the Mathare social justice centers, founder Matigari kids book club, member of the social justice movement working group and women in social justice centers.I am a grassroots human right defender passionate about advocating for dignified lives in informal settlements […]
You may recall that I spoke to Mostafa Henaway last May about the scale of infections and deaths due to Coronavirus, affecting migrant workers, frontline workers, and those living in crowded accommodation. I thought it would be helpful to have an update on the current situation in Montreal. Mostafa Henaway is a longtime community organizer […]
I speak with Dr Rene Loewenson, a Zimbabwean epidemiologist and director of Training and Research Support Centre. After teaching for a decade at the University of Zimbabwe Medical school, she led a health department in the national trade union congress in the 1990s, worked with the African continental trade union body in health programmes and is […]
Access to health technologies (vaccines, medicines, diagnostics, PPE, ventilators etc) depends on the ability for distributed local production. Nationalism and protectionism on these technologies has implied a sustained struggle to get sufficient access to meet population needs, and global measures such as CTAP (for voluntary patent pooling) and COVAX (for vaccine and technology pooling) have […]
Over the last few months we have seen the emergence of several successful mutations of COVID-19, famously in the UK where Rob Wallace named it the Bo-Jo virus! I speak with Rob Wallace to get a better understanding of the political and other conditions that favour the emergence of viable viruses. This is a follow […]
