Meet tonight, plus new African Revolutionary Writers course

The Point is to Change the World

Agostinho Neto	Eduardo Chivambo Mondlane	Kwame Nkrumah	Ousmane Sembene
Ahmed Ben Bella	Frantz Fanon	Mahmood Mamdani	Patrice Lumumba
Albert Luthuli	Frederick Douglass	Malcolm X	Samir Amin
Albert Memmi	Gamal Abdel Nasser	Martin Luther King	Sékou Touré
Amilcar Cabral	Govan Mvuyelwa Mbeki	Moses Mauane Kotane	Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje
Bantu Stephen Biko	Issa Shivji	Ngugi wa Thiong’o	Thomas Sankara
Cheikh Anta Diop	Jabulani “Mzala” Nxumalo	Oginga Odinga	Walter Rodney
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African Revolutionary Writers

Comrades, as your VC, I recently asked if you had any preference, now that our course on Philosophy and Religion is complete, between “The Classics” and “African Revolutionaries”, for the next course. The reply I got was: African Revolutionaries.

This is going to be a brand new ten-part course, so I am going to need some help. I have listed some African and a few “diaspora” revolutionary writers, above. I need more such names. I have suitable CU texts from some of the listed ones, but for the majority I do not have texts yet. So I need help with getting suitable texts.

Suitable means up to around 6,000 words (chapter length) but ideally nearer 2,000 words, or approximately the length of one of our General Secretary’s articles for Umsebenzi Online. Then, it must provide a clear topic for discussion, or plural topics.

Please reply to the Communist University, YCL or Johannnesburg Central lists with your ideas and suggestions about the “African Revoutionaries” course, or by Comment on the CU blog.

  

We meet tonight!

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We meet in the UJ Doornfontein Library. The next session will be as follows: 

• Date: 2 September (Thursday)
• Time: 17h00 sharp to 18h30 sharp
• Venue: The Library, University of Johannesburg , Doornfontein, Johannesburg (former Technikon Witwatersrand). Entrance on slip road by the bridge on Siemert Road.
• Topic: New Tools for Marxists, by Ron Press

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Channel [members]	Course Archive	Weeks	Last Posted
SADTU Pol Ed [440]	Development, Rural and Urban	7/10	31 August 2010
CU Africa [233]	Marx’s Capital, Volumes 1, 2 & 3	13/33	1 September 2010
CU [2668]	Philosophy and Religion	10/10	30 August 2010
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SADTU Pol Ed	Lenin’s The State & Revolution	6	June - July
	National Democratic Revolution	12	March - June
	Basics	10	January - March
SADTU Pol Schools	3-Day School	3 days	2-4 June
CU	No Woman, No Revolution	10	March - June
	Basics	10	January – March
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